Research in Progress

Research in Progress by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter The interest in Quaker ministers continues. Nancy L. Haines (22 University Drive, Natick MA 01760), a post-baccalaureate special student at Wellesley College, is studying the logistics of Quaker women traveling in the ministry within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1700-1750. John Oliver, Associate Professor of History at Malone College (Canton, OH 44709) is eager to hear from anyone with information about evangelical Quaker ministers, male or female, especially those from 1890 to 1939 who were trained in Cleveland, Ohio. Maria R. Mazzenga (4354 Farmhouse Lane, Fairfax, VA 22032; phone 703-323-4485), a doctoral student at Catholic University of America, has been studying the relationship between Quaker reform and evangelical revivalism in the eighteenth century, as shown in the writings of John Woolman and George Whitefield. A number of scholars are looking at Quakers in relation to Pennsylvania political history. Mary K. Geiter (Selwyn College, Cambridge, England CB3 9DQ) is studying the establishment of Pennsylvania within the English political context, 1680-1701. Christopher Heaton (P.O. Box 95, Honesdale, PA 18431-0095; phone 717-253-5174) of the University of Scranton is examining political strife within the Pennsylvania Quaker establishment due to the French and Indian Wars, with particular attention to the issue of pacifism. Daniel K. Richter, Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College (Carlisle , PA 17013), has been working on a series of articles and essays on Indians and Pennsylvanians after the Revolution, 1783-1815. His research was sponsored by an NEH summer stipend at the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies. Also in Native American history, Lawrence M. Hauptman (2 Sarafian Rd., New Paltz, NY 12561), Professor of History at SUNY/New Paltz, is using Quaker sources in preparing a book, "The Iroquois: The Civil War Years," to be published by Syracuse University Press. For her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Minnesota, Roberta Hill Whiteman (1296 Fifield Place, St. Paul, MN 55108) is writing a biography of Dr. Lillie Minoka Hill (1876-1952), adoptedt?) daughter of Dr. Joshua Gibbons Allen (a prominent Friend), a Mohawk, and a graduate of the Women's Medical College (1899). She would especially appreciate any information on Dr. Hill for the period 1860-1905 and her relationship to Dr. Allen. Quaker abolitionism is also a perennial topic of research. Lois Perry Meng (Route 1, Box 179, Chestertown, MD 21620), a graduate student at Washington College, has been investigating the development, 1677-1790, of the conviction among Maryland Quakers that they must free their slaves. Sally McMillen, Associate Professor of History at Davidson College (Davidson, NC 28036) is researching the reactions of northern and European women to life in the South, especially to the institution of slavery. Cynthia Stahler (99 Claremont Ave., #135, New York, NY 10027) is writing her divinity master's thesis for Union Theological Seminary on the best known link between abolitionism and feminism, studying the theology Research in Progress121 and activism of Lucretia Mott. Julie Winch, Assistant Professor of History (Black Studies) at the University of Massachusetts, Harbor Campus (Boston, MA 02125) is preparing a book-length biography of one of Mott's associates, James Forten (1766-1842), African-American businessman and social reformer. In the area of local and family history, Mark P. Myers (2204 Five Mile Line Road, Penfield, NY 14526) is investigating the development of the Joseph Pennock , Jr. farmstead, 1740-1900, in London Grove, PA, and its relationship to the local Quaker community, for a possible nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Tracy Winters (1315 W. 8th St., Wilmington, DE 19806) has been writing her master's thesis for the Winterthur Museum program at the University of Delaware on the economic history of the Charles W. Roberts family of East Goshen and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Also for the Winterthur program, Marisa Morra (4309 S. Creek Rd., Chadds Ford, PA 19317) is studying the relationship of kinship to the textiles distributed by Philadelphia Quaker merchant Richard Vaux (1751-1790). She is anxious to hear from anyone owning textiles handed down from the Vaux, Warder, Fisher, Drinker, and Perot families. Christopher Ray of Ray Museum Studios (607 Elm Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081...