Research in Progress

Articles and Publications131 Fisher, Elizabeth W., "Prophecies and Revelations: German Cabbalists in Early Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Magazine ofHistory and Biography, 1985, 109(3),299-334. Gerry, Thomas M.F., "From the Quakers to the Children of Peace: the Development of David Willson's Mystical Religion," University of Toronto Quarterly, 1984-85, 54(2), 200-216. Gerry, Thomas M.F., '"Amongst the Assemblies we Hope no More': David Willson's Writings on his Separation from the Quakers,"Journal of Canadian Studies, 1985, 20(2), 102-116. Woods, Randall B., and David A. Sloan, "Kansas Quakers and the 'Great Exodus': Conflicting Perceptions of Responsibility within a Nineteenth-century Reform Community," Historian, 1985 48(1), 24-40. The titles of the unpublished doctoral theses listed below have been taken from the data base for Dissertation Abstracts International, vol. 48, nos. 1-6 (July-December 1987): Brown, Marley Roberts: 'Among Weighty Friends': the Archaeology and Social History of the Jacob Mott Family, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1640-1800, 1987 Brown University, 966 pp. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young: The Family, Social and Religious Life of Margaret Fell, 1986 The University of Rochester, 443 pp. Whitman, Leanna Lee: Silks and Simplicity: A Study of Quaker Dress as Depicted in Portraits, 1718-1855, 1987 University of Pennsylvania, 340 pp. Pestana, Carla Gardina: Sectarianism in Colonial Massachusetts, 1987 University of California, 456 pp. Roher, Joseph Foreman: The Development of a Program of Evangelism in a Quaker Congregation, 1987 Drew University, 210 pp. Research in Progress Prepared by Claire B. Shetter Richard K. MacMaster reports on the Conference of the Association Française d'Études Américaines, in Chantilly, France, in May 1988. A workshop on the theme Pacifism and Religion in the two Revolutions included papers on the experience of Friends and Mennonites in both the American and French Revolutions . Jeanne-Henriette Louis' paper was on the 1791 petition presented by the Quakers to the National Assembly; Quaker women in the American Revolution was the subject of the paper by Laurie Volberg; and Frederic Lemare presented "La grande secousse quaker: les pacifistes violentes." Richard MacMaster 's topic was Mennonites in the American Revolution. 132Quaker History The subject of architecture is the interest of three scholars. The relationship between architectural configuration and performance is being studied in relation to Center Meeting House, Delaware, by Robert A. Guffin, 91 E. Main St., Newark, Delaware, who is a Fellow at Winterthur Museum, University of Delaware. Philip E. Pendleton, 1802 Hill Road, Reading, PA 19602, associated with the Oley Valley Heritage Association, Berks County, Pennsylvania, is preparing material on early vernacular architecture, and the social history and historical geography ofthe early Oley Valley. Dreck Wilson, 3324 Northampton St. NW, Washington, DC 20015, is making a study of the architect Julian Abele and the Institute for Colored Youth. Janine Biden, associated with WHYY-TV, Wilmington, Delaware, has prepared pictorial material on the underground railroad in Delaware, for a television documentary. Wayne K. Bodle, Box 311, Solebury, PA 18963, is preparing material for a paper on Jane Martin Bartram, a member of Gwynedd (PA) Monthly Meeting to about 1762, and later a Philadelphia shopkeeper. Mr. Bodle, a postdoctoral Fellow, is affiliated with the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies. James O. Bond is currently working on two studies: Indiana Quaker history in the Civil War period, and the early history of Newgarden Meeting in County Armagh, Ireland. His address is 739 Monroe St., Apt. 304, Rockville, MD 20850. Society and Politics in Southampton County, Virginia, 1840s-1850s is the subject of a dissertation being prepared by Gregory Bowen from Flinders University of South Australia. His address is 42 Pomona Road, Launcestown, Tasmania, Australia. His local address is 100 Radcliffe Rd., Newark, DE 19711. As part of a doctoral thesis relating to the life and work of George Bishop of Bristol, England (d. 1668), Maryann Castelucci would like to find a journal, diary or any papers of Bishop. If information is available about such materials, please contact her at The College of Staten Island, Dept. of English, 715 Ocean Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301. Kathryn Damiano, 2 Waterview Rd., West Chester, PA 19380, is working on her Ph.D. dissertation for Union Graduate School, and the subject is...