Volume. Notes in many hands, used variously as an account book and a commonplace book, containing material mainly relating to Quakers in Hull and Thorne.

Scope and Content

Including:

a) Rental of Mary Richardson [? for properties in Hull], 1734-1741

b) Biographical notes about the Richardson and Dearman families of Hull, covering c.1682-1792 [with one inserted sheet]

c) Cash account, 1763

d) Inventory of household furniture, with dates of purchase and cost, 1762

e) Ms. describing Samuel Fothergill's meeting with Admiral Pyrrel in Scarborough, 1770 [loose]

Reverse:

a) Transcription of poem, 'On a celebrated female Preacher of the People call'd Quakers', no date [18th century]

b) Transcription of poem, 'An Acrostick', no date [18th century]

c) Pencil sketches of leaves, no date

d) 'An Account of Publick Friends that Visited Thorne form the year 1763 as nearly as I can recollect their Names...', c.1781.

Many pages are blank and others are missing, having been cut from the volume.

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