Sarah Logan Fisher diaries

The diaries of Sarah Logan Fisher, wife of Thomas Fisher, Philadelphia Quaker merchant, detail domestic and family concerns, social and religious gatherings, and spiritual contemplation of a well-educated Quakeress. There is some account of the Fisher family's passive resistance to the Revolut...

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Main Author: Fisher, Sarah Logan 1751-1796 (Creator)
Collection:Sarah Logan Fisher Diaries
Collection Number:Am.06765
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
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Physical Description: 0.4 Linear feet 0.4 linear feet, 25 volumes
Summary: The diaries of Sarah Logan Fisher, wife of Thomas Fisher, Philadelphia Quaker merchant, detail domestic and family concerns, social and religious gatherings, and spiritual contemplation of a well-educated Quakeress. There is some account of the Fisher family's passive resistance to the Revolutionary government, and a single volume of religious meditations. In addition, Mrs. Logan reports from the loyalist perspective on events of her husband Thomas' exile in Virginia. Diaries, Nov. 30, 1776-June 18, 1778 published in P.M.H.B., 82 (1958).