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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Collection: | Sarah Logan Fisher Diaries |
Collection Number: | Am.06765 |
Format: | Manuscript |
Language: | English |
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0.4 Linear feet 0.4 linear feet, 25 volumes |
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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). |