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In fair condition. Front board is nearly detached. Boards are quite worn with pitting, loss and exposure of cardboard. Rounded corners and delicate hinges in front and rear. Five raised bands on spine exhibit scuffing with slight creasing down center. Rear board is less worn with typical scuffing and edge wear. Belonging to the Library of Pennsgrove Mo. Meeting of Women Friends Time 5 Weeks Fine for detention 6 cts per week ex-Libris plaque on front pastedown. Front flyleaf has old hand signatures from 1754 and 1845. Interior is typically toned with light staining throughout. A few areas of foxing. Mild rippling from previous humidity exposure. Binding remains intact. Please see photos. Pearson, a Quaker researched tithes and their validity at their origin, denies the legality of them at the time of his writing (i.e. 1650). This is a later printing and formed the press of Quaker printers. This book has a early signature on the front flyleaf of an Abraham Rakestraw (1799-1874). Abraham Rakestraw, oldest son of Thomas and Mary Lippincott Rakestraw, was born near Morrestown, New Jersey, March 24,1799. He was only six years old when his parents, together with his grandparents-Abraham and Mary Morris Rakestraw-moved from New Jersey to a farm in Pennsylvania, near Londonderry Meeting House, Chester County. Early in the 1830's Thomas and Mary Rakestraw bought at Sheriff's sale a farm near Green Tree, Lancaster County. From here, on June 12, 1834, Abraham married Lydia Bushong, daughter of Henry and Sarah Gilbert Bushong. They in turn bought a farm in West Fallowfield Township, Chester County, not far from the village of Steelville. Here their seven children were born. Many years later two of their children-Eliza Rakestraw Whitson and Henry Rakestraw were members of this Club. We quote from his daughter Eliza Rakestraw Whiteson's recollections of her father. "Father was the oldest of the children, and Uncle William the youngest and the love between them was as the love of David and Jonathan. They both had a love for books and a longing for learning. so father quietly, patiently, perseveringly using every open avenue added little by little to his practical education. "It was as a Bible scholar that he was most unusual. He could repeat whole chapters from memory and numberless quotations giving chapter and verse. "Father was an earnest apostle of the Public Schools and spent both time and money in striving to improve them. He rarely rode past a school house without stopping for a little visit and hearing a class read. "He was a poet by nature and this sketch closes with lines written in 1833 after a severe drought had been broken by the welcome rain. "Though a birthright member of the Society of Friends, and a regular attender of their meetings, he felt at home in other churches and were occasion suited, attended their services and joined in their form of worship" The Rakestraw family were many miles out of the direct path of the Underground Railroad and could not take a part in its activities, but they were no less in sympathy with the cause and used free calico, free sugar and free molasses until the Emancipation Act made them all free. Abraham Rakestraw died December 9, 1874, at his home on the farm at Andrews Bridge, Lancaster County which he had purchased some years before. So great was the esteem of his friends and neighbors, that ninety-nine carriages followed his bier to its last resting place in Homeville burying ground. COLR1730BFGI-FORN-TUB0007 HKREVISION - 02/24. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers COLR1730BFGI
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