INDEX.

Abolitionists, Garrisonian, 87

After the "Separation," 195

Aldrich, Royal, reference to, 69

Ancestry and Boyhood, 17

Apostolic Christian, an, 7

Appendix, 226

Apprenticeship of E. H., 22

Atlee, Dr. Edwin A., E. H.'s letter to, Appendix B;

reference to, 166

Baltimore Y. M., E. H. attends, 44

Baptists, Southern, reference to, 94

Barclay's Apology, quotation from, 143-144

Bartram, John, reference to, 190;

sketch of, 190;

his supposed deism, 190-191

Beacon Controversy, the, 169-170

Berry, Mary, at Easton, Md., 37

Binns, Henry Byran, describes E. H.'s preaching, 212-218

Black people commended, 37

Bownas, Samuel (note), 18

Braithwaite, Anna, referred to, 49;

sketch of (note), 161;

writes to E. H., 162;

writes to Friend in Flushing, 163;

writes to E. H. from England, 165;

writes to E. H. from Kipp's Bay, 168;

advised by Jericho ministers and elders, 169;

late reference to "Hicksism," 170

Braithwaite, Isaac, reference to (note), 161;

reference to, 179-183

Braithwaite, J. Bevan (note), 164-170

Camp meetings, E. H. condemns, 104

Carpenter. E. H. apprenticed as, 22

Christ, Divinity of, 115, 116, 156

Christ as saviour, 156-157

Clarkson, Thomas, receives Hicks' pamphlet, 90

Clement of Alexandria, reference to, 106

Conflict, The American (note), 94

Cotton gin, invention of, 94

Court Crier, E. H. imitates, 62

Cropper, James (note), 89;

letter from E. H., 90

Dancing, opinion of, 22

Discipline, E. H.'s regard for, 29

Disownment and doctrine, 188

Disownments for doctrine, 190;

E. H. on, 191-193;

during slavery agitation, 87-88

Division, before the, 121

Doctrine, statement of by Philadelphia Meeting for Sufferings, 139

Dutchess County, separation in, 178

Early labors in ministry, 32

Easton, Md., letter from, 37

Election, E. H. on, 110

Evans, Jonathan, opposes E. H., 127;

clerk Meeting for Sufferings, 139;

expounds orthodox doctrine, 153

Exeter, Pa., E. H. writes letter from, 38

Family, the Hicks, 71;

E. H.'s statement about, 71;

children in, 72-73

First Trouble in Philadelphia, 126

Fisher, Samuel R., entertains E. H., 44

Flushing, O., E. H. meets opposition in, 50;

also (note), 50

Free Masonry, E. H. on, 103

Friends, Progressive (note), 88

Garrison, William Lloyd, on Society of Friends, 87

Gibbons, James S., is disowned, 87

Goldsmith, Oliver, extract from "Deserted Village," 68

Gould, Marcus T. C., publisher "The Quaker," 152-153

Greeley, Horace, quotation from, 94

Green, Dr. Jesse C., reference to, 211;

recollections of E. H., 211-212

Green Street Monthly Meeting, center of difficulty, 147-149

Grellett, Stephen, sketch of (note), 123;

questions orthodoxy of E. H., 123

Gurney, Joseph John, reference to, 165

Harris, Dr. J. Rendell, criticises E. H., 208

Heaven and hell, E. H. on, 110-111

Hicks, Abigail, daughter of E. H., 72;

picture of, facing, 97

Hicks, David, son of E. H., 72

Hicks, Edward, sketch of (note), 202;

estimate of E. H., 203

Hicks, Elias, apostolic Christian, 7;

his type of Quakerism, 7;

reading Scriptures, 12;

reference to old folks, 13;

objects to flower bed, 13;

sells wheat at low price to neighbors, 14;

favors disciplinary equality for women, 15;

birth, 18;

reference to parents, 11, 19;

death of mother, 20;

reference to singing and running horses, 20;

apprenticed to learn carpenter's trade, 22;

on dancing, 22-23;

on hunting, 23-24;

reference to possibly lost condition, 23;

statement regarding his marriage, 24;

marriage application in monthly meeting, 25;

takes up residence in Jericho, 26;

a surveyor, 27;

appears in the ministry, 28-29;

regard for discipline, 29;

recorded a minister, 30;

passes through military lines in Revolutionary War, 31;

makes first long religious journey, 32;

visits Nine Partners, Vermont, etc., 34;

visits New England, 35;

visits Philadelphia and Baltimore Yearly Meetings, 36;

first sermon against slavery, 36;

letter from Easton, Md., 37;

visit to states south of New York, 38;

visit to Canada, 40;

visit New England meetings, 42;

goes to Ohio, 43;

at Baltimore Y. M., 44;

starts on last long religious journey, 46;

meets opposition at Westland, 47;

experience at Brownsville, 47;

at Mt. Pleasant, O., 48-49;

attends Ohio Y. M., 49-50;

disturbance at Flushing, O., 50;

attends Indiana Y. M., 52;

trouble at West Grove, Pa., 53;

extent of his travels, 56;

ideas about the ministry, 57;

speaks of his own ministry, 58;

against premeditation, 59;

measuring the ministry, 60-61;

imitates court crier, 62;

advice touching meetings and ministry, 63;

is frequently indisposed, 64;

his Jericho property, 69;

statement about his wife, 71;

as a father, 72;

letters to his wife, 76-83;

on the slavery question, 84-94;

various opinions, 95;

on the joys of labor, 97;

ideas regarding railroads, 98;

ideas about Thanksgiving, 102;

opposes Freemasonry, 103;

some points of doctrine, 107-120;

has trouble in Philadelphia, 126-128;

writes letter to Philadelphia elders, 132;

in the time of unsettlement, 139-151;

three sermons reviewed, 152-160;

is visited by Anna Braithwaite, 162;

writes to Dr. Atlee, 164;

writes to Anna Braithwaite, 169;

in Dutchess County with Ann Jones, 171-176;

contact with T. Shillitoe, 184-185;

at Mt. Pleasant and Short Creek, O., 186-187;

disowned by Westbury and Jericho Monthly Meeting, 189;

ideas about disownment, 193-194;

at Rose and Hester Streets, New York, 195;

remarks on reception by Friends, 196;

assumes the humorous role, 196;

received by Friends after long western trip, 197;

death of wife, 198;

visits Dutchess County, 199;

preaches in statehouse, Albany, 200;

letter to Johnson Legg, 201;

his dying testimony, 204;

critics of, 202-210;

a logical thinker, 211;

his kindness to poor, 213-214;

deals with corn thief, 214;

his dying testimony against slavery, 214;

sufferings for peace principles, 215-216;

helps organize charity society, 216-217;

putting off harness, 218-225;

his last traveling minute, 220;

attends his last monthly meeting, 220-221;

suffers stroke of paralysis, 221;

his death, 221;

his funeral, 221;

last letter to Hugh Judge, 222

Hicks, Elias, Jr., son of E. H., 73

Hicks, Elizabeth, daughter of E. H., 72;

picture of, facing, 97 ...

Hicks, Sir Ellis, reference to, 17

Hicks Family, the, 71

Hicks, Jonathan, son of E. H., 73

Hicks, John, son of E. H., 72

Hicks, Jemima, wife of E. H., estimate of, 74-75;

letters to, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82;

death of, 198;

funeral of, 198-199

Hicks, Martha, daughter of E. H., 72;

picture of, facing, 97

Hicks, Sarah, daughter of E. H., 72

Hicks, Judge Thomas, great-grandfather E. H., 18;

befriends S. Bownas, 18

Hicksville, reference to, 66

Hicks, Valentine, son-in-law of E. H., reference to, 66;

President Long Island Railroad, 100;

picture of, facing, 97

Hodgson, W., reference to E. H.'s sentiments, 206

Home at Jericho, the, 66

Hopper, Isaac T., reference to disownment of, 87

Humor, E. H. indulges in, 196

Immortality, E. H. on, 112-114

Indiana Y. M., E. H. attends, 51

Inquirer, The Christian (note), 102

Introduction, 11

Jackson, Halliday, arrested at Ohio Y. M., 49;

statement about (note), 49

Jericho, home at, 66

Jericho Monthly Meeting, members at time of "separation," 188;

E. H. advises, 200

Jesus, death and resurrection of, 118-120

Johnson, Oliver, on abolition claims of Friends, 88

Jones, Ann, in Dutchess County, 171;

extracts from sermons, 171-172

Jones, George, reference to, 174-176

Judge, Hugh, sketch of (note), 221-222;

reference to, 221;

E. H.'s letter to, 222-225

Keith, George, sketch of (note), 19

Kennett Monthly Meeting, extract from minutes, 88

Kingston, Canada, E. H. writes letter from, 40

Labor, ideas about, 96-98

Lamb, blood of, 155

Lewis, Evan (note), 89

Liberator, the, quotations from, 87-88

Lloyd, Isaac, statement by, 154

Lost condition, reference to, 23

Lundy, Benjamin, sketch of (note), 86

Manchester Conference, proceedings of (note), 208;

quotation from, 208

Marriage of E. H., 25

Marriott, Charles, his disownment, 87

Meeting ministers and elders, a visiting committee, 36

Meeting for Sufferings, to control membership, 150

Merritt, Jesse, travels with E. H., 54;

is homesick, 54

Mifflin, Daniel, emancipates slaves, 84

Mifflin, Warner, emancipates slaves, 84;

presents memorial to Congress, 84;

reference to, 85

Mind, effect on body, 100

Minister, E. H. recorded as, 30

Ministry, E. H.'s first appearance in, 28;

ideas about, 57;

speaks of his own, 58;

measuring the, 60-61

Minute, E. H.'s last traveling, 220

Miraculous conception, the, 114, 194

Monthly Meeting, E. H. attends his last, 220-221

Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, reference to, 105

Mott, Adam (note), 35

Mott, James, Sr., reference to (note), 35;

writes E. H., 123;

criticises E. H., 205

Mott, James and Lucretia, reference to, 35

Mt. Pleasant, O., disturbance in meeting at, 48-49;

Yearly Meeting 1828 at, 49-50;

E. H. and T. Shillitoe at, 186

New England Y. M. visited by E. H., 35;

attended by English Friends, 183

New Jersey, Friends in, approve E. H., 196

New York Y. M., attended by English Friends, 183;

by T. Shillitoe, 1828, 183;

extract from minute of, 183;

T. Shillitoe objects to visitors in, 183

Nine Partners, sermon at, 123

Ohio Y. M. attended by E. H., 48-49, 186

Osborn, Charles, prays and preaches two hours, 50

Paine, Thomas, referred to, 117;

E. H. on, 117;

E. H. compared with, 167

Parker's, Hicks's sermons, extracts from, 92-93

Philadelphia Elders write E. H., 130-131

Philadelphia Meeting for Sufferings starts charge of E. H.'s unsoundness, 129;

issues statement of doctrine, 139-143

Pine Street Monthly Meeting offers affront to E. H., 126-127

Property, E. H.'s views about, 95-96

Quakerism, type of, 7

Quaker," "The, extracts from, 91, 96

Quaker creed, a sort of, 139, 143

Railroad, E. H. opposes, 99;

the Long Island, 99;

Baltimore and Ohio, 98-99;

the first (note), 99

Recollections, reminiscences and testimonies, 211-217

Religious journeys in 1828, 46

Routh, Martha, writes letter to E. H., 90

Roy, Rammouhan, sketch of (note), 206;

writes E. H., 207

Salvation, universal, 108-109

Salvation, vital, 159

Satan, 116

Schools, public, ideas about, 101

Seaman, Gideon, reference to, 50, 182

Seaman, Jemima, reference to, 24;

marries E. H., 25

Seaman, Captain John, moves to Long Island, 26

Seaman, Jonathan, father of Jemima, 26

Seaman, Lazarus, Puritan divine, 26

Sermons, length of, 65

Shillitoe, Thomas, reference to, 47;

sketch of (note), 181;

declines to visit E. H., 182;

refers to his traveling minute, 183-184;

goes west, 184;

converses with ferry keeper, 186;

at Mt. Pleasant, 186

Sin and transgression, 107

Singing, reference to, 20

Slavery, first sermon against, 36

Slavery question, the, 84-94;

Friends on, 85-94;

pamphlet by E. H. on, 93

Southern Q. M. members of, on E. H., 133-136

Stabler, Deborah and James, sketch of (note), 98

Tallack, William, refers to E. H.'s assertions, 206

Thanksgiving, E. H. on, 102-103

Thomas, Philip E., reference to, 98;

sketch of (note), 98

Three sermons reviewed, 152

Time of unsettlement, 139

Titus, Daniel, traveling companion of E. H., 40

Turner, Frederick Storrs, reference to, 122;

on E. H., 203-204

Unitarianism, E. H. on, 117;

in New England, 121

Unsoundness, charge of, 146

War, Revolutionary, E. H. passes military lines, 31;

E. H.'s "sufferings" during, 215-216

Westbury Monthly Meeting, members at the time of "separation," 188

Westbury and Jericho Monthly Meeting (note), 50;

orders E. H. home, 50;

reference to, 188;

membership of, 188;

disowns E. H., 189

Wharton, William, reference to, 207

Wheat, E. H. sells at low price, 14

Whitall, Joseph, reports E. H. unsound, 128

White, George F., influential in disownment of Isaac T. Hopper, 87;

on slave labor, 87;

attacks various organizations, 87

Whitman, Walt, estimation of E. H., 205;

reference to, 218-219;

hears E. H. preach, 219;

describes E. H.'s preaching, 213

Willets, Deborah (note), 178;

extract from letter, 179-180

Willets, Jacob (note), 178;

statement about division in meetings, 178

Willets, Joshua, son-in-law of E. H., 70

Willis, Edmund, traveling companion of E. H., 38

Willis, John, traveling companion of E. H., 32

Willis, Mary, reference to, 212;

her recollections of E. H., 212-213

Willis, Thomas and Phebe, oppose E. H., 124;

dealt with by Jericho Monthly Meeting, 125;

reference to, 182

Women, equality of, 15

Woolman, John, on slavery, 84

World, the, against mixing with, 103-104

APPENDIX.

A, Descendants of Elias Hicks, 226-228

B, Letter to Dr. Atlee, 229-233

C, The Portraits, 234

D, The Death Mask, 234

E, A Bit of Advertising, 235

F, Acknowledgment, 235

G, Sources of Information, 236-237