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1751

Quakers

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Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Rare Broadside entitled, “Extract from the Epistle of the Meeting for Sufferings in London, dated the Sixth Day of the Seventh Month, 1751,” 16 x 20.25, and labeled at the bottom, “Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Third-street, opposite the Work-House.” Broadside begins, “We think it may be useful and expedient to revive in your remembrance some of the Motives which induced our Ancient Friends to forbear the vulgar Appellations of the Months and Days, and to observe in their Conversations and Writings of such Names as were agreeable to Scripture, and the Practice of good Men therein recorded…our Ancient Friends were conscientiously concerned to refrain from the Use of those Names of Months and Days which had been ascribed by way of Honour to the Idols of the Heathen, and in Conformity to their false Worships…” Listed is “A Brief Account of the Origin of the Names of some Months of the Year, and of all the days of the Week, now customarily and commonly used.” After listing only the first eight months, explaining that the last four months “still retain their numerical Latin Names,” it is pointed out that “As the Idolatrous Romans thus gave Names to several of the Months in Honour of their pretended Deities: So the like Idolatry prevailing among our Saxon Ancestors, induced them to call the Days of the Week by the Name of the Idol which on that Day they peculiarly worshipped.” The origin of the names of the days of the week are explained as worshipping the Sun, the Moon, the idols Tuisco, Woden, and Thor, an ‘imaginary Goddess’ called Friga, and Saturn. The entire broadside has been professionally silked on for preservation, strengthening the previously torn and missing portions at the separated folds which affected some of the text. Written on the reverse in an unknown hand, are 18 unsigned lines with medical content, including illnesses and possible remedies, penned by a patient, and reads, in part: “I was taken with the Dropsey in the 10th Mo. 1783 and in November following I was so much swelled as to be almost incapable of helping myself–my Doctor had tried every thing without Success, except tapping which I refused.” In good condition, with aforementioned silking, paper loss along edges and folds, scattered toning, soiling and creasing, and light show-through from writing on reverse.
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