Quaker Research in Progress

Abstract

QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Prepared by John and Barbara Curtis Amos Davidson, Westminster, MD, has been working for some time on a family history of the Quakei family of Elgar. The lives of members of tìiis family trace some of the history of the migrations of Friends from southern Chester County, Pennsylvania into Maryland Davidson has produced considerable information about Pipe Creek (MD) Meeting Persons having information that might be of interest to him may wish to write him at 4029 Geeting Rd, Westminster, MD 21157. A project involving English Quaker women in general in the 18th century , and Quaker women mimsters in particular, has been undertaken by Phyllis Mack, PhD, of the State University of New Jersey (Rutgers) She holds a T Wistar Brown Fellowship in Quaker Studies for die first semester , 1982-83, at Haverford College. Donald Kelley, Department of History at Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, is currently at work on a study of Quaker attitudes to natural science and to ecology m the 18th and early 19th centuries John Teahan, a member of the Religion Department at Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766, is preparing a study of three types of American mystics of die 20th century. He is examining the lives and writings of Alan Watts, Thomas Merton and Rufus Jones His analysis will be bodi philosophical and psychological. 70 ...