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

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