Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Post, Joseph

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Date

1843-09-15

Description

Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, September 15, 1843.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

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Identifier

601

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

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                                Westbury 9^th mo 15^th 1843
Dear Relatives
                           Mary has filled one sheet I do not know
that I shall have any thing [sic] worth putting on paper. As to
our wordly affairs we seem to going on much in the old way
except that it seems to be as difficult as has been or more
so to get means to meet all demands, Wheat crops pretty
good oats verry [sic] short . We have rain and cloudy weather in
abundance so that the grass is as green as we have it in the
spr^i^ng. we have our ground ready to sow our wheat but
have been waiting two days on account of wind it now blows
southeast fresh . it is also the week to get hay on the marsh
an unfavo^u^rable time . I suppose as you are now citezens [sic] you
care but little about these things . but as it is apart [sic] of
our occupation it frequently occupies our thoughts . We here [sic]
from the New York folks that buisness [sic] has improved generally
I saw Wells Allis on first day last he say they can get money
for their produce this year last year they could not much
I think I and P Gifford showed a good deal of Rushmore
in not concluding untill [sic] they got to Scipio about going
west^so that L.Post had not clothes with her she thought aunt P. was not going untill [sic] they got
their [sic]^
it ^appears^ that they had as leave Lydia Post should stay, as she
say, they did not invite her much . but when they come
back they appeared verry [sic] sorry we that she had not been
We here [sic] that J. Gifford ^[illegible] of^ your kindness being they received from
you no more than I suppose they did not expect so much
from those not of their faith as they are not of the liberal
order . Uncle David has been verry [sic] desirous to bring about
reckonciliation [sic] between the orthodox and us. he and
Stepen [sic] Rushmore has had an interview or two . how
far it will succeed I know not . It seems to me that their [sic]
is as much difference between some members of our
Society as their [sic] is between the orthodox and us. And if their [sic]
should be a reckonciliation [sic] between the parties and if there
should be a uniting and not and the present disposition continue
it will be of but little use . When Friends in the ministry
come amongst us , if they are acquainted , it seems they
like to go were [sic] they can have simpathizers [sic] as much as any of
us

(Page 2)

Joseph Brown had the meeting houses at Jericho . Jerusalem and
Cow Neck . but I suppose they could not be had in the unity
for abolition. I do not think their [sic] is much change in
the people about here. Our friends of the sectarian order
think there is an improvement as we are ^petty [sic]^ quiet and have
not had any one around to arouse us lately , I do not know
but that Long Island is as hard place for Antislavery to enter
as any I have heard of . We here [sic] Whithead Hicks has signed
the temperance pledge which is a new move for a Hicks
it may be the scales will fall frome [sic] the eyes of the
people after a while We have heard verry [sic] little from
about R. Hick,s visit to Peru but it appears to me that
she has been disappointed in not haveing [sic] more of the com=
=mittee to attend that Quarter with her . and I sonetimes
sometimes think she is disappoined [sic] in other respects
Some of the convention of colour at Buffalo showed their
Preistly order as much as any of the white order
it appears that the sp^i^rit of Priest craft is the same
wherever found wither in the White man the Black
man or the Quaker or in a woman . I think our friend
Rachel has changed as much on womans rights as any
subject she thinks the women have rights enough, that
she had rather the discipline was altered back than
that they have any more privelagess [sic] that the alteration
has not been for the better . Gideon Frost has returned , we
have not seen him , how he has succeeded in collecting debts
we know not , but am in hopes he has enough to pay
his debts and have some left. he came home with some
horses . I suppose he will have a cirtificate [sic] to our meeting
now as the New York folks have had his case befor the
judges and discharged it .      Uncle Henry and his daghters [sic]
seemed to want to say but little about Presyism or the
different views in their church as some of the family would
think . I do not think Uncle Henry is willing to acknowledge to
us that he is one although I beleave [sic] he attends with them

(Page 3)
they went to meeting with us two first day, Aunt Sarah came
up to see them as they were about leaving Lydia said to her
that Cornelia wanted to go to their meeting that day so that she
could ^tell^ mother Michel she had been to their meeting , Aunt
I said she thought of inviting them the day before when at
their house. But as we invited them on going to meeting to stop
if they chased. they concluded Mary said we gave them
choice which seemed rather unexpected Uncle H said
that when when [sic] he went to Rome he done as the [Romans?]
did. I suppose we shall get no blame for entertaining and
associating with them. Although they appear to me to be
what are termed the worlds people as much as any I meet
with any where .   Elicam Levi is now here and says he has
been buying 11 acres of plains in the plain lot south of Learning
in the northwest corner . Elkanor Wood has bought 220 acres
in the sourth west corner of the same lot of W^m Titus
which Friends disapprove of verry [sic] much but he seems
fixed he is now poor and proberbly [sic] will grow poorer
the plains seems to be settleing [sic] abut wither the present
generation will be benefited by it is some doubtful
to me . Elicam Levi hs the standard sent to him he
say Stephen Hicks disapproves of it . as it course so much
disun^i^ty that he antislavery movement all origonates [sic]
in the reson and will of man. he say he asked him
if John Woolman did not cause disunity yest [sic] but he
did not call such hard names . that several of the
states were on the point of pasing [sic] a law for the
abolition of slaves but the antislavery movement
has put it all back (as they the southerner were so
offended that they held on harder than ever. It does
requir [sic] a considerable degree of patience and charity to
cover the willful ignorance of such , who are as inlight
inlightened [sic] as they are ^&on other subjects^ to reason as they do
First day after meeting , our Friend Rachel held ofrth and when she speaks
reverlation [sic] she generally speaks well but when she seems to have

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some meaning on particular subjects I think she lets a
little of the creation. get in which she condemns so hard in other
she spoke against being enticed away by sinners that we should
be verry [sic] loth to be influenced by those that were transgreese [sic]
of the moral law, that we had no right to judge a person excep [sic]
by the moral law, for we could not tell what was his duty in
other respects

[Text in center of page, written upward]

Isaac Post
New York Rochester
                           NY

[Text in right margin]

*verrily [sic] our society
is not better than
others unless under
the influence of
the government of
Christ which we
ought to follow in
all things which
if do we shall not
be condemned for doing
benevolent deeds

with love to
all as if named
      Joseph Post

[Text at bottom of page, written normal]

she said a good deal ^about^ acting the hypocrit [sic] that we might conceal for awhile
but it would come out, Since meeting we here that Daniel
Thorn of Brooklyn has been whiping [sic] his wife, which is an [illegible]
for what Rachels concern for she seldom comes out with
any particular view without haveing [sic] herd something before
at least , this is my opinion I am frequently told . Oh thee
is jealous thee most [sic] not be so jealous . All Underwood say D. Thorn
justtifies [sic] himself and says that a man ought to ship his wife if she
does ^not^ mind there must be a head What are we coming to when
members of our society use such means to accomplish their ends *

Tags

Abolitionism; Agriculture; Family; Quakers

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Post, Joseph, “Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2893.

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