Jordan, Richard. A Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of Richard Jordan, A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends, Late of Newton, Gloucester County, New Jersey. Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Thomas Kite, 1829. [10561]
Brown cloth spine with plain boards, remnants of original paper title label to spine, 8 x 4 1/2 inches, edges worn with rounded corners, some nicks to the spine, generally tight with a couple of leaves partly pulled. Handmade paper label, "Belonging to the Library of friends in Smyrna price 33 cents," inside front. 172 pp., edges untrimmed, foxing throughout. Good. Hardcover.
Richard Jordan (1756-1826), b. Norfolk Co., Virginia; d. Newton, New Jersey. Jordan was a "well-traveled Quaker minister who lived in Virginia, North Carolina, and New Jersey...In 1781 he began to speak in the ministry and made visits to other Quakers in North Carolina. In 1797 he visited Northern states in his capacity as a minister, often calling upon government officials to procure justice for African Americans. In 1800 his calling as a minister took him across the Atlantic. For two years he traveled through England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Holland, and France, returning home in 1802." - Swarthmoredotedu.
Jordan then spent five years in Hartford, Connecticut, where he lamented the state of the New England Friends, and then moved to Newton, New Jersey, where he remained for the rest of his life.
