Memoirs of the Life of David Ferris, FERRIS (David).

SARAH FERRIS'S COPY

an Approved Minister of the Society of Friends, late of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware. Revised and corrected from the original copy in manuscript.

First Edition. 8vo. [184 x 108 x 12 mm]. 99pp. Bound in contemporary quarter sheepskin, brown boards, smooth spine divided into three panels by gilt double fillets, plain endleaves, sprinkled edges. (Split in spine, headcaps chipped).
Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw, printer, published by John Simmons, south-west corner of Third and Tammany Streets, 1825.

Light browning and spotting but a good copy. Inscribed in ink inside the front cover "Sarah Ferris, 5 Mo[nth] 18th 1825" and at the head of the title "Rebecca Wilkinson Presented by E. F. C. 1884". With the posthumous bookplate of Emma Cooper Bancroft (1848-1929) & William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928), of Wilmington. Their daughter Sarah married Roger Clark in 1900, and the book passed to their son, Stephen Clark.

David Ferris (1707-1779) left Yale without a degree and was one of the early settlers in Wilmington, moving there in 1737. He concludes his memoir: "P.S. I do not think it possible that Friends will think the rough remarks and observations I have made, worth publishing; but they may possibly be of some use to my family, to whom, therefore, I leave them". Sarah Ferris was presumably a member of the family. The Memoirs was also published in York in 1825.

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