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From: "Elizabeth Coffin" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Re: QUAKER-ROOTS-D Digest V01 #43
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:41:34 -0600
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Thank you very much for the great explanation. It is helpful to us,
Elizabeth

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From: "Thomas Hamm" <>
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Re: QUAKER-ROOTS-D Digest V01 #43


> >Thomas, I appreciate your information on the Quaker pastors. I would
like
> >to know how you think John Coffin's "minister" title in Iowa in 1866 fits
> >in?
> >
> >I have John Coffin in Hinshaw's Iowa Quaker Meeting Records, Vol. 1,
> >Ackworth MM p.17 as follows:
> >
> >COFFIN.....
> >
> >7-28-1866 John M. made a minister
> >7-22-1868 John M. & fam., gct Greenwood MM, Ia.?
> >4-25-1874 John M. (minister) w. wife Martha D. & minor ch., Thos. N.,
Eva,
> >Franklin, Ellen, Cora M., John M., & Louisa J. rocf Greenwood MM (?)
> >dd.4-4-1874
> >
> >Does this mean that he moved to take on a church? Or do the certificates
> >indicate he just joined a meeting as a member?
> >I am glad you shared the title of your book as it seems to cover what was
> >happening with this family in Iowa at this time.
> >
> >Thank you so much, Elizabeth Coffin
>
>
> I'd read this as indicating that in 1866 John Coffin was recorded as
> a minister. That's too early for him to function as a pastor. The
> first Quaker pastorates date from about ten years later. It's
> possible, of course, that he moved to Greenwood because of a sense
> that he had some sort of call there. But he would not have been the
> pastor yet.
>
> T Hamm
>
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