Scope and content Manuscript notes from Priestcraft Exposed ..., and manuscript copies of advertisements and articles relating to Spalding's business dealings, including real estate, mill work, and retail sales, mainly in Lockport, Niagara County, New York. Most of the advertisements cited appeared in the Niagara Courier. Also, a manuscript copy of Spalding's petition to the New York State Legislature for compensation for the interruption to his mill and other business holdings from 1838-1859, while the State...

Abstract

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, records, and publications related to the career of Lyman A. Spalding, a nineteenth-century Quaker merchant and abolitionist who lived in upstate New York. He was co-editor of the newspaper Plain Truth and established the newspaper Priestcraft Exposed and Primitive Christianity Defended.