The Life and Labors of Elias Hicks

The biography traces Elias Hicks's life from ancestry and boyhood through his emergence as a traveling minister, documenting extended journeys to meetings, domestic life at Jericho, family correspondence, and agricultural and surveying pursuits. It examines his theological views, approaches to ministry, and engagement with social issues including slavery, and recounts controversies that led to schism, disownment, and varied critical responses. Chapters collect sermons, letters, contemporaneous recollections, testimonies, and post-separation activities, concluding with remembrances and an appendix of documents that illuminate his beliefs, methods, and the conflicts that marked his later years.