Journal of the Life, Travels – Daniel Stanton – 1772 | First Edition, Early Quaker Americana

A Journal of the Life, Travels, and Gospel Labours, of a Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, Daniel Stanton is a rare 1772 printing of Stanton’s journal. This scarce first edition recounts Stanton’s journeys as a Quaker minister, traveling across Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. His journal also describes voyages with Samuel Nottingham to Barbados, Antigua, and Tortola, together with observations of meetings held with Indigenous groups at Edgepelick (Brotherton).

Bound in the same volume is Some Memoirs of the Life of John Roberts, an account originally printed in 1766 by Henry Miller, recording the religious life of an English Friend connected with both Gloucestershire and early Pennsylvania. The combination of Stanton’s narrative with Roberts’s memoir makes this copy especially distinctive, presenting paired testimonies of Quaker experience on both sides of the Atlantic during the eighteenth century.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Journal of the Life, Travels, and Gospel Labours, of a Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, Daniel Stanton, Late of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania
• Author(s): Daniel Stanton; Daniel Roberts
• Publisher: Philadelphia, Joseph Crukshank; Philadelphia, Henry Miller, James Der Kinderen
• Edition:
  • Stanton – First edition, 1772
  • Roberts – fifth edition, 1776
• Format: (8vo), single volume
• Binding: Full leather
• Size: 7 in × 4.75 in (18 cm × 12 cm)
• Collation:
  • Stanton – xvii, [1], 184,4, [2]
• Illustrations:
• Contents Include:
  • Stanton’s travels through Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina
  • Meetings with Indigenous communities at Edgepelick/Brotherton
  • Voyages to Barbados, Antigua, and Tortola with Samuel Nottingham
  • Roberts’s memoir of his Quaker life and testimony
• Provenance: provenance
• Reference(s): Evans 12565; Sabin 90387

Condition:

Full leather binding shows rubbing at hinges and corners, yet remains solid. The text block is tight, and the pages, though evenly toned from age, are legible. Good.

Why Collect This?

• First edition Philadelphia Quaker imprint
• Bound with Roberts’s memoir for unique content pairing
• Early account of Quaker missions in the Caribbean

Item Number: # 29365