Isaac Hicks; New York merchant and Quaker, 1767-1820

About this book

A biography of Isaac Hicks (1767-1820), a Quaker, whose activities as a businessman and a citizen in New York are studied to see the influences of a "... set of religious beliefs and practices of an individual acquired through early family and church training."-- (Foreword, p. [ix]). The biography also tells of his marriage to Sarah Doughty in 1790, and of his relations with his wife and sons.