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• The General History of the Quakers: Containing the Lives, Tenents, Sufferings, Tryals, Speeches and Letters of the Most Eminent Quakers, Both Men and Women, From the First Rise of That Sect Down to This Present Time (London: Printed for J. Dunton, 1696), by Gerardus Croese and George Keith (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Life of William Allen, With Selections From His Correspondence (Philadelphia: H. Longstreth, 1847), by William Allen
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• This Was Given to Major Generall Harrison and the Rest (London: Printed for T. Simmons, 1660), by Margaret Fell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Brief Account of My Exercises from My Childhood: Left With My Dear Daughter Guilielma Maria Penn (Philadelphia, 1848), by Mary Penington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of William Allen, With Selections From His Correspondence (Philadelphia: H. Longstreth, 1847), by William Allen
  • Volume 1: HTML at Earlham
  • Volume 2: HTML at Earlham

• The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society (partial serial archives)

• The Rise of Quakerism in Amsterdam, 1655-1665 (Swarthmore College monographs on Quaker history #4, 1938), by William I. Hull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Later Periods of Quakerism (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Rufus M. Jones
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers (2 volumes; London: L. Hinde, 1753), by Joseph Besse
  • Volume I: HTML and page images at Earlham
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• The Quakers in the American Colonies (London: Macmillan, 1911), by Rufus M. Jones, Isaac Sharpless, and Amelia M. Gummere (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rebel Saints (New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1925), by Mary Agnes Best
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• A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, Called Quakers, in New-England, for the Worshipping of God (1661), by Edward Burrough, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• The Truth Exalted in the Writings of That Eminent and Faithful Servant of Christ, John Burnyeat (London: Printed for T. Northcott, 1691), by John Burnyeat (HTML and page images at Earlham)

• Rhoda M. Coffin: Her Reminiscences, Addresses, Papers and Ancestry (New York: Grafton Press, 1910), by Rhoda M. Coffin, ed. by Mary Coffin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (second thousand; London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)

• God's Mighty Power Magnified, As Manifested and Revealed in His Faithful Handmaid Joan Vokins; Also Some Account of Her Exercises, Works of Faith, Labour of Love, and Great Travels in the Work of The Ministry, for the Good of Souls (new edition; Cockermouth, Cumbria: D. Fidler, 1871), by Joan Vokins, ed. by Oliver Sansom
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Friends Historical Association (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia (full serial archives)

• Letters, &c., of Early Friends, Illustrative of the History of the Society From Nearly its Origin to About the Period of George Fox's decease, With Documents Respecting its Early Discipline, Also Epistles of Counsel and Exhortation, &c. (London: Harvey and Darton, 1841), ed. by Abram Rawlinson Barclay (HTML and page images at Earlham)

• Religious Seekers and the Advent of Mormonism (c1988), by Dan Vogel (HTML at Signature Books)

• The General History of the Quakers: Containing the Lives, Tenents, Sufferings, Tryals, Speeches and Letters of the Most Eminent Quakers, Both Men and Women, From the First Rise of That Sect Down to This Present Time (London: Printed for J. Dunton, 1696), by Gerardus Croese and George Keith (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Extracts From the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, From 1759-1807, A.D. (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1889), by Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, ed. by Henry D. Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Lynchburg's Pioneer Quakers and Their Meeting House, 1754-1936 (first edition; Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Co., c1936), by Douglas Summers Brown (page images at HathiTrust)