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...S. state)|Pennsylvania]]. The team was founded in 1883 as the Philadelphia Quakers in the [[National League]]. * 1883-1889: Philadelphia Quakers

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...re profiting by war, and the view was eventually accepted.<ref>Wyatt, M. ''Quakers in Plymouth: A Friends' Meeting in context. Quacks. 2017. ch 3; Selleck ch ...anuel Swedenborg]]. These activities in no way reduced his standing among Quakers, which was high.<ref>Selleck. ch 4</ref>

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...ers emerged as the dominant political and religious faction in the colony. Quakers for a while controlled West Jersey, where they created landed estates<ref> ...s of religious freedom, and kept them, attracting many Quakers and others. Quakers took political control but were bitterly split on the funding of military o

...n Gifford, and his first writings were in pursuance of disputes with the [[Quakers]]. Following the [[Restoration]] he served several periods in prison, duri

...985. pp 9-18</ref><ref>Moore, R. The Light in their Consciences: the early Quakers in Britain 1646-1666. Pennsylvania State University. 2000. pp 6-12</ref> T .... Nayler's case is mentioned later, but by the time of his downfall other Quakers had modified their language. It was claimed that those who were in the Lig

...known for his writings in defence of the [[Religious Society of Friends]] (Quakers), which led him to be known as "Robert the Apologist". A member of the [[Cl ...native of Scotland, presented to the king, in 1675, his ''Apology for the Quakers''; a work as well drawn up as the subject could possibly admit. The dedicat

...y Press. 2019. chs 4 & %</ref> He was not immune to the persecution which Quakers suffered at the time. The legal proceedings in which Penn became involved ..., clear from this correspondence, that Penn, in common with other American Quakers, owned slaves and showed no qualms about it.<ref>Murphy, pp 184-5 and index

...hter of John and Catherine Gurney of [[Norwich]]. This was a prosperous [[Quakers|Quaker]] family, in which, however, the father indulged in shooting and fis ...bank closed, one result being that Joseph Fry was eventually "[[History of Quakers in Britain and Ireland#Quietism|disowned]]". Elizabeth continued to be sup

The bay is named after the [[Ashbridge family]], [[Quakers]], who were granted 600 acres in the region north of the Bay in 1794.

...hat they considered to be original [[Christianity]]. They earned the name "Quakers" for how members shook, or "quaked", reflecting their struggle against thei ...ed States]] [[Herbert Hoover]] and [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Quakers/Notable Quakers|others]].

...ions, the physical house of worship is usually called a '''church'''<ref>[[Quakers]]are an exception; they tend to refer to the building where they congregate

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...sion, and was never able to be self-supporting, but it reduced the cost to Quakers of supporting their members in need. The institution survived and eventual

...ar Disarmament]] are not fully pacifist. They include [[Mennonite]] and [[Quakers|Quaker]] organisations, anti-[[conscription]] organisations and those which

...ale charity work. Protestant groups especially set up soup kitchens; the [[Quakers]] were particularly well regarded in this role, although [[Methodists]] and ...For many years after the famine, families which had accepted help from the Quakers were often called 'Soupers' and regarded as traitors to the Catholic faith.

...istory]], and deals with Quakerism in Britain and Ireland after 1658. The Quakers had emerged as an organised movement between 1652 and 1654. By 1658 that m ...of stability through a restored monarchy was too strong.<ref>Reay, B. The Quakers and the English Revolution. Temple Smith. 1985. p 82</ref><ref>Moore</ref>

...as the founder of the [[Religious Society of Friends]], also known as the Quakers. Fox was raised in the [[Anglican Church]] but was dissatisfied with his s ...im to joing up with Fox. Within a short time he was seen, at least by non-Quakers, as Fox's equal in the Quaker movement<ref>Hill, C. The Experience of Defe

...svprots" /> whereas other denominations do not speak to the matter at all. Quakers, for example, don't have a collective view on the rightness or wrongness of

...ia. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for [[Quakers]], and named it for his father, adding the Latin ''sylvania'' meaning "Penn ===Quakers===

Imprisonment of [[George Fox]], founder of the [[Quakers]]

...tist]] and Methodist denominations. It had little impact on Anglicans, and Quakers. Unlike the [[Second Great Awakening]], that began about 1800 and which rea

*1660 Massachusetts: 4 Quakers hanged for heresy on Boston Common

...noncombatants helped out.<ref> Stephen W. Angell, "'Learn of the Heathen': Quakers and Indians in Southern New England, 1656-1676." ''Quaker History'' 2003 92

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...ighton Dillman Park, part of the common lands left to the community by the Quakers, and it overlooks the harbour where the first settlers built their homes. T

...ts. The Pennsylvania government was controlled by the Penn family and the Quakers, who refused to organize any military defense. In November 1747, Franklin ...oring the Act. His reputation damaged, Franklin enlisted prominent London Quakers to write on his behalf, and he began his own writing campaign in the London

...ts. The Pennsylvania government was controlled by the Penn family and the Quakers, who refused to organize any military defense. In November 1747, Franklin ...oring the Act. His reputation damaged, Franklin enlisted prominent London Quakers to write on his behalf, and he began his own writing campaign in the London

* Opper Peter Kent. "North Carolina Quakers: Reluctant Slaveholders". ''North Carolina Historical Review'' 52 (January

...Germans in Pennsylvania tried to stay out of the Revolution, just as many Quakers did, and when that failed, clung to the familiar connection rather than emb

After 1800 the Yankees (along with the Quakers) spearheaded most reform movements, including abolition, temperance, women'

...|left|100px|[[George Fox]], who founded the [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]], was imprisoned in Scarborough Castle in the seventeenth century.}} ...s most famous inmate was the founder of the [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]], [[George Fox]] (1624-1691), who was imprisoned there from April 1665 to

...ec]], the [[Sweden|Swedes]] and [[Finland|Finns]] of [[New Sweden]], the [[Quakers]] of [[Pennsylvania (U.S. state)|Pennsylvania]], the [[Puritans]] of [[New ...n who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, attracted an influx of [[Quakers]] and other immigrants with his policies of religious liberty and freehold

...|left|100px|[[George Fox]], who founded the [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]], was imprisoned in Scarborough Castle in the seventeenth century.}} ...s most famous inmate was the founder of the [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]], [[George Fox]] (1624-1691), who was imprisoned there from April 1665 to

...tions were grudgingly accepted in the Puritan communities for a time. Then Quakers were banned, and in 1660 four were hanged in Boston Common (''see'' [[Mary

...en by [[George Fox]] and [[Robert Barclay]].<ref> He was expelled from the Quakers in 1773 because of his military activities.</ref> While these provided for

...en by [[George Fox]] and [[Robert Barclay]].<ref> He was expelled from the Quakers in 1773 because of his military activities.</ref> While these provided for

...Methodism|Methodists]], [[Baptists]], [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterians]], [[Quakers]] and [[Congregationalism|Congregationalists]], although it was opposed by

...eveloper who Hoover recalled as "a severe man on the surface, but like all Quakers kindly at the bottom." ...[[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] communities, Hoover avoided the religious issue. (Quakers were themselves under attack as pacifists.) He supported [[prohibition]] te

...placed much less emphasis on education and business. In Pennsylvania the [[Quakers]] provided the merchant elite, with an economic stratification that contras

...the Christian Holy Trinity. In this way all Loyalists, Moderate Whigs, and Quakers were kept out of government. This peremptory action seemed appropriate to m

...(during the war), the Methodists, along with Scandinavian Lutherans. The Quakers were a small tight-knit group that was heavily Republican. The liturgical <td>Quakers</td>