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{{rpr|Quakers}} - 13 September 2007

...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>

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...ecclesiastical traditions. The diversity of this view extends from early [[Quakers]], to later [[Unitarians]], to as far as within the traditional Catholic an

...re a diverse group, coming from denominations which included Methodists, [[Quakers]], [[Congregationalists]], other dissenters and Anglicans (some of whom inc

...Queens, one fifth of the people were [[Quaker]]s. Ostensibly neutral, the Quakers in fact were comfortable with the royal regime that had protected them for

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...status, and also placed religious restrictions, specifically preventing [[Quakers]] from becoming freemen.<!-- <ref name=plymlegal/>---> Freemen status was

...t as the Anglicans, but in the end other protestant sects, including the [[Quakers]] were allowed to flourish. After the Restoration there was a brief period

...but not insignificant, include the [[Religious Society of Friends]] (the "Quakers") and the [[Salvation Army]] — both founded in England. There are also Af

...d from a small but outspoken abolitionist movement, led by New Englanders, Quakers and free blacks, including [[William Lloyd Garrison]], [[Frederick Douglass