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5 unusual facts about Quaker Meeting


Quaker Meeting

Meeting for worship, a Quaker religious practice somewhat akin to a church service

Monthly meeting (or Area meeting in the UK), the basic organisational unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Friends meeting house, where Quaker Meetings for worship often take place

Samuel Rowland Fisher

Many Quakers and even some of his family opposed his strong stand against authority and the revolutionary fervor, and at one point he was threatened to be "read out of Meeting" (disowned).

She was tall and beautiful, and because Quakers at that time were restricted, as were many other denominations, to marrying "within the Meeting", her choices for marrying in the Newport area were limited.



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Airton

There is still a Quaker meeting house, a squatter's cottage on the village green and an old mill on the River Aire from which the village is named.

Christ Church, Philadelphia

American Revolutionary War leaders who attended Christ Church include George Washington, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross (after she had been read out of the Quaker meeting house to which she belonged for marrying John Ross, son of an assistant rector at Christ Church).

Marjorie Content

They continued to visit New Mexico together but settled on a farm in Doylestown, PA and were active in reviving the Quaker meeting there.

Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage and Cemetery

Their original Meeting House, built in 1719, was connected to a chain of Quaker Meeting Houses that were built along Great Road (near Union Village and Smithfield Road Historic District).

Thomas Ellwood

On a second visit in December 1659, when Thomas attended a Quaker meeting at a neighbouring farmhouse and made the acquaintance of Edward Burrough and James Nayler.