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17 unusual facts about Quakers


Bewley's

The Bewley family were Quakers who originated in France and moved to Ireland in the 18th century.

Cleng Peerson

This community was made up principally of Quakers, together with Haugeans, followers of the beliefs of Hans Nielsen Hauge, as well as a group having been influenced by the beliefs of German Rappites.

Edna Buckman Kearns

The Buckmans were members of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers.

Gloucester Hole

Suggestions include its use by the Shirenewton Quakers for storing tea, or for the storing of explosives by Brunel when the railway was built.

Handsworth, South Yorkshire

The Stayce family were Quakers, one of the new religious sects which surfaced in England after the English Civil War.

Inman Line

As Irish Quakers, the Richardsons were concerned about the poor conditions experienced by immigrants traveling to America.

Jacob Aldrich House

The Aldrich family were Quakers and their community included their homes, businesses including the Jacob Aldrich Farm (and Orchard) at 389 Aldrich Street which is a light colored brick home made in a kiln nearby on River Road.

Jeremiah Thompson

Jeremiah Thompson (1784-1835) was a New York merchant, ship owner, Quaker, officer in the New York Manumission Society (dedicated to freeing slaves), and co-founder (together with five other men, four of whom were also Quakers) including Isaac Wright in 1817 of the famous Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet).

John Van Buren

Because it was a capital case, Quakers (Anti-death penalty) were dismissed from the jury panel.

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.

Marriage certificate

Marriages performed according to the ceremonies of Quakers and Jews also continued to be recognised as legal marriages, and certificates were issued.

Quakers

In Kenya, Quakers founded Friends Bible Institute (now Friends Theological College) in Kaimosi, Kenya, in 1942.

St. Kevin's Church, Camden Row, Dublin

After the Reformation, although a Protestant cemetery, it had come by custom to be used by Catholics and the Quakers.

The Landlord's Game

Apart from commercial distribution in 1932, it spread by word of mouth and was played in slightly variant homemade versions over the years by Quakers, Georgists, university students, and others who became aware of it.

Tim Morehouse

His maternal grandmother was a Jewish immigrant who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s; she later joined the Quakers.

Universal Life Church

Church meetings typically allow all present to speak, a practice similar to the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, although these two groups were also never affiliated.

Welsh Tract

The Welsh Tract, also called the Welsh Barony, was a portion of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania settled largely by Welsh-speaking Quakers.


1652 in England

13 June - George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell in Westmorland, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Amy and Isaac Post

Isaac's brother, Joseph (30 November 1803 Westbury, New York - 17 January 1888), was also an abolitionist and had early differences with the Quakers, although they finally came around to his point of view.

Bathsheba Bowers

Bowers was one of twelve children of Quakers Benanuel Bowers and Elizabeth Dunster Bowers, the niece of Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard University.

Cabot Circus

On the opposite street is the Quakers Friars area, which houses Harvey Nichols having been opened by Dita Von Teese.

Constantine Overton

His first prosecution, during the English Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell, was by a Church of England priest who objected to the outdoor preaching of Quakers meeting outside the parish church of Cressage near Shrewsbury on 5 October 1656.

Ethnic groups in Syracuse, New York

Syracuse was an active center for the abolitionist movement, due in large part to the influence of Gerrit Smith and a group allied with him, mostly associated with the Unitarian Church and their pastor The Reverend Samuel May in Syracuse, as well as with Quakers in nearby Skaneateles, supported as well by abolitionists in many other religious congregations.

George Mosse

Mosse attended the Quaker Bootham School in York, England, whose teachers began to stimulate his intellectual curiosity, and where, according to his autobiography, he became aware of his homosexuality.

Giles Firmin

, 1656, 4to (against the quakers; the running title is Stablishing against Quaking; answered by Edward Burrough.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Stove, R. J., Prince of Music: Palestrina and His World, Quakers Hill Press, Sydney, 1990.

Good Faith Collaboration

Reagle explores the history of collaboration, touching on the methods of the Quakers, the World Brain envisaged by H. G. Wells and Paul Otlet's Universal Repository.

History of fair trade

In 1827 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a moral and economic boycott of slave-derived goods began with the formation of the "Free Produce Society", founded by Thomas M'Clintock and other abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Jeanne Henriette Louis

Following her PhD, Jeanne Henriette Louis became interested in peace movements and especially the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the Quakers of Nantucket, the neutrality of Acadia during the Franco-British wars, as well as the founding of Pennsylvania by William Penn.

John Bouvier

In 1802, his family, who were part of the Quakers (his mother was a member of the well-known Benezet family), emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia.

Juries in England and Wales

The right of Quakers and Moravians to affirm, rather than swear, when joining a jury was introduced under the Quakers and Moravians Act 1833, and later extended to those who were formerly Quakers or formerly Moravians under the Quakers and Moravians Act 1838.

New York Manumission Society

The Quakers of New York petitioned the First Congress (under the Constitution) for the abolition of the slave trade.

Osmotherley Friends Meeting House

Osmotherley Friends Meeting House is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), situated in the village of Osmotherley in North Yorkshire, England.

Penn Quakers men's basketball

The Quakers faced Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Michigan State in the national semifinals in Salt Lake City, Utah, but ultimately were met with defeat, 101–67.

Pennfield Parish, New Brunswick

Pennfield Parish was established in 1786: named by Pennsylvania Quakers for William Penn (1644-1718), English Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania: Pennfield Parish included Lepreau Parish until 1857.

Philadelphia Quakers

Philadelphia Phillies, an American baseball team originally known as the Philadelphia Quakers

Philip Stanhope Dodd

The fourth of these, on The Lawfulness of Judicial Oaths and on Perjury, preached at St. Paul's Cathedral 31 May 1807, produced A Reply to so much of a sermon by Philip Dodd as relates to the scruples of the Quakers against all swearing, by Joseph Gurney Bevan.

Quaker Meeting

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

Quakers and Moravians Act 1833

The Quakers and Moravians Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 49.) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Quakers in the Abolition Movement

Quaker colonists began questioning slavery in Barbados in the 1670s, but first openly denounced slavery in 1688, when four German Quakers, including Francis Daniel Pastorius, issued a protest from their recently established colony of Germantown, close to Philadelphia in the newly founded American colony of Pennsylvania.

Radway

Persecution of Radway's Quakers and the jailing of some led eventually to a small group emigrating in the 1680s to a Quaker colony in Gloucester County, West New Jersey.

Ralph Winston Fox

In the summer following graduation, Fox returned to Soviet Russia, this time as a worker with the Friends Relief Mission in Samara.

Richard Hubberthorne

Hubberthorne is generally overshadowed by more famous early Quakers like George Fox, James Nayler, and Edward Burrough.

Samuel Carpenter

Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania was named in honour of the birthplace of Samuel Carpenter "purchased 5,000 acres (20 km2), 4,200 acres (17 km2) within the present boundaries of the township. In 1709, Carpenter, then Treasurer of Pennsylvania, began to sell tracts of land to migrating Quakers. In 1717, Horsham Township was established as a municipal entity by a vote of the people."

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).

The Inner Light

Inner light, concept which many Quakers use to express their conscience, faith, and beliefs

The Religious Society of Free Quakers

Notable Free Quakers at the early meetings included Samuel Wetherill, who served as clerk and preacher; Timothy Matlack and his brother White Matlack; William Crispin; Colonel Clement Biddle and his brother Owen Biddle; Benjamin Say; Christopher Marshall; Joseph Warner; and Peter Thompson.

Thomas Bradbury

Daniel Defoe may be the author of "A Friendly Epistle by way of reproof from one of the people called Quakers, to T. B., a dealer in many words", 1715, 8vo (two editions in same year).