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[40] [41] Their books were burned, and most of their property confiscated. [40] Quaker Mary Dyer led to execution on Boston Common, 1 June 1660. In 1660, English Quaker Mary Dyer was hanged near [42] Boston Common for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. [43] She was one of the four executed Quakers known as the ...
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations."
Friends Provident, life insurance company, founded by Quakers Samuel Tuke and Joseph Rowntree Furness Withy , British Marine Transport company, founded as Withy and Co., iron and steel shipbuilders, of West Hartlepool by Quaker brothers Henry Withy (1852–1922) and Edward Withy (1844–1927); grew to own in excess of a thousand ships
A small breakaway group, the Religious Society of Free Quakers, originally called "The Religious Society of Friends, by some styled the Free Quakers", was established on February 20, 1781 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Friends schools are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers.. Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to formal organizations that make up the Society of Friends.
A. Ernest Morgan, Should Quakers receive the Good Samaritan into their membership?, 1998; John Nicholson (Quaker writer), The place of prayer is a precious habitation, 1994; David Rush, They too are Quakers: a survey of 199 nontheist Friends; Daniel A. Seeger, Quaker universalists: their ministry among Friends and in the world, 1989
Western Friend recommended the book as a useful introduction to Quaker values for Christians of other denominations. [14] 2019. Beauty, Truth Life, and Love: Four Essentials for the Abundant Life ISBN 978-1640602021; 2019. Hope and Witness In Dangerous Times: Lessons from the Quakers on Blending Faith, Daily Life, and Activism ISBN 978-1789046199
Dorothy Ripley was a British Quaker that spent her life traveling in and between Britain and the United States of America. She was especially involved in ministering to Native Americans, prisoners, and African slaves. Theophilus Waldmeier was Swiss-born. He had a deeply religious upbringing and eventually joined the Quakers.