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A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England as a form of Protestantism in the 17th century, and has spread throughout North America, Central America, Africa, and Australia. Some Quakers originally came to North America to spread their beliefs to the British colonists there, while others came to ...
Griffitts was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lived in that city for the entirety of her long life. Her parents were Thomas [1] and Mary Norris Griffitts, and she had a sister, Mary, and a brother, Isaac. As a granddaughter of the merchant Isaac Norris, Griffitts was a member of a prominent Pennsylvania Quaker family.
The Cadwalader House at 240 S. 4th Street, in Center City Philadelphia. John Cadwalader (1677–1734), the patriarch of the Cadwalader family, was born in Bala, Wales before coming to the Province of Pennsylvania in British America in 1697, seeking a place to practice the Quaker religion without repression.
The Clayton family is an old Quaker family that came to America with William Penn in 1682 and has been prominent politically, particularly in Pennsylvania and Delaware. In 1682 William Penn sailed for America with a large fleet of ships carrying immigrants. Perhaps most of these people were Quakers, but many were not.
John Bowne (1627–1695), the progenitor of the Bowne family in America, was a Quaker and an English immigrant residing in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. He is historically significant for his struggle for religious liberty.
Along with their three sons, Daniel (1694–1735), Thomas (1697–October 17, 1765) and William (1701–1748), and daughter Elizabeth (1699–1759), [3] they emigrated to America in 1703, arriving when Peter Stretch was 32. The Quaker Monthly Meeting at Philadelphia received the family in June 1703. [4] A daughter, Hannah, died as a child in 1708.
Sam Waterston, the American Actor, is a descendant of his son Freedom Lippincott through his mother, Alice. [6] Richard Lippincott (Loyalist), American Loyalist and British Army officer whom fled to Canada. Descended from son Remembrance.