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The Quakers came from North Carolina and to a lesser extent from Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. Their houses were built near the Coffin and Samuel Lindley homesteads. In 1815, Quakers at Blue River established a monthly meeting at the Hicksite Friends Meeting House, located just east of Salem. [4]
The "Free Quakers" were supporters of the American Revolutionary War, separated from the Society, and built their own meeting house in Philadelphia, at 5th & Arch Streets (1783). In 1827, the Great Separation divided Pennsylvania Quakers into two branches, Orthodox and Hicksite. Many individual meetings also separated, but one branch generally ...
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." [2]: 1
Friends General Conference (FGC) is an association of Quakers in the United States and Canada made up of 16 yearly meetings and 12 autonomous monthly meetings. [1] "Monthly meetings" are what Quakers call congregations; "yearly meetings" are organizations of monthly meetings within a geographic region. FGC was founded in 1900. [2]
Leek Quaker Meeting (1848), Staffordshire [3] Lewes Friends Meeting House, East Sussex, listed Grade II; Littlehampton Friends Meeting House, West Sussex, listed Grade II; Osmotherley Friends Meeting House (1723), North Yorkshire, listed Grade II; Stafford Quaker Meeting (1730), Staffordshire, a listed building [4]
Some Liberal Quaker yearly meetings are members of ecumenical pan-Christian organisations, which include Protestant and Orthodox churches—for example Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is a member of the National Council of Churches. [168]
Senator Party State Term Notes Start End Length of service (days) William Windom: Republican: Minnesota: July 15, 1870: January 22, 1871: 191 days Successor qualified [1]: March 4, 1871
Sidcot School, near Weston-super-Mare, England, "founded in 1699 and administered on the Quaker principles of truth, integrity, respect, simplicity, equality, and sustainability". [14] The current institution was (re)founded in 1808. Non-Friends schools with Friends connections