Quaker History - period ended 9.15.2006

Quaker History/Witness/Speak Truth to Power/Question: Would you please give me the definition of the phrase, "truth to power"?/Arizona Daily Star/Tucson/AZ/USA/3-Sep-06//Titled "Speak Truth to Power: A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence," the pamphlet proposed a new approach to the Cold War. ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad/Moon, Simon/Westfield homes open for tour/Noblesville Ledger/Noblesville/IN /USA/8-Sep-06//... "Westfield has a wonderful Quaker history that's been lost over the years," she said. "I'm very blessed to be a part of it."......Shuck said that after Simon Moon, a town founder and a Quaker, built her home at 209 W. Main St. in the early 1800's, it hid runaway slaves. ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad/Top Five Moments/Ottawa Citizen/Ottawa/Ontario/Canada/3-Sep-06//... The Quaker Meeting House: A visit to the ancient religious building in Waynesville, Ohio, proved a highly relaxing -- almost spiritual -- experience. ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Underground Railroad/Guilford College/YES! Weekly's ten best significant years in GSO history/Yes! Weekly/Raleigh/NC/USA/5-Sep-06//... important years. Our civic character began to be shaped when the first Quaker settlers arrived some time around 1740. They worked ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Mather, Job/Wheeler, Peter/First Tompkins settlers faced a hard road/Ithaca Journal,/Ithaca/NY/USA/3-Sep-06//... One of the most graphic and interesting accounts of getting to Central New York is contained in Peter Wheeler's account of his life, published in 1839. Wheeler was born in Tuckertown, N.J., in 1789, a slave of Job Mather, a Quaker. When Mather and his wife died, Peter gained his freedom, but soon after that he was kidnapped and sold at auction. ...

Quaker History/Prophesy/Politics and Economics/Husband, Herman/It Wasn't Really About Whiskey/ChristianityToday.com/Chicago/IL/USA/5-Sep-06//... Also important to Hogeland's story is Herman Husband, who makes Brackenridge seem a sensible conformist. Born in the Maryland tidewater and raised a semi-devout Anglican slaveowner, Husband had a conversion experience under the preaching of George Whitefield that led him into Presbyterianism and then into the Society of Friends. He was also, it seems, an inveterate buyer of real estate. Husband moved to North Carolina in 1762, where he was soon expelled from the Quaker meeting for advocating the right of members to prophesy. After the expulsion, he turned with deeper attention to the interpretation of biblical writings, particularly the Book of Daniel, which he read as foretelling the founding of an ideal government . . . in North America. These biblical musings were interrupted—or, perhaps, enhanced—by the Regulator revolt in North Carolina. Husband pled for his backcountry neighbors to the wealthy Whig planters of the Carolina coast, begging for a system of justice, fair taxation, and competent administration. ...

Quaker History/Names///Rowing helps make Pim's good body/Trenton Times/Trenton/NJ/USA/9-Sep-06//WEST WINDSOR -- His name is Pim (an old Quaker handle that is his full given middle name and the one he goes by), and his wife is Pandy (a nickname she always ...

Quaker History/Legget, Aaron//'Sleepy Little' Mount Zephyr Wakes Up To Change/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/8-Sep-06//... Mount Zephyr was plotted in 1940 on 125 acres that were once part of George Washington's own Mount Zephyr farm.

According to research done by residents for the community's Web site, that 18th-century property originally consisted of 648 acres.

Aaron Leggett, a Quaker bachelor farmer who raised Merino sheep, purchased the land in the mid-1800s for between $2 and $16.56 per acre.. ...

Quaker History/Friendsville, TX//‘Trunk Lady’ makes past come alive/Daily News - Galveston County/Galveston/TX/USA/3-Sep-06//... Quaker colony

A weathered, antique trunk filled with clothing and household items — such as a gas lamp, razor strop and iron — accompanies McDonald as she shares the stories of “The only existing town in Texas that began as a Quaker colony.”

To jumpstart the trip back in time, McDonald begins a typical classroom visit by asking the children to “close their eyes and imagine what the place where they are right now might have looked like 100 years ago.”
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Quaker History/Free Quakers/Greene, Nathanael/Books column: Burnsville literary festival presents fascinating .../Asheville Citizen-Times/Asheville/NC/USA/9-Sep-06//... "I read till I was drenched in what was his (Greene's) idiom," Price says. The tension in Greene - his Quaker spirituality and military ferocity - comes to bear on the battlefield, where he was both impressed and horrified by British General Cornwallis' actions at Guilford Courthouse. Cornwallis had killed many of his own men when they'd been entangled with a force of American foes. ..

Quaker History/Dyer, Mary//Memorial herb garden honors women/Newport Daily News/Newport/RI/USA/1-Sep-06//... She then helped found Pocasset (Portsmouth), in 1638 with her followers, including Dyer of Newport. Dyer later became America's only woman Quaker martyr. ...

Quaker History/Chester Meeting//YESTERDAY'S Papers/facts and fancies/News of Delaware County/Chester/PA/USA/14-Sep-06//... Another school was built in 1791 on "The Great Road of Marple" (now South Sproul Road), in the southern part of the township. Records show that in 1791, Enoch Taylor and his wife, of Marple Township, conveyed to Joseph Rhoads and David Hall a quarter of an acre on the west side of "The Great Road of Marple" in trust for a school under the Chester Meeting of the Society of Friends.. ...

Quaker History/Business/Whaling/Penn, William/Lower resident protests Villas name on wildlife refuge/Press of Atlantic City/Atlantic City/NJ/USA/7-Sep-06//... Sheftz said his community has been around for 371 years. Town Bank was home to whalers as far back as 1635, he said, and famous Quaker and Pennsylvania founder William Penn is credited with giving Town Bank its name. Sheftz also points out that Town Bank is 141 years older than the United States of America, 163 years older than Lower Township, and 234 years older than Cape May.. ...

Quaker History/Business/Cadbury, John/Food for the God/The Statesman/New Delhi/India/Asia/7-Sep-06//... chocolatiers. 1824: John Cadbury, an English Quaker, began roasting and grinding chocolate beans to sell in his tea and coffee shop. ...

Quaker History/Business///How to Create a Logo/Entrepreneur/New York/NY/USA/2-Sep-06//... According to Priester, Quaker Oats modified the Quaker man on its package over a 10-year period to avoid undermining customer confidence. ...

Quaker History/Bowne, John/Feke, Hanna/New Historical Novel Tells of Manhattan’s First Families/Mass Media Distribution LLC/Ft. Lauderdale/FL/USA/7-Sep-06//... history. One of Resolved's duties is to arrest the Englishman John Bowne, a Calvinist, whose Quaker wife, Hannah Feke, is preaching. ...

Quaker History/Architecture/Plainfield Meeting/Magnificent houses of Plainfield are on display/Newark Star Ledger/Newark/NJ/USA/6-Sep-06//... and Wendy Burney, Quinn and Michelson will be among homeowners participating in the self-guided tour of 11 residences and the Society of Friends Meeting House. ...

Quaker History/Amish/Penn, William/Amish settlers arrive in Manitoba prepared to live off the grid .../Winnipeg Free Press/Winnepeg/Saskatchewan/Canada/3-Sep-06//... Interestingly, it was Quaker William Penn who first persuaded the Amish to leave Europe and settle in North America, starting in Pennsylvania, in the early ...

Quaker History///Historic stone bridge spans the ages/Trenton Times/Trenton/NJ/USA/14-Sep-06//PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- The historic Quaker Bridge on Quaker Road officially reopened yesterday following a nine-month closure prompted by Mercer County ...