Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Quaker History - period ended 12.1.2006

Quaker History/War/US Civil War/Hatcher, Clinton/Years After Death, Young Confederate Soldier Honored/WJLA/Washington/DC/USA/26-Nov-06//... Although a Quaker, his letters indicate he was armed and was willing to use the gun to defend his home, his country, his Virginia. ...

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Quaker History/Slavery/Thompson, Jeremiah/ANorthern City's Southern Shame/New York Sun/New York/NY/USA/16-Nov-06//... In 1818, the Yorkshire-born Quaker merchant Jeremiah Thompson inaugurated the Black Ball Line, the first regularly scheduled transoceanic (and intracoastal ...

Quaker History/Slavery/New York Manumission Society/Thompson, Jeremiah/The Complex Legacy of an Enslaved Past/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/16-Nov-06//... To some extent the exhibition goes too far here, seeming to imply that mercantile prosperity was necessarily tainted by slavery, as in the case of Jeremiah Thompson, a Yorkshire-born merchant in woolen goods, whose packet shipping company, the wall text says, helped make New York such a “fulcrum of transatlantic cotton and sugar trading.” But not all commerce of the period should be drawn into the same web, and economic interests do not always determine opinion: Mr. Thompson, for example, was a Quaker and a member of the New York Manumission Society, which worked to emancipate black New Yorkers. ...

Quaker History/Slavery///It's all in the Jamestown family/Lynchburg News and Advance/Lynchburg/VA/USA/26-Nov-06//...“Because of our Quaker connections, and the issue of slavery, we scattered quite a bit,” said Marvin Peele. “A lot of them headed out to Ohio and Indiana. A ...

Quaker History/Religious Faith/Hoover, Herbert/Oh Say, Can You Swear on a Koran?/National Review Online/Washington/DC/USA/29-Nov-06//... A Senate website reports that Presidents Franklin Pierce and Herbert Hoover (a Quaker) didn’t swear at all, but rather affirmed. ...

Quaker History/Religious Diversity/Pennsylvania/Tolerance/Share the bounty with a stranger/Seattle Times/Seattle/WA/USA/23-Nov-06//... Virginia and Maryland. Only Pennsylvania with its Quaker sense of hospitality and tolerance was open to all religions. In subsequent ...

Quaker History/Quaker Schools/Whittier College/Broadoaks school marks 100th year with open auction/Whittier Daily News/Whittier/CA/USA/16-Nov-06//... and health services. Although now independent, the school's Quaker heritage remains palpable even today. Together, college students ...

Quaker History/Peace ///Gebhart: Catching up with Chester High grad 'Sister Jean'/The Delaware County Times/Chester/PA/USA/26-Nov-06//... "They made a great impression on me," she said. "They were Quakers. Peace-filled, gentle people who followed the Quaker tradition.". The Sisters of St. ...

Quaker History/Non-Violence/Distrainment/Pearson, John/Fascinating history of county’s militia/Cumberland News/Cumberland/England/UK/17-Nov-06//... In 1811, John Pearson, a tailor from Burgh-by-Sands refused to serve in the militia because of his Quaker beliefs; his goods were distrained to the value of £2 ...

Quaker History/Non-Violence//Venango has long military legacy/Oil City Derrick/Pittsburgh/PA/USA/19-Nov-06//... The War of 1812 saw local surveyor Samuel Dale appointed a colonel and then ordered to raise troops in the county. The effort was dismal enough, Michener said, that "after that, everyone realized that we weren't very military-minded, partly because Pennsylvania had a strong Quaker background.". ...

Quaker History/Haddon, Elizabeth//A promising first encounter/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/23-Nov-06//... Sometimes, as in the case of Elizabeth Haddon, a 21-year-old Quaker sent to oversee her father's land, smart settlers realized how much knowledge could be gained from the local aboriginal people.

Haddonfield's official seal depicts Mrs. Haddon-Estaugh meeting with the Lenni Lenape. ...

Quaker History/Gentleness/Franklin, Benjamin/Power of Persuasion Isn't in Stomping/Student Operated Press/Miami/FL/USA/22-Nov-06//The first leader is Benjamin Franklin. Though he has a multitude of impressive achievements to his credit, one can’t help being especially impressed with what Franklin achieved in self-discipline. For instance, when an old Quaker friend took him aside and told him that he was abrupt, abrasive and arrogant, he took definite steps to change.

In the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, he says, “I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertions of my own. I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix’d opinion, such as ‘certainly,’ ‘undoubtedly,’ etc., and I adopted, instead of them, ‘I conceive,’ ‘I apprehend,’ or ‘I imagine’ a thing to be so or so; or ‘ it appears so at the present.’” He also said that when another proposed something he thought was in error, “I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting abruptly.” He rather observed that in certain circumstances the person would be right, but in the present case there appeared to be some difference.. ….

Quaker History/Furniture///Poor health benches furniture maker/NewsOK.com/Oklahoma City/OK/USA/29-Nov-06//... Barnett copied a table and bench that was an original Quaker design.

"The table top folds back to become the bench back," he said. "It took up less room in little houses back then.". ...

Quaker History/Conscience/Penn, William/Legislating America’s Root of Religious Freedom/American Chronicle/Los Angeles/CA/USA/25-Nov-06//…Many of our Nation’s founders fled religious persecution abroad, cherishing in their hearts and minds the ideal of religious freedom.” This is what motivated William Penn (1644-1718), a Quaker, to come to his namesake Pennsylvania. Penn wrote in his The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience (1670) that,

Imposition, Restraint, and Persecution, for Matters relating to Conscience, directly invade the Divine Prerogative, and Divest the Almighty of a Due, proper to none besides himself. (86)

One of Penn’s arguments for liberty of conscience is not merely the protection of religious freedom for individuals, but the protection of that right for God. On the basis of eternity not temporality religious freedom honors the divine right to direct, guide, and influence man’s conscience. This makes violation of religious freedom doubly wrong, which is true of many bad acts.. …..

Quaker History/Business/Abolition/Thompson, Jeremiah/EXHIBITION REVIEW 'NEW YORK DIVIDED'; The Complex Legacy of an Enslaved Past/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/17-Nov-06//…To some extent the exhibition goes too far here, seeming to imply that mercantile prosperity was necessarily tainted by slavery, as in the case of Jeremiah Thompson, a Yorkshire-born merchant in woolen goods, whose packet shipping company, the wall text says, helped make New York such a “fulcrum of transatlantic cotton and sugar trading.” But not all commerce of the period should be drawn into the same web, and economic interests do not always determine opinion: Mr. Thompson, for example, was a Quaker and a member of the New York Manumission Society, which worked to emancipate black New Yorkers. ….

Quaker History///Barclay Farmstead group wins child-education honor/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/26-Nov-06//... The tour "takes place" in 1816, when the Thorns, a Quaker family of eight, lived in the three-story brick farmhouse they had recently built. ...

Quaker History///It's all in the Jamestown family/WSLS.com/Loudon/VA/USA/28-Nov-06//... Rich Square. “Because of our Quaker connections, and the issue of slavery, we scattered quite a bit,” said Marvin Peele. “A ...

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