New York Yearly Meeting, formalized in 1697, is an association of many local Quaker meetings in New York State, northern New Jersey, Connecticut and Vermont. In the 19th century, New York Meeting also ...

Roberta Strickler wandered by the bronze lion fountain in Reservoir Park and wondered why six Lancaster County men’s ...

what can be learnt from the Norwich-born 19th Century reformer? Her prison reform activism was inspired by her membership of the Society of Friends or Quakers, who interpret Christianity to mean ...

Other denominations included the Unitarians, the Quakers - both significant sources ... bishops and clergymen lacking in zeal. In the 19th century there were earnest efforts to correct these ...

Welsh people had been a significant part of the religious Quaker migration to the USA, but by the later 19th century areas such as Pennsylvania and Ohio saw a high economic demand for Welsh ...

In two hours, the documentary takes viewers on a journey from Utah, in the segment on the 19th-century exodus from ... to lift his ban on Quaker worship, a common restriction targeting what ...