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	The Religious Society of Friends
		QUIP is Quakers Uniting In Publishing, a consortium of Quaker Publishers.
		Woodbridge and Vicinity - a History of New Jersey Quakers from 1686 to 1788
		The Quaker Tapestry is made in a form known as a narrative crewel embroidery.
	www.quaker.org (2597 words)

	Early Quaker History
		Quaker shopkeepers began to put what they believed were fair prices on all of the items in their stores and would not budge a bit on the downward or upward side.
		In 1768, a Quaker doctor, Thomas Dimsdale, was invited to Russia by Empress Catherine II to introduce vaccination against smallpox.
		Another Quaker doctor, Joseph Lister, is regarded as the father of antiseptic surgery.
	thorn.pair.com /earlyq.htm (2807 words)

	Quaker City String Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The men of Quaker City have used their creativity and innovative style to consistently be a top prize winner.
		Quaker City welcomes the opportunity to deliver a piece of Philadelphia tradition to all parts of the world.
		Quaker City is also deeply rooted within the Philadelphia community, constantly lending its support to areas of need and supplying a toe-tapping performance to various charitable events throughout the year.
	www.quakercitystringband.com /history.html (1283 words)

	PHMC: Pennsylvania History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The defeat of the French and Indian War alliance by 1760, the withdrawal of the French, the crushing of Chief Pontiac's Indian alliance in 1764, and the failure of all attempts by Indians and colonists to live side by side led the Indians to migrate westward, gradually leaving Pennsylvania.
		William Penn's heirs, who eventually abandoned Quakerism, were often in conflict with the Assembly, which was usually dominated by the Quakers until 1756.
		Quakers held their first meeting at Upland (now Chester) in 1675, and came to Pennsylvania in great numbers after William Penn received his Charter.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/pahist/quaker.asp?secid=31 (2231 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: The Religious Society of Friends - Quakers
		However, this rapid growth of the Quakers was greatly slowed by the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, which brought with it 20 years of religious persecution for the Friends.
		In 1689, the persecution of the Quakers was greatly diminished, due to the Toleration Act passed by William and Mary.
		Quaker worldwide membership is slowly growing at the present time, despite a trend of slightly decreasing membership in North America.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/quak.html (4141 words)

	A Glance at Quaker History
		Quakerism is not a novel or distinctive religion or cult.
		More than 13,000 Quakers were imprisoned between 1650 and 1687 as a result of their beliefs and practices growing out of newly found convictions.
		In England during those years, 338 Quakers died in penal institutions of wounds inflicted while attending their own meetings, while 198 were transported as slaves.
	www.sgmm.org /history/quaker.html (1313 words)

	Quaker Hill History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		During the early 19th century, Quaker Hill was at the center of the ever-increasing hostility between the slave states of the South and the free North.
		Born on August 21, 1789 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Thomas Garrett was one of the most prominent figures in the history of the Underground Railroad.
		A white Quaker, whose family hid runaway slaves in its Delaware County farmhouse when he was a child, Garrett was raised with the teachings of tolerance espoused by his church, one of the first to openly challenge the rights of slaveholders.
	www.quakerhillhistoric.org /subpages/UGRR.htm (761 words)

	Quaker history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quakers have been a significant part of the movements to abolish slavery, acknowledge the equal rights of women, and end warfare.
		In 1661, he and other leading Quakers made their first public profession of the peace testimony; it is unclear how universal pacifism was before then, many Quaker converts being sympathetic with the Puritan revolution or even members of the New Model Army, as James Nayler was.
		During the 20th century, Quakerism was marked, paradoxically, by movements toward unity and continuing divisions, meaning that by the end of the period, Quakers remained sharply divided.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quaker_history (4252 words)

	Haverford College Libraries
		An exploration of the roots of feminism in the history of the Quaker tradition.
		The first book of four in the most comprehensive history of Quakers, planned as the "Rowntree Series", which although it is dated, remains the starting place for serious research.
		A study of the evolution of Earlham's understanding of itself as a Quaker college, amid the paradoxes of Quaker history.
	www.haverford.edu /library/special/quakerbibliography.html (1904 words)

	Religious Society of Friends - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although Quakers throughout most of their history and in most parts of the world today consider Quakerism to be a Christian movement, some Friends (principally in the select Meetings in the United States and the United Kingdom) now consider themselves universalist, agnostic, atheist, pagan, or nontheist, or do not accept any religious label.
		Quakerism is often termed a mystical religion because of its emphasis on the personal experience of God rather than logic and reasoned theology.
		Quakers hold a strong sense of spiritual egalitarianism, including a belief in the spiritual equality of the sexes—which was remarkable for the mid-1600s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quakers (6606 words)

	A New Account of the History of The Society of Friends on Cape Cod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Quaker community in Sandwich was notable in the area for its high rate of literacy, about eighty percent, and its practice of female equality, a characteristic of all Friends from the beginning.
		Some idea of Quaker life at the time may be gained from viewing the Wing house, located about 350 yards northwest of the present meetinghouse, on Spring Hill Rd., and open to the public from June 15 to Sept. 15.
		Quakers still worship in the old way in the simple meetinghouses of the past, as the light leads them on to new causes against nuclear and radar pollution, and the Trident submarine as they continue to support their first and nearest neighbors of three centuries, the Wampanoag Indians.
	www.quakercapecod.org /quakerhistcc.htm (4808 words)

	History - Quaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A History of Quakers around Sheffield, Doncaster and Thorne from 1651 to 1730 - with some of their dissenting neighbours.
		A History of Quakers in York from 1651 to 1978.
		INDIAN TAPESTRY, AN Quaker threads in the history of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh from the 17th century to Independence.
	www.sessionsofyork.co.uk /books/hist_qkr.html (644 words)

	Selected books from History & Biography (Quakerbooks.org)
		By the author of numerous Quaker biographies, this book is a thought provoking account of the many Quaker women who have had a strong impact on American society.
		BY THOMAS D. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends, an introduction to Quaker beliefs and practices and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today.
		Anyone interested in American religious history, Quaker history, spiritual development, religious education and ministry will find this chronicle of Ferris's life a fascinating documntation of life in the 18th century and the moral and ethical development of a Quaker minister.
	www.quakerbooks.org /get/666000 (964 words)

	The History of Quakerism
		Her Quaker meeting of course promptly disowned her (at least in part because one of her sisters bore a fatherless child, and because some of her brothers had forsaken the Peace Testimony and joined the revolutionary army of George Washington).
		The Quakers had just freed themselves from involvement in human enslavement, a blot on our national history, by manumitting their fl slaves, and these people who had used to worship with their masters had set up their own churches such as the AME church.
		Quakers are usually quite benevolent folks, but there was a time when we got so excited with one another, that we tore a table to pieces.
	www.kouroo.info /page3.html (2695 words)

	Quaker branches-history
		Quakers today number some three hundred and thirty-eight thousand (2002 figures) in over sixty countries.
		Present-day Quakers range from groups emphasizing belief in scriptural inerrancy and the divinity of Christ to those with mystical and/or liberal tendencies, which emphasize the doctrine of the universal Light and the basic harmony of all deep religious experience.
		Friends were not impervious to the new ideas and schools of thought which abounded in the late eighteenth century, and individuals viewed what they saw as traditional Quakerism through the varying lenses of the Enlightenment, emerging liberalism and evangelical renewal.
	www.quakerinfo.org /quakerism/brancheshistory.html (1007 words)

	QUAKER HISTORY
		After many years in Springfield, the Quakers began to outgrow their rink and once again, they found themselves looking for a new home.
		The Quakers currently have 380 players registered for the 2002/2003 season.
		The Quakers are proud of their “family” atmosphere and proud of their accomplishments over the years.
	www.quakericehockey.homestead.com /files/QUAKER_HISTORY.htm (380 words)

	Quaker WebRing
		Merion Friends Meeting is a Quaker community in Merion Station, PA, Lower Merion Township, near Bala Cynwyd, Narberth, Wynnewood, and the Wynnefield and Overbrook sections of West Philadelphia.
		The School of the Spirit is a Quaker ministry of prayer and learning which operates the two-year On Being a Spiritual Nurturer Program, silent retreats and occasional other offerings.
		Quotations and e-texts from Quaker writings on the arts from all periods of Quaker history.
	u.webring.com /hub?ring=quakers (1162 words)

	History - Patuxent Friends Quaker Meeting
		The following summary of Quaker History in Southern Maryland was researched and written by Peter Rabenold.
		Among the Friends involved were the Sharpe family (Dr. Peter Sharpe was known as "the good Quaker physician of Calvert County") and Richard Johns (whose descendents became the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital; one of the Johns family was disowned by Baltimore Yearly Meeting for selling whiskey).
		She found that earlier Quakers had "planted te theory of the Inward Light deeply and extensively".
	www.patuxentfriends.org /history.htm (850 words)

	FGC Quaker Library: History & State of Quakerism
		A history of the conferences and gatherings that came together for the "Friends General Conference" of 1900.
		Hicksite Quakers were shedding their history of inwardness and isolation, and taking on a new identity as religious liberals, open to inquiry and difference of opinion, eager to involve themselves in the affairs of the world." From FGConnections.
		The tension in Quakers between their decorum and their inner exuberance is one of the things, for me at least, that makes Quakers and Quaker meetings extraordinarily un-boring." From FGConnections.
	www.fgcquaker.org /library/history (543 words)

	Quaker Resources on the Web - QuakerInfo.com
		Quakers in Brief (by David M. Murray-Rust) - Overview of the Quaker movement from 1650 to 1990; British focus.
		Digital Quaker Collection - Sophisticated digital collection of about 250 Quaker books, comprising about 60,000 pages, from the 17th century on, many of which are out of print.
		Quakers Uniting in Publications - Quaker publishers have gotten together and produced a Quaker Books in Print.
	www.quakerinfo.com /quaker.shtml (1329 words)

	Guernsey County, OH Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		From this beginning, the family took root here and his descendants are still among the leading families of the neighborhood, both in wealth and respectability.
		The families of these two pioneers intermarried in one or two instances, and are both represented in the neighborhood of Quaker City.
		Early in the history of the place, John Webster built a mill near the site of the town, which it is fair to presume, was only a corn grinder, which has long since disappeared.
	groups.msn.com /GuernseyCountyOHGenealogy/quakercityhistory1.msnw (454 words)

	Quakers
		Anglican authorities were affronted by the Quakers’ refusal to pay tithes or to attend services, and civil officials were disturbed by the Friends’ refusal to bear arms, participate in warfare, take oaths, or doff their hats before their betters.
		The term “Quaker” was used by those outside of the group and referred to the quaking movements made by some Friends during their services as they awaited divine inspiration.
		And for the Quakers the hardships were still greater, for, faithful to their testimony against war, they refused to supply any requisitions for purposes of war, or even to sell-anything to the army.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h486.html (514 words)

	History of Quaker Sqaure - The begininng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Quaker Oats was an innovative company in the packaged foods business, that changed the face of American food merchandising.
		In March of 1973, plans were announced to redevelop the vacant buildings, and on April 1, 1975, Quaker Square was opened with four shops and an ice cream parlor.
		Because of the shape of the silos, each room in the Crowne Plaza Quaker Square is totally round.
	www.quakersquare.com /history.htm (192 words)

	Quaker's history traces back to 1901
		Quaker's history traces back to 1901, when several American pioneers in oat milling came together to incorporate under the name The Quaker Oats Company.
		It all started in the late 1800s when three different Midwest milling companies had independently begun to process and sell high-quality oats for the consumer giving the American family a product that would be superior in quality to the oats sold in open barrels at general stores.
		Quaker (via The Quaker Oats Company) continues to be headquartered in Chicago.
	www.quakeroats.com /qfb_AboutUs/history.cfm (256 words)

	Quaker History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Quakers have been part of the European connection with New Zealand from the beginning.
		She was instrumental in the establishment of a nationwide network of Friends, and in encouraging the establishment of regular Meetings for Worship in a number of places.
		See: The Story of New Zealand Quakerism, M. West and R. Fawell, in NZ collection, Christchurch Public Library: a history of Quakerism in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
	www.quaker.org.nz /whoweare/history.htm (648 words)

	Friends Historical Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Friends Historical Association is an association devoted to the study, preservation and publication of material relating to the history of the Religious Society of Friends.
		The Annual Meeting in the Fall, and an historical pilgrimage in the Spring to an area associated with the history of Quakerism are important activities of the Association
		Many back issues of Quaker History and 5-year indexes are available at a cost of $7.50 each.
	www.haverford.edu /library/fha/fha.html (326 words)

	North Carolina Genealogy and History Bookstore: Quaker Ancestry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		States The Quakers are known for their deeply personal approach to spirituality.
		in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), those newly convinced, or for those who just like to read about the beginnings and progress of Quakers, The Quaker Reader is a basic for their library.
		with a short but essential history of the Quaker movement and a discussion of its organization and structure, particularly as it affects genealogical research.
	www.raleighresearch.com /quakers.html (1193 words)

	The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
		This makes the Quakers difficult to describe in a short essay.
		Some Quaker meetings at the liberal and evangelical ends of the spectrum differ significantly from what is covered here.
		Quaker Meetings (groups), service organizations, church finder and resources
	www.religioustolerance.org /quaker.htm (254 words)

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