Category: Quaker Reactions to the Revolutionary War
FROM RECORDS OF BRADFORD MONTHLY MEETING. (extracted by Gilbert Cope) Joshua Buffington complained of by Bradford Meeting, 5-17-1776, for entering into military exercise. 6-14-1776, hath declined the practice but offers no satisfaction. Disowned 7-12-1776....
FROM RECORDS OF CONCORD MONTHLY MEETING. (extracted by Gilbert Cope) George Gilpin, complained of by Concord Meeting 7-5-1775, for removing without a certificate and taking up arms. Disowned 10-4-1775. (He was afterward Colonel of...
FROM RECORDS OF GOSHEN MONTHLY MEETING. (extracted by Gilbert Cope) David Ashbridge, complained of by Newtown Meeting 11-10-1775, for joining in the military association and signing their articles. 2-9-1776: Declines meeting with those who...
FROM RECORDS OF KENNET MONTHLY MEETING. (extracted by Gilbert Cope) Abraham Taylor complained of by Kennet Meeting, 9-15-1774, “for accepting of the Office of a Collector of the Provincial Tax for hire and hath...
RECORDS OF NEW GARDEN MONTHLY MEETING. (Extracted by Gilbert Cope) Jesse Hays complained of 4-6-1776 for having joined with the people in learning the military exercise; disowned 7-4-1778 tor that and other misconduct David Thatcher,...
FROM RECORDS OF UWCHLAN MONTHLY MEETING. (Extracted by Gilbert Cope) 6-8-1775: “The Preparative meeting informed this Meeting that Richard Thomas hath so far deviated from our Peaceable Testimony again Wars ei rightings as not...