"Rememb'ring Our Time and Work is the Lords": The Experiences of Quakers on the Eighteenth-century Pennsylvania FrontierSusquehanna University Press, 2005 - 251 páginas Pennsylvania's role in the development of American culture and society has received an increasing amount of attention in the past two decades, as the tercentenary celebrations of the founding of the province led to a reexamination of the colony and state's contributions to the ethnic and religious diversity of modern America. With increasing pluralism, however, the religious group that was most prominent in the establishment of the province - the Society of Friends, or Quakers - declined in its impact and importance. |
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... House in Reading , General Manuscript Division of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania State Archives at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in Har- risburg , Archives of the Moravian ...
... House in Reading , General Manuscript Division of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania State Archives at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in Har- risburg , Archives of the Moravian ...
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... houses ; this rapid growth , along with other factors , encouraged the Assembly to create a new county in the region.23 Surprisingly , the first Europeans to settle in present - day Berks County were not from the persecuted regions of ...
... houses ; this rapid growth , along with other factors , encouraged the Assembly to create a new county in the region.23 Surprisingly , the first Europeans to settle in present - day Berks County were not from the persecuted regions of ...
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... houses and farms , practicing trades , and raising families . The physical environment influenced their daily lives , and their faith shaped their spiritual lives . The story of Exeter Monthly Meeting during the eighteenth century will ...
... houses and farms , practicing trades , and raising families . The physical environment influenced their daily lives , and their faith shaped their spiritual lives . The story of Exeter Monthly Meeting during the eighteenth century will ...
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... house- hold I have those who hold to the Roman , to the Lutheran , to the Calvinist , to the Anabaptist , and to the Anglican church , and only one Quaker . " The contemporary recorder of the history of the Moravian Church at Oley in ...
... house- hold I have those who hold to the Roman , to the Lutheran , to the Calvinist , to the Anabaptist , and to the Anglican church , and only one Quaker . " The contemporary recorder of the history of the Moravian Church at Oley in ...
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... house , among one family , members of four or five or six different sects . " This diversity , however , so appalled Mittelberger that he returned to Germany in 1754 rather than continue employment in Pennsylvania.2 Not surprisingly ...
... house , among one family , members of four or five or six different sects . " This diversity , however , so appalled Mittelberger that he returned to Germany in 1754 rather than continue employment in Pennsylvania.2 Not surprisingly ...
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Maintaining Ye Establishd Order Amongst Us Religious Discipline and Exeter Monthly Meeting | 35 |
War and the Frontier Friends Exeter Monthly Meeting and the Seven Years War | 52 |
A Crisis of Allegiance Berks County Quakers and the War for Independence | 65 |
The Quaker Ethic The Economic Activity of Berks County Quakers | 80 |
A Restless Desire Geographic Mobility and Exeter Friends | 100 |
To Start Instructing Young Friends at the Tenderest Age The Concern for the Education of Youth | 116 |
Men and Women of High Morals Exeter Monthly Meeting and the Outside World | 138 |
Conclusion The Contraction and Decline of Exeter Monthly Meeting | 153 |
Leaders of Exeter Monthly Meeting 17251789 | 161 |
Exeter Monthly Meeting Membership List 1750 | 164 |
Exeter Monthly Meeting Membership List 1775 | 167 |
Notes | 172 |
Bibliography | 199 |
Index | 229 |
Said Slave Be Suitable for Liberty The Abolition of Slavery and Exeter Monthly Meeting | 126 |
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9 mo Anglican backcountry Benjamin Lightfoot Berks County Berks County Quakers bottom 30 Catawissa Certificates of Removal Chester County children Exeter children Maiden Creek colonial Pennsylvania committee congregations Conrad Weiser Creek Maiden Creek Creek Preparative Meeting discipline early economic eighteenth century Embree Eshelman Exeter Boone Exeter Friends Exeter Monthly Meeting Exeter Township Francis Parvin frontier George Boone German Gwynedd Handwritten History Indulged Meeting James Boone Jonathan Potts leaders Lutheran Maiden Creek Maiden Creek Maiden Maiden Creek Preparative Maiden Creek Township meetinghouse members of Exeter migrated minister Monthly Meeting Book Monthly Meeting disowned Moravian Moses Roberts Native Americans non-Quakers Oley Valley overseer passim Penn's Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Philadelphia Yearly Meeting political province Reading Register of Property residents Return and Assessment Reverend Revolution Robeson Township Sarah served settlement settlers slaves Society of Friends taxpayers Thomas Tulpehocken upper 30 wife Mary William Penn Wily women Women's Monthly Meeting
Passagens conhecidas
Página 112 - American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character. ... In this advance, the frontier is the outer edge of the wave—the meeting point between savagery and civilization.
Página 216 - The Ancient Testimony and Principles of the People Called Quakers, renewed, with Respect to the King and Government; and Touching the Commotions now prevailing in these and other Parts of America, Addressed to the People in General. Philadelphia:
Página 128 - all parents to teach their children "to read the Scriptures and to write by the time they attain twelve years of age,
Página 75 - This night we expect an attack, truly alarming is our situation. The people exclaim against the Quakers, & some are scarce restrained from burning the Houses of those few who are in this Town.
Página 78 - against every usurpation of power and authority, in opposition to the laws and government, and against all combinations, insurrections, conspiracies and illegal assemblies.
Página 112 - In this advance, the frontier is the outer edge of the wave—the meeting point between savagery and civilization.
Página 28 - in my household I have those who hold to the Roman, to the Lutheran, to the Calvinist, to the Anabaptist, and to the Anglican church, and only one Quaker.