"Rememb'ring our time and work is the Lords" : the experiences of Quakers on the eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier
Examines the extent that changes in the world around them affected backcountry Quakers, by focusing on the activities of Exeter Monthly Meeting of Friends, based in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Friends within the realm of Exeter Monthly Meeting had to confront matters the Quaker founders of the province could hardly have anticipated.
Print Book, English, ©2005
Susquehanna University Press, Selinsgrove, Pa., ©2005
Church history
251 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
9781575910932, 1575910934
59401769
Introduction : the origins of Exeter monthly meeting
A land of diversity and contention : the religious environment of eighteenth-century Berks County, Pennsylvania
Maintaining "ye establish'd order amongst us" : religious discipline and Exeter monthly meeting
War and the frontier friends : Exeter monthly meeting and the Seven Years' War
A crisis of allegiance : Berks County Quakers and the War for Independence
The Quaker ethic : the economic activity of Berks County Quakers
"A restless desire" : geographic mobility and Exeter friends
"To start instructing young friends at the tenderest age" : the concern for the education of youth
"Said slave be suitable for liberty" : the abolition of slavery and Exeter monthly meeting
Men and women of high morals : Exeter monthly meeting and the outside world
Conclusion : the contraction and decline of Exeter monthly meeting