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Quakers -- Revolution, 1775–1783

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Esther Tuke sermon

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-312
Abstract

Summary

Dates: ca. 1765 to 1776

Samuel Wetherill Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-257
Abstract Samuel Wetherill (1736-1816), a Philadelphia manufacturer of cloth, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, was a birthright Quaker born in Burlington, N.J. During the Revolutionary War, he actively supported the military effort and was disowned from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1779. In 1781, he, along with other disowned Quakers, founded an independent Quaker meeting, called the Society of Free Quakers. This collection contains correspondence primarily from another group of disowned Quakers...
Dates: 1780-1816