The East Hoosac Quaker Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house in Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The meetinghouse's construction dates...

NH Friends Meetinghouse, Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire East Hoosac Quaker Meetinghouse, Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts East Nottingham...

Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820–1865. (2007) 191 pp. Thomas C. Kennedy, British Quakerism, 1860–1920: The...

Friends Meetinghouse, Blackstone, Worcester County East Hoosac Quaker Meeting House, Adams, Berkshire County: 231  Long Plain Friends Meetinghouse, Acushnet...

1900s, an active Quaker community existed in West Newbury. The Quaker Meetinghouse stood at what is now 114 Turkey Hill Street and the Quaker Burial Ground...

the English Quaker preachers Alice and Thomas Curwen, who were publicly flogged and imprisoned in Boston in 1676. By 1641, Massachusetts had expanded...

Southwick's store housed the Social and Instructive Library. Friends Meetinghouse, next to Moses Farnum's farm, had prominent abolitionists Abby Kelley...

Street in Adams, Massachusetts. Established about 1760, it is the town's oldest cemetery, serving as a burying ground for its early Quaker settlers, as...

American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. She...

Pembroke is an historic town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Pembroke is a South Shore suburb of the Boston metropolitan area. The town...

Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Norfolk County is the birthplace of four Presidents of the United States (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John F. Kennedy...

(north 3rd block); the Independence Visitor Center and the Free Quaker Meetinghouse (middle 2nd Block); and the President's House Memorial and the Liberty...

farmers in Pelham, Massachusetts. Kelley grew up helping with the family farms in Worcester where she received a loving, yet strict Quaker upbringing. Kelley...

to block the British flanking force at Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse and School, a Quaker meeting house. After a stiff fight, Howe's wing broke through...

Quaker, Anglican and Baptist theologies. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were the most active of the New England persecutors of Quakers,...

death, Rhode Island Quaker abolitionists, with ties to Moses Brown, built a local meetinghouse on the outskirts of Uxbridge. The Quakers and the Congregationalists...

hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused...

the United States in the 1780s. They were initially known as "Shaking Quakers" because of their ecstatic behavior during worship services. Espousing...

Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts, began with the opposition to slavery voiced by Quakers during the late 1820s, followed by African Americans...

Tabernacle, built in 1857 (Mormon) Pine Valley Chapel, oldest Mormon meetinghouse in continuous use, built in 1868 (Mormon) First Congregational Church...

repeatedly defying a law banning Quakers from being in the colony. In 1652 during the Commonwealth of England, the Massachusetts General Court authorized Boston...

free black people were eligible for full church membership, though meetinghouses and burial grounds were racially segregated. The Puritan influence over...

1854, reprinted in Judith Wellman and others, "1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse, Farmington, New York, Historic Structure Report", 2017, p. 100 Archived...

Antinomian controversy was that it committed Massachusetts to a policy of strict religious conformity. In 1894 Adams wrote, "Its historical significance was...

Anderson 2003, p. 484. Print sources Adams, Charles Francis (1894). Antinomianism in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1636–1638. Boston: The Prince Society...

Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass.; and of the Rev. Eliphalet Adams, of New London, Conn. Cambridge Massachusetts: Metcalf and Company. p...

Lucretia Mott, who delivered abolitionist speeches for decades in Quaker meetinghouses, provided leadership to sell 800 tickets for the Concert Hall event...

The First Meetinghouse at Isles of Shoals. Vaughn Cottage [Isles of Shoals Museum]. 23 Oct. 2012. Winthrop, Journal, vol. 2, p. 99. Adams, p. 60. See...

Concord. Reverend Webb's wife was Ruth (Adams), President John Adams' aunt, born March 21, 1700, Braintree, Massachusetts, and died August 26, 1761, Uxbridge...

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