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    David Willson (1778–1866) was a religious and political leader who founded the Quaker sect known as, 'The Children of Peace' or 'Davidites,' based at...
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  • David Willson may refer to: David Willson (Quaker) (1778–1866), religious leader and mystic David Harris Willson (1901–1973), American historian and professor...
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  • Friends, also known as Quakers, who have a Wikipedia article. The first part consists of individuals known to be or to have been Quakers continually from some...
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    Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741 – February 22, 1827) was an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician, and naturalist. In 1775...
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    The Children of Peace (category Quaker meetings)
    Children of Peace (1812–1889) was an Upper Canadian Quaker sect under the leadership of David Willson, known also as 'Davidites', who separated during the...
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    Peace, a sect led by former Quaker David Willson on whose property it was built. Other restored buildings include David Willson's Study, which is a smaller...
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  • Philadelphia and New Jersey. The progenitor of the family, John Cadwalader, was a Quaker who emigrated from Wales in part to escape religious persecution. John Cadwalader...
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    Hicks' religious views, like those of David Willson, were claimed to be universalist and to contradict Quakers' historical orthodox Christian beliefs...
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    The village of Sharon grew around the farm of David Willson (Lot 10, Second Conc.), the leader of the Quaker denomination known as the Children of Peace...
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  • were a utopian Quaker sect that separated from the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting during the War of 1812 under the leadership of David Willson. Today, they...
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    settlement is now known by the title of "Quaker Hill". In 1892, in the northern part of the township, David Kiess & Brother owned and ran a sawmill. J...
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    Ebenezer Doan (category Canadian Quakers)
    Elizabeth, joined the Children of Peace, led by another Yonge Street Quaker, David Willson. Ebenezer's fame as a builder is linked to the extraordinary "Meeting...
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  • Cyrus Bustill (category Quaker abolitionists)
    Burlington, New Jersey, on February 2, 1732, Cyrus Bustill was the son of Quaker lawyer Samuel Bustill and Parthenia, a woman of African descent whom Samuel...
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    married James Peale younger brother to Charles Willson Peale Abraham George Claypoole, (c.1754–1827); David Chambers Claypoole, (1757–1849); Temperance Claypoole...
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    is an area in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by Palatine, Quaker, and Mennonite families in 1683 as an independent borough, it was absorbed...
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    the Children of Peace, including the leader of the Children of Peace, David Willson. The group also included Randal Wixson, the editor of the Colonial Advocate...
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  • (1914–2010) – American Quaker peace activist, co-founder of the Movement for a New Society and of Peace Brigades International Brian Willson (born 1941) – American...
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    generation of American painters, including Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale. His birthplace was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965...
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    British historian, teacher and writer Alice Hayes (1657–1720), English Quaker preacher and autobiographer Alice Hoffman (born 1952), author of Practical...
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    agreement of David Willson, leader in York 1st of the Children of Peace, a Quaker religious group which were strong Reformers, and Willson had agreed....
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    Underground railroad". Haitian emigration Willson, Joseph (2000). Winch, Julie (ed.). The Elite of Our People: Joseph Willson's Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life...
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    John Hickenlooper (category American Quakers)
    attended Quaker meetings and tried to live by Quaker values. In a 2018 speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Hickenlooper said "I'm not a Quaker", but...
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    met and befriended Peter Heinrich, a Quaker who later established a school near the Banneker family farm. (Quakers were leaders in the anti-slavery movement...
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    the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777. A second portrait by Charles Willson Peale, Washington at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777, displays...
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    John Dickinson (category Quaker slave owners)
    Martha Jones, the granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Wynne, and the prominent Quaker John Cadwalader, who was the grandfather of General John Cadwalader of Philadelphia...
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    Madison married Dolley Payne Todd, the 26-year-old widow of John Todd, a Quaker farmer who died during a yellow fever epidemic. Earlier that year, Madison...
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    period, achieved a sophisticated style based on Smibert's example. Charles Willson Peale, who gained much of his earliest art training by studying Smibert's...
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    substantial original works published were by David Willson, the religious leader of the Children of Peace, a utopian Quaker group who built the Sharon Temple. The...
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    Nathanael Greene (category Quaker slave owners)
    command in the Southern theater of the conflict. Born into a prosperous Quaker family in Warwick, Rhode Island, Greene became active in the colonial opposition...
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    century, Margaret McLachlan, an elderly woman in her 60s, and Margaret Willson, a teenager, were, for refusing to swear an oath declaring James VII of...
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