| 1647/00/00 |
The Society of Friends is established in England by George Fox. |
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| 1655/00/00 |
Between 1655 and 1775, over sixty Quaker meetinghouses will be built in Virginia. |
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| 1656/00/00 |
Members of the Society of Friends settle in Boston, where they are met severe Puritan persecution. |
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| 1657/00/00 |
The WOODHOUSE, a small coastal vessel built and captained by Robert Fowler, carries 11 Quakers on a 2 month journey to from London to New England. Six disembarked to face persecution at New Amsterdam while 5 continued to a warmer welcome at Newport, RI. |
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| 1661/00/00 |
Members of the Society of Friends are imprisoned in England. Between 1661 and 1685, about 15,000 Quakers will be incacerated in England. |
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| 1673/00/00 |
Joseph and Ruth Peaslee hold a Quaker meeting in their residence in East Haverhill, Province of Massachusetts Bay. |
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Peaslee Garrison House |
Haverhill |
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| 1675/00/00 |
Religious Society of Friends, Quakers, begin arriving in Upland where several hundred Swedes, Dutch and Finns have settled along the Delaware River. |
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Chester |
Pennsylvania |
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| 1676/00/00 |
First Salem Meeting of the Society of Friends is organized. |
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Abel and Mary Nicholson House |
Salem |
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| 1682/10/28 |
A few Quakers, some who had fled from religious persecution in England and Wales and settled in the area as early as 1675, greet William Penn and the new arrivals. |
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William Penn Landing Site |
Chester |
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| 1685/00/00 |
Up to 1,400 Members of the Society of Friends are held in English jails. |
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| 1694/00/00 |
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Old Quaker Meetinghouse |
New York City |
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| 1702/02/28 |
Begun in 1699, The Portsmouth Friends Meeting House is complete enough to hold its first meeting. It will be altered several times in subsequent years. |
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Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery |
Portsmouth, RI |
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| 1703/00/00 |
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Fair Hill Burial Ground |
Philadelphia, PA |
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| 1710/00/00 |
A Quaker meeting, often held in Holly Hill before 1700, is held at Holly Hill. |
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Holly Hill |
Rose Haven |
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| 1726/00/00 |
The Religious Society of Friends build a meeting house of unhewn, tan, Pennsylvania fieldstone. The one room building is divided into separate areas of worship for men and woman by floor to ceiling wooden folding partitians. |
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Caln Meeting House |
Coatesville |
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| 1753/00/00 |
Chappaqua is settled c 1740 by a group of Quakers from Long Island. The Chappaqua Friends Meeting House at 420 Quaker Road dates from c 1753. |
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Old Chappaqua Historic District |
Chappaqua, NY |
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| 1760/00/00 |
Evesham Friends Meeting House is built |
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Evesham Friends Meeting House |
Mount Laurel |
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| 1771/00/00 |
The Fairfax Meetinghouse in Waterford, the earliest known example of Quaker Plain Style, is brought into conformity with the style by its "doubling." |
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Fairfax Quaker Meeting House in Waterford |
Waterford |
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| 1775/00/00 |
After questioning the morality of slavery, Religious Society of Friends eliminate slaveholding among their membership. |
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| 1777/00/00 |
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Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery |
Clinton Corners |
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| 1780/00/00 |
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Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery |
Millbrook |
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| 1786/00/00 |
Designed by William H Douglas, a simple post and beam meeting house is erected by Quakers. |
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Oak Grove Chapel |
Vassalboro |
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| 1790/00/00 |
The Northern Virginia meetings are transferred to Baltimore Yearly Meeting from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. |
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| 1790/00/00 |
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Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery |
Moore's Mill |
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| 1794/00/00 |
The Hopewell Meetinghouse in Frederick County, Virginia, is doubled in size between 1788 and 1794. |
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Hopewell Friends Meetinghouse |
Clear Brook |
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| 1797/00/00 |
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Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery |
East Park |
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| 1809/00/00 |
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Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery |
LeGrangeville |
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| 1812/00/00 |
Twelfth Street Meeting House is built on the west side of 12th St, south of Market Street, in Philadelphia using salvaged timbers from a 1755 meeting house. |
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Twelfth Street Meetinghouse |
Newtown Township |
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| 1820/00/00 |
Between 1800 and 1820, Quaker meetings in Virginia will drop in number from 63 to 32. |
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| 1835/00/00 |
New Garden Boarding School building constructed |
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Founders Hall |
Greensboro |
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| 1837/00/00 |
Guilford College is founded by members of the Religious Society of Friends. |
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Guilford College |
Greensboro |
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| 1844/00/00 |
The "laying down" of the Virginia Yearly Meeting signals the end of Virginia Quakers' westerly migration in response to the unrelenting dominance of slavery in the Commonwealth. |
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| 1851/00/00 |
Farmers Institute Academy opens |
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Farmers Institute |
Shadeland |
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| 1863/00/00 |
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Poughkeepsie Meeting House (Montgomery Street) |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
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| 1864/00/00 |
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Race Street Friends Meetinghouse |
Philadelphia, PA |
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| 1865/00/00 |
After the Civil War, Quakers form the Virginia Half Yearly Meeting under the care of Baltimore Yearly Meeting and join the more populous Northern Virginia meetings. |
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| 1875/00/00 |
Clear Creek Meeting House is built for the Illinois Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. |
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Clear Creek Meeting House |
McNabb |
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| 1890/00/00 |
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Clinton Corners Friends Church |
Clinton Corners |
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| 1928/00/00 |
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Poughkeepsie Meeting House (Hooker Avenue) |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
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