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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 with 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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| 1657/00/00 |
In the summer of 1657, the General Court to fines Thomas Macy thirty shillings and to be "admonished" by the governor for proving shelter to four Quakers for less than an hour in his home during a severe rainstorm. |
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| 1657/05/00 |
General Court in Boston makes it illegal to provide shelter to "any of the cursed sects of Quakers". |
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| 1657/10/14 |
General Court in Boston passes a law "that if any person should entertain any Quaker or Quakers, or other blasphemous heretics" they should be fined forty shillings for every hour of such entertainment. |
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| 1661/00/00 |
Between 1661 and 1685, about 15,000 members of the Society of Friends are imprisoned 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 |
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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 |
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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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