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Hace 6 días · Followers of Elias Hicks, a Quaker abolitionist, constructed this brick Meeting House and adjacent Seminary, and Charles T. Bunting, a member of this meeting, was the architect and builder. The pedimented entrance porches, plain window sills and lintels, and end gables with sloping wood cornices and lunette windows typify the mid ...
Hace 2 días · Elias Hicks married Jemima Seaman in 1771 and moved to her family’s farm in Jericho where he soon became a famous preacher of Quaker doctrine. All the Quakers suffered the British occupation of Long Island including the practice of quartering troops in their homes while they continued to protest the entire concept of war itself.
18 de may. de 2024 · The tenement afterwards appears to have passed to the Marston family, for John Marston of Hillend died about 1551, and in 1636–7 John Marston conveyed Hillend Farm to Sir Elias Hicks. Hillend was held from about 1686 to 1716 by Roger Ballard, senior, and from 1740 till 1755 Thomas Smith paid tithes for it.
Hace 3 días · Clements aroused controversy when he and two friends attempted to dig up the corpse of the Quaker minister Elias Hicks to create a plaster mold of his head. Clements left the Patriot shortly afterward, possibly as a result of the controversy.
1 de may. de 2024 · Walt Whitman and Elias Hicks. November 26, 1955. By Howard Hayes. This article appears on page 348 of an archived issue of Friends Journal, available in PDF. Facebook; Twitter; Print; Howard Hayes. Previous Article Next Article Subscribe To Our Newsletter.
Hace 6 días · This is a list of notable people associated with the Religious Society of 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 point in their lives. The second part consists of individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were ...
Hace 5 días · At its peak, Guinea Town had over 60 families, and it was led by Eliakim Levi. He was a conductor on the Underground Railroad alongside followers of abolitionist Elias Hicks.
