Society of Friends

MD attended the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends in Edinburgh with about thirty young women of her circle, apparently out of a joking spirit of curiosity.

Katharine Conway, later KBG , was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for...

She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .

Her family were Quakers , but wealthy ones, leaders too in the political life of Pennsylvania at the time that the British American colonies were becoming the United States.

The family was somewhat rigidly Quaker . As a girl MH entertained rebellious feelings about the severity of their religion, their ban on stylish clothes and artistic beauty. Early in her marriage she felt drawn...

IM was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland , had come down in the...

William Miller sent MD a letter on behalf of the Edinburgh Meeting of the Society of Friends which constructively dismissed her from the Society.

Catherine Payton (later CP ) prayed, in our little meeting at Dudley, that she might become a Quaker minister.

After her move to Philadelphia, BB attended Quaker meetings regularly, but without recovering the sweetness her soul had felt at her first conversion. She did not confide her religious difficulties, but kept them to herself...

She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist congregation of John Simpson . Later she moved to the sect of...

The Gracechurch Street, London, Meeting of the Society of Friends decided to expel MD from the Society.

Either KBG had become a member of the Society of Friends in time to send her youngest child to a Quaker school, or else the example of the school persuaded her to convert.

Brought up an Anglican , she was initially disturbed at the King 's execution. In the bloody City of London she lived like the prodigal son after his riotous period had ended, feeding ....

She was a presumably English Quaker ; nothing is known of her social background. By the end of her life she held millenarian beliefs.

BB became something of a recluse in Philadelphia. According to her niece Ann Bolton, she was prone to reading the Bible with the intention of finding fault with it, and yet more shockingly sometimes...