Quaker Exiles in Virginia - VA History & Genealogy

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(Quaker) Exiles In
Virginia
With Observations On The Conduct of
The Society of Friends
During the Revolutionary War
By James Logan, John Pemberton, Nicholas Waln,
Mordecai Churchman
Published 1848, 290 pages
- Bonus Book -
Old Quaker Meeting-Houses
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
With 166 Illustrations
By John Russell Hayes
Published 1911; 259 pages, indexed
- Bonus Book #2 -
Bulletin of
Friends Historical Society
Philadelphia, Vol. IX & X
By Friends' Historical Society
Published 1919-1921; 341 pages, indexed
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The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in
England
in the 17th century as a Christian religious denomination by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally credit George Fox with being the principal co-founder or most important early figure. The Society of Friends is counted among the historic peace churches. Society members are known as Quakers or Friends.
Philadelphia
is one of the locations where Quaker influence is concentrated.
During the Revolutionary War, most Quakers maintained their pacifist beliefs. Some Quakers disagreed and felt that the cause of freedom was too important. Many of these Quakers were important contributors in the war for independence. They established their own meeting house knowing that by supporting the Revolution they would be expelled from the main community of Quakers. (Pictured is the Free Quakers Meeting House in Lynchburg.)
“The Introduction to the Journal of the Exiles gives a brief narrative of the banishment of several citizens of
Philadelphia
, who were sent to
Virginia
, at the beginning of the war of the American Revolution, and of the events connected with it, until they were remanded by Congress to
Pennsylvania
to be discharged. And it gives a general account of the Society of Friends in the Province, previously to that time.
The Journal was kept by those of the company who were members of the Society, and refers to the peculiar situation in which they were placed in consequence of the general Resolutions of the Congress of the United States, respecting the war ; out of which Resolutions, arose the Orders of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, which directed the arrest of the Friends, and fixed the place of their exile.
To the Journal are added observations of the Society of Friends, upon this treatment of their members, and a defence against the charges made, respecting their political conduct; these exhibit a refutation of the alleged authorship of the several publications imputed to them, which had been sent to Congress, and though obviously not worthy of credit, were printed, and circulated by its order, to the prejudice of the Society.
In the Appendix will be found copies of the Minutes of the Congress, and of the Executive Council, arranged in a continuity of dates; and which correspond with the Journal. The Epistles of the Friends written to their members, advising them to keep out of all warlike measures, are added, in order to comprise all the charges which were alleged against the Society; and there is added to the Introduction, an account of the visits which a committee of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, made in October, 1777, to General Howe, at his headquarters, near Germantown, and to General Washington, at the American camp, at Valley Forge, to explain the principles which governed the Society, in relation to the contending parties.”
Book Contents
INTRODUCTION
17
Supreme Executive Council, William Penn, Society of Friends
JOURNAL OF THE EXILES
65
Lewis Nicola, Thomas Pike, Timothy Matlack
Friends removed from Philadelphia llth Sept
133
Benjamin Bryant, John Pemberton, Thomas Pike
RESIDENCE AT
WINCHESTER
30th
158
Alexander White,
Winchester
, Timothy Matlack
RETURN JOURNEY TO
PHILADELPHIA
226
TIMOTHY MATLACK, Thomas Mifflin, Fredericktown
CONCLUSION/Observations
234
YEARLY MEETING, Divine
Providence
, GEORGE WASHINGTON
CONSIDERATIONS ON CHARGES or CONGRESS
239
Meeting for Sufferings, Chesapeake Bay,
Staten Island
APPENDIXJournals of Congress
and of 259
Supreme Executive Council, Joshua Fisher, Charles Stedman
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