Another Act, the Quaker Act ( 1662 ), required people to swear an oath of allegiance to the king, which Quakers did not do out of religious conviction.

The Quaker Act 1662, specifically targeting Quakers, can also be cited as part of the new religious ' code '.

The, Allegany State Park began on May 2, 1921, when an Act of the New York State Legislature approved the purchase of a tract of land in the Quaker Run Valley.

In 1662, Burrough was arrested for holding a meeting, which was illegal under the terms of the Quaker Act.

Quakers and Jews were exempt from the restrictions within the Marriage Act 1949 from the requirements to marry in certain approved locations or at certain times, so were the only groups who were ( theoretically ) allowed to, for example, marry outdoors or in the middle of the night ( although in practice Quaker marriages are performed in a place where there is a regular Meeting for Worship held, so would not usually take place outside ).

The law with regard to Quaker weddings in England and Wales is based around Section 47 of the Marriage Act 1949 Marriages according to usages of the Society of Friends

As U. S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York, during May – July 1869 Barlow prosecuted Cuban independence rebels for violating the Neutrality Act and disbanded the filibuster expeditions on the Perit, Quaker City, and Whiting steamers.

The first was the Quaker Act of 1662 ,< ref >' Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the Mischeifs In November 1775, Virginia's former royal governor claimed that all slaves would be freed if they were willing to fight for Great Britain.

Refusing to take an oath was prohibited by the Quaker Act of 1662.

At other times Penington was charged with attending a Quaker meeting, which was forbidden by the Conventicle Act of 1664.

An order for his release signed by Charles II was ignored by the local authorities, and Burrough remained in Newgate until his death on February 14, 1663, aged just 29, (" twelfth month 1662 " in the oldstyle and Quaker terminologies ).

In 1662 Bowne was arrested on orders of Governor Stuyvesant for allowing a Quaker meeting in his house.

Built around 1661, it was the location of a Quaker meeting in 1662 that resulted in the arrest of its owner, John Bowne.

The parish was a centre of Quaker worship from 1662, and there was a licensed meeting-house by 1669.

Parliament enacted laws which forbade non-Anglican religious meetings of more than five people, essentially making Quaker meetings illegal.

Fox wrote a letter to the governor and assembly of the island in which he refuted charges that Quakers were stirring up the slaves to revolt and tried to affirm the orthodoxy of Quaker beliefs.

As professor at the Royal Institution, Davy would later repeat many of the ingenious experiments which he had learned from his Quaker instructor.

After marrying Mary Reed in a Methodist service in 1862, a Quaker encouraged him to express regret for this, to which Cannon replied, " If you mean that I am to get up in meeting and say that I am sorry I married Mary, I won't do it.

The philibeg or small kilt, also known as the walking kilt ( similar to the modern kilt ) was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire called Thomas Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s for the use of the Highlanders he and Iain MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness employed in logging, charcoal manufacture and iron smelting, for which the belted plaid was " cumbrous and unwieldy ".

Green Philosophy draws heavily on both Gandhi and the Quaker traditions, which advocate measures by which the escalation of violence can be avoided, while not cooperating with those who commit violence.

" Dapplemere was part of a tight-knit rural community called " Quaker Hill ", which was known as a haven for the prominent and well-to-do.

In 1754, Abraham Hollingsworth built the local residence called Abram's Delight, which served as the first local Quaker meeting house.

He also painted the famous Quaker on the Quaker Oats cereal boxes, which is still in use to this day.

Directly to the south of the churchyard stands a 12. 80 metre tall granite obelisk, which was erected in 1861 as a memorial to the Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist, Samuel Gurney ( 1766 to 1856 ).

The primary areas of settlement were Augusta ; Wrightsboro ( a Quaker settlement named for James Wright, the royal governor ); and Brownsborough, which was near the present-day location of North Columbia Elementary School.

* The Connecticut College Arboretum is a arboretum and botanical garden which lies partially within Quaker Hill Village, a district of Waterford.

After being transferred to Penn, Delaware's Swedish, Dutch, and English residents used to the relaxed culture of the Restoration monarchy grew uncomfortable with the more conservative Quaker influence, so Delaware petitioned for a separate legislature, which was finally granted in 1702.

* Quaker Hill – From a country hilltop in the 19th century to rows of city homes today, Quaker Hill ( which surrounds the historical Quaker Friends Meeting House ) has watched its neighborhood become much more modernized over the last three centuries.

Grisell was a member of the Hicksite Quaker faith, mostly country Friends who perceived urban Friends as worldly, a group which split from Orthodox Friends in 1827 due the views of Elias Hicks.

There are still Quaker meeting houses in town, including the Smith Neck Meeting House, the Allens Neck Meeting House, and the Apponegansett Meeting House, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The historic Westfield Friends School, which serves students from PreK-8th grade, is a Quaker school founded in 1788.

The Capoolong Creek, which runs through the community of Pittstown, was an attraction to early settlers and they soon established three of the oldest churches in present day Hunterdon: Thomas Episcopal, established in 1723, Bethlehem Presbyterian, organized in 1730 and the Quaker Church in 1733.

Boonton Township's recorded history began about 1710 when William Saget Penn, the Quaker land speculator, located in the northern valley his Lot No. 48, which contained by actual survey 1, 430 prime field and woodland acres.

Quaker Hartshorne Fitz Randolph purchased Jackson's property and annexed to his own existing property, which would later become part of Randolph Township.

Wharton first studied at a local Quaker school after which he worked on a farm rather than attend college because his parents wanted him to mature, and during the winter studied chemistry at the laboratory of Martin Hans Boyè in Philadelphia.

Famous people born in Morrow County include ( 1 ) Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, who was born near Blooming Grove, Ohio, in northeast Morrow County ; ( 2 ) Quaker abolitionist Richard Dillingham, who was born in Peru Township ; ( 3 ) Reverend Frank W. Gunsaulus, cleryman, writer and educator ( see Illinois Institute of Technology ), who was born in Chesterville, Ohio ; and ( 4 ) writer Dawn Powell, who was born in Mount Gilead.

Paoli is a former Quaker town that played a role in the Underground Railroad by transporting enslaved people from the South to Canada.

The town was renamed to Ambler in 1869 in honor of Mary Johnson Ambler, a local Quaker woman who heroically assisted during The Great Train Wreck of 1856, a local train accident in which 59 people were killed instantly and dozens more died from their injuries.

The lands in and around the borough of Lewisberry were under control of the Susquehannock people until the first Quaker settlements in the 1730s.

After a search of possible festivals, local grocery store owner John Walters discovered from the Quaker grits people that the upper part of Dorchester County ( of which Saint George is located ) consumes more grits per capita than any other place in the world.

For other people with the surname " Fry " but probably NOT related to the Quaker Chocolate manufacturing Fry family see Fry ( surname ).

He established his home in a Quaker settlement near Topanemus where he helped to build a meeting house in which he preached to the people on the Quaker faith.

The founding of Cheyney University was made possible by Richard Humphreys, a Quaker philanthropist who bequeathed $ 10, 000, one tenth of his estate, to design and establish a school to educate people of African descent.

In August 2012 Muller Quaker Dairy broke ground on what is to be one of the largest yogurt manufacturing plants in the United States, expected to employee 186 people.

Through the years, the park was developed further with the addition of Quaker Lake, winterized cabins and full service cottages, hiking and snowmobile trails, picnic and recreation areas, bike and horse paths, and better roads enabling people to access the park.

When the smoke had settled, 23 people had died and Quaker was left with $ 2, 000, 000 in damages.

They had issue Walter Scott Hughes ( 1888 – 1953 ) and Dorothea Hughes ( 1891 – 1952 ), a Quaker and philanthropist who was described as ' a veritable patron saint to the loving people Jamaica '

: As a Quaker War Secretary, I should consider myself a living illustration of a horrible incongruity .... In case our country should come into armed conflict with any other, I would go as far as any man in her defense ; but I cannot, without violating every tradition of my people and going against every instinct of my nature, planted there by heredity, environment and training, sit down in cold blood in an executive position and use such talents as I possess to the work of preparing for such a conflict.

Dowell is an American Quaker, a gullible and passionless man who cannot read the emotions of the people around him.

* Quaker Life deals with the running of Quaker meetings within Britain, including outreach work within Britain, education and development for Quakers in Britain, activities for children and young people

* The school's seal is an oil lamp with the inscription " Mind the light ," referring to the Quaker conception of God's presence within all people as the inner light.

When William Penn left his Quaker colony in Pennsylvania, the people stopped paying quitrent, and any semblance of formal government evaporated.

The first two people who went to what is now the United States to promote the Quaker Faith were Mary Fisher and Ann Austin.

You will see a gentle Quaker farmer come to grips with the evils of slaveholding and see how it came to be that these people led the way in opposing that institution.

The majority of the Maragoli people were primarily converted into the Quaker denomination of Christians, which is practiced to this day.