Meanwhile, Quakers in New England had been banished ( and some executed ), and Charles was advised by his councillors to issue a mandamus condemning this practice and allowing them to return.

Not all of his beliefs were welcome to all Quakers: his Puritan-like opposition to the arts and rejection of theological study, forestalled development of these practices among Quakers for some time.

The similarity between Lollards and later English Protestant groups such as the Baptists, Puritans, and Quakers also suggests some continuation of Lollard ideas through the Reformation.

Though Molokans are somewhat similar to the European Quakers and Mennonites — for their pacifism, communal organization, spiritual meetings, and sub-groupings — they are ethnically much closer to Doukhobors and Sabbatarians ( Subbotniki ) because they evolved from the same Russian Spiritual Christian movement of Khristovers and Ikonobors ( icon-wrestlers ), and migrated together with some intermarriage.

After 1800, Yankees ( along with some Quakers and others ) spearheaded most reform movements, including those for abolition of slavery, temperance in use of alcohol, increase in women's political rights, and improvement in women's education.

By the 1840s, some Hicksite Quakers determined to bring women and men together in the faith as an expression of their spiritual equality.

For some, Westbury was only one stop on the way to Canada, but several stayed in this area after being harbored in secret rooms in the homes of the Quakers.

Quakers expressed concern with AFSC's abolition of their youth work camps during the 1960s and what some saw as a decline of Quaker participation in the organization.

Examples are Religious Naturalism, Scientific Pantheism, Religious Humanism and some liberal Unitarians, Quakers, Rastafarians and Jews.

Groups include the Shakers, Mennonites, Amish, Bruderhof, Harmony Society, and some Quakers.

The spiritual enthusiasm of Lady Conway was a considerable factor in some of More's speculations, even though she at length joined the Quakers.

By all accounts an extremely charismatic man with a somewhat Christ-like appearance, he also attracted a loyal personal following, which some other Quakers regarded with suspicion.

See A Relation of the Life, Conversion, Examination, Confession, and Sentence of James Nayler ( 1657 ); a Memoir of the Life, Ministry, Trial, and Sufferings of James Nayler ( 1719 ); and a Refutation of some of the more Modern Misrepresentations of the Society of Friends commonly called Quakers, with a Life of James Nayler, by Joseph Gurney Bevan ( 1800 ).

The Doukhobors ' passage across the Atlantic Ocean was largely paid for by Quakers and Tolstoyans, who sympathized with their plight, and by the writer Leo Tolstoy, who arranged for the royalties from his novel Resurrection, his story Father Sergei, and some others, to go to the migration fund.

The movement had been gathering strength for some years, having been founded by Quakers both in Britain and in the United States, with support from other Nonconformists or from Puritans on both sides of the Atlantic.

* 1807 A Letter in Answer to some of the leading Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers

Quaker and Quaker-derived views informed the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, including through the direct influence of some of the Framers of the Constitution, such as John Dickinson ( politician ) and Thomas Mifflin, who were either Quakers themselves or came from regions founded or heavily populated with Quakers.

The Religious Society of Friends began as a Christian movement ( though a few contemporary Quakers in some meetings do not consider themselves Christian, while some consider themselves as part of a Universal religion, that for historical reasons is rooted in Christianity ), founded in 17th Century England ; it has around 350, 000 members.

Quakers in the United States of America are divided on the issue of homosexuality, with some ( mostly Friends affiliated with programmed meetings ) not approving of either homosexuality or the legalization of same sex unions.

Friends associated with Friends General Conference ( FGC ), the more liberal group of Friends encompassing a large number of yearly meetings and approximately a fifth of all Quakers in the country, are the most tolerant with many monthly meetings and some yearly meetings providing full equality for homosexuals including marriage.

Liberal Quakers take this idea of walking in Christ's light to refer to God's presence within a person, and to a direct and personal experience of God, although this varies to some extent between Quakers in different yearly meetings.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

The Fairmount area was settled in the 1830s mostly by Quakers from North Carolina.

On his mother's side, Cleveland was descended from Anglo-Irish Protestants and German Quakers from Philadelphia.

* 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

This form derived from methods of Quakers in particular.

" Quakers " continued to be used interchangeably with " Phillies " from 1884 until 1890, when the team officially became known as the " Phillies ".

The analysis of " mainstream Puritanism " in terms of the evolution from it of separatist and antinomian groups that did not flourish, and others that continue to this day such as Baptists and Quakers, can suffer in this way, as well as risking an incoherent view of where the burden of belief lay for the " godly ".

In 1660, one of the most notable victims of the religious intolerance was English Quaker Mary Dyer who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.

In Rochester, she attended the local Unitarian Church and began to distance herself from the Quakers, in part because she had frequently witnessed instances of hypocritical behavior such as the use of alcohol amongst Quaker preachers.

One of the first protests against the enslavement of Africans came from German and Dutch Quakers in Pennsylvania in 1688.

Although his family had been Quakers for four generations, he was expelled from the Religious Society of Friends because his involvement with a military force contradicted his faith's pacifistic nature.

The original settlers in the first two settlements were Quakers and Anglicans ; and both groups continued to grow from ongoing immigration from the northern portions of Virginia colony.

Sarah's family were Quakers from Wales, and settled in Towamencin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1708.

When Boone's oldest brother Israel also married a " worldling " in 1747, Squire Boone stood by his son and was therefore expelled from the Quakers, although his wife continued to attend monthly meetings with her children.

If, however, a convert comes from a Christian confession that baptizes in the name of Jesus ( such as Oneness Pentecostals ), from one which practices an invalid, non-Trinitarian baptism ( such as Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses ) or from one that does not practice baptism at all ( such as Quakers or The Salvation Army ), baptism is a prerequisite for chrismation-an initiate must always be validly baptized into the death of Jesus in the name of the Holy Trinity before any further holy mysteries or sacraments of initiation can be administered.

The settlement was founded in 1726 by Colonial English Quakers from Chester County led by entrepreneur and evangelist John Wright.

This combination of events directly precipitated an inrush of settlers from Pennsylvania and New York, made up of a blend of Quakers and various German and Scots-Irish homesteaders, many of them new immigrants.

The settlement of Winchester began as early as 1729, when Quakers such as Abraham Hollingsworth migrated up ( south ) the Great Valley along the long-traveled Indian Path ( later called the Great Wagon Road by the colonists ) from Pennsylvania.

Tradition holds that the Quakers purchased several tracts on Apple-pie Ridge from the natives, who did not disturb those settlements.

* 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.

The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were the most active of the New England persecutors of Quakers, and the persecuting spirit was shared by the Plymouth Colony and the colonies along the Connecticut river.

Many members of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers, made their homes in western New York state, near Seneca Falls.

Walter was a Quaker who emigrated from England and arrived in Burlington, New Jersey, on a " boat load of Quakers " in 1678.

In 1681, a group of Quakers seeking religious freedom sailed from Ireland to Fenwick's Colony at Salem, New Jersey where they spent the winter.

The area was first settled in 1666 by Quakers and Baptists who had left the Puritan colony in New Hampshire.

Falkenberg was a linguist, fluent in the Lenape language, and was considered southern New Jersey's foremost language interpreter involving land transactions between the Indians and the European settlers, particularly the English Quakers.

The area was a location where the Stockbridge Indians relocated around 1780, assisted by Quakers and was called the New Stockbridge Territory.

In the early 1730s a group of Quakers moved north from Purchase, New York, to settle in present-day Chappaqua.

Friendsville was founded by Quakers from New Garden, North Carolina who settled in the area in the 1790s.

The school was founded in 1864 by a committee of Quakers who were members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, New York Yearly Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

Both All Saints ' and St. Andrew's are founder members of Churches Together in Huntington and New Earswick, together with Huntington Methodist Church, New Earswick Methodist Church, St. Paulinus ' Catholic Church and the New Earswick Religious Society of Friends (' Quakers ').

In 1760 the New England Quakers made importation of slaves an offence subject to discipline.

Amy and Isaac Post, Hicksite Quakers from Rochester, New York, had long been acquainted with the Fox family, and took the two girls into their home in the late spring of 1848.

Berkeley sold his share to a group of Quakers because of the political difficulties between New York Governor Richard Nicolls, Carteret, and himself.

The early settlers were Dutch, but later Quakers and New Englanders arrived.

The town's earliest settlers chiefly comprised English Quakers from Dutchess County, New York, in the 1780s as well as a group of settlers who were originally from the town of Kent, Connecticut.

Diversity was an American characteristic as the Dutch of New Netherland, the Swedes and Finns of New Sweden, the English Quakers of Pennsylvania, the English Puritans of New England, the English settlers of Jamestown, and the " worthy poor " of Georgia, came to the new continent and built colonies with distinctive social, religious, political and economic styles.