Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Rules of Discipline : handwritten, circa 1806-1809.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Rules of Discipline : handwritten, circa 1806-1809.

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This is a 113 page handwritten volume, with index, of the Rules of Discipline of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. It was written ca. 1806-1809. The book illuminates Quaker social and religious thought on such subjects as the African slave trade, Negroes, women, war, marriage, schools, and taverns. A copy of this book was kept at various meeting houses of the society but access was restricted. In 1825 a printed edition was published in a move to dispel the mystery surrounding the book.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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Mount Holly Monthly Meeting was established in 1776 by Burlington Quarterly Meeting out of Burlington Monthly Meeting. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox Meeting was discontinued in 1828 ; its members were transferred to Burlington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Mount Holly Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the cu...

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