Collected writings, 1690-1777.

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Collected writings, 1690-1777.

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A copy of a compilation of writings, 1690-1777, primarily of epistles to congregations of and individual Friends, by many authors, with Samuel Fothergill being most prominant. Also includes meditations, testimonies, sermons, prayers, speeches, a memorial, minutes dated 1759, poems and a table of contents.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

Fothergill, Samuel, 1715-1772

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Samuel Fothergill (1715–1772), was a Quaker minister from Yorkshire, England. He was the sixth son of John Fothergill and his wife Margaret, well-to-do Quakers of considerable means at Carr End, Wensleydale, Yorkshire. He was born in November 1715. He was educated at Briggflats, near Sedbergh, and afterwards at a school at Sutton in Cheshire, kept by his uncle, Thomas Hough. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a Quaker shopkeeper at Stockport. As soon as his apprenticeship was over,...