Minutes, 1742.

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Minutes, 1742.

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Positive photostat copy of the proceedings of the Exeter Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends held in Maiden Creek, Pennsylvania, May 29-July 7, 1742, concerning the marriages to outsiders of Sarah and Hannah Boone, daughters of Squire Boone.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Exeter Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1742-1829)

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Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting established Oley Monthly Meeting in 1737. In 1742, its name was changed to "Exeter". Two monthly meetings emerged in 1829 after the Hicksite Separation. Exeter Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1899. Exeter Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) removed all its sessions to Reading around 1878. In 1950, this meeting became a united meeting by affiliation with the Hicksite and Orthodox Philadelphia Quarterly Meetings, and its name was changed to Reading-Exeter Unite...

Boone, Hannah, 1746-1826

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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...