Records 1688-1937.

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Records 1688-1937.

In part, typescripts (typewritten) and photocopies. Correspondence, minutes, vital records, deeds, indentures, testimonies, and other papers, of various Ohio meetings, and the New Garden Quarterly Meeting, Fountain City, Ind. Includes communications with Friends in London, Dublin, Virginia, No. Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Indiana and notes on the early history of the Friends in southeastern Ohio. Contact repository for more information.

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Society of Separatists of Zoar

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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...