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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… why the Members of the Western Division (who are all Quakers, except one, did not attend) was because somebody had …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that Burlington is the chief habitation of the Quakers, I have seen a Congregation of above 300 people at …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Pa., to the Bishop of London. Chester, March 25, 1706. The Quakers have made enclosed Law, and raised money on us as … as is stated, ye greatest part of ye inhabitants are Quakers, the Proprietor also being a Quaker, and Quakers by the Laws there may have judicial places, I do not …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… opinion that as long as the Queen is pleased to allow the Quakers to sit in the Assembly, they never will settle a … of New Jersey will amount to about 2,300 men besides the Quakers, but of this you shall have compleat lists by the … must not expect a Militia Act to be past, as long as the Quakers are allowed to sit in the Assembly. The next thing I …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… traders, are against it, the farmers for it. In Jersey the Quakers in the Assembly voted against ye bill for raising … upon the third reading, two of ye Assembly that were not Quakers joyned with them thro somebody's instigation to … along for the Bill untill the third reading. I am told the Quakers would have absented from the house if they had known …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… party of Morris, Johnstone etc., and united with the Quakers; and little has been transacted during the sitting of … They began with entring into a strict league with the Quakers, and drew up and presented their Address, by which it … prosecutions by informations, and a third for quallifying Quakers to serve on all juries, give evidence in criminall …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… it was not long before Mr. Cary being join'd by certain Quakers entrusted by the Proprietors in some part of the … to find in two or three of our frontier counties where the Quakers have got the greatest footing, such a reluctancy to … that some restless and giddy heads among the people called Quakers pursuing their wonted practice and indefatigable …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… have by too fatall experience found that the admission of Quakers into offices of the highest trust in the Governmt. … too apparent from the cunning address and interest of the Quakers of this present Assembly, who procured a Bill to be … we further crave leave to acquaint your Majty that the Quakers have lately past an Act in our neighbouring Colony of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… accompany the surrender in favour of the people called Quakers, and claim those rights and favours which have been …