Ohio History Journal

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THE QUAKERS, THEIR MIGRATION TO THE

THE QUAKERS, THEIR MIGRATION TO THE

UPPER OHIO, THEIR CUSTOMS

AND DISCIPLINE

 

BY H. E. SMITH, MARIETTA, OHIO

George Fox was the Father of the Quaker Meeting,

sometimes called Friends' Meeting. He tells us that

"Truth sprang up first (to us to be a people to the Lord)

in Leicestershire, England, in 1644." He describes how

"the movement first spread to the neighboring counties,

then by 1654 over England, Scotland and Ireland; in

1655 many went beyond the seas and in 1656 Truth

broke forth in America."

In a General Epistle dated 1660, Germany, America,

Virginia and many other places, as Florence, Mantua,

Palatine, Tuscany, Italy, Rome, Turkey, Jerusalem,

France, Geneva, Norway, Barbadoes, Bermuda, An-

tigua, Jamaica, Surinam and Newfoundland are men-

tioned as having been visited by Friends.

In all the work of the Meetings, women have shared

an equal responsibility with the men. One of Fox's

earliest followers was Margaret Fell, then the wife of

Judge Fell of Swarthmore, who, on the death of the

Judge, became the wife of George Fox. She was a

woman of position and wealth, and she used both to

advance the teachings of Fox. Swarthmore Hall, the

home of the Fells, who with the Kirbys, were Lords of

the Manor of Ulverston, became a center for the going

and coming of Quaker preachers to all parts of the

world and Margaret Fell, assisted by her daughters,

Sarah and Rachel, was truly the Mother in Israel to the

new faith.

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