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9781575910932

"Rememb'ring our time and work is the Lords" The Experiences of Quakers on the Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Frontier

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  • ISBN13:

    9781575910932

  • ISBN10:

    1575910934

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-11-01
  • Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

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Author Biography

Karen Guenther is Associate Professor of History at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Tables
7(2)
Acknowledgments 9(6)
Introduction: The Origins of Exeter Monthly Meeting
15(13)
A Land of Diversity and Contention: The Religious Environment of Eighteenth-Century Berks County, Pennsylvania
28(19)
Maintaining ``Ye Establish'd Order Amongst Us'': Religious Discipline and Exeter Monthly Meeting
47(17)
War and the Frontier Friends: Exeter Monthly Meeting and the Seven Years' War
64(13)
A Crisis of Allegiance: Berks County Quakers and the War for Independence
77(15)
The Quaker Ethic: The Economic Activity of Berks County Quakers
92(20)
``A Restless Desire'': Geographic Mobility and Exeter Friends
112(16)
``To Start Instructing Young Friends at the Tenderest Age'': The Concern for the Education of Youth
128(10)
``Said Slave Be Suitable for Liberty'': The Abolition of Slavery and Exeter Monthly Meeting
138(12)
Men and Women of High Morals: Exeter Monthly Meeting and the Outside World
150(15)
Conclusion: The Contraction and Decline of Exeter Monthly Meeting
165(8)
Appendix 1. Leaders of Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1725--1789 173(3)
Appendix 2. Exeter Monthly Meeting Membership List--1750 176(3)
Appendix 3. Exeter Monthly Meeting Membership List--1775 179(5)
Notes 184(27)
Bibliography 211(30)
Index 241

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