Tag: Christopher Holder
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The Quakening, Part 6: The Martyrdom of Mary Dyer
Christopher Holder and his would-be savior Samuel Shattuck (my 10th GGF) were imprisoned and interrogated in Boston after the Salem incident (see our previous blog post). Also imprisoned were Holder’s companions Richard Doudney, who had accompanied Holder on the Woodhouse, and another named John Copeland. We have yet to mention Copeland, but be assured he…
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The Quakening, Part 5: The Mutilation of Christopher Holder, featuring Samuel Shattuck
Christopher Holder began teaching the tenets of George Fox from nearly the moment he stepped off the Woodhouse in Newport. He found resistance from some, including the Rev. Roger Williams, who was now Governor Williams. Introduced to Catherine Marbury Scott and her husband Richard Scott, Holder was to make his first converts. Catherine Scott was…
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Quaker Genes: The Quakening, Part 3 featuring Robert Fowler, Mary Dyer, and the Monster
My 9th Great-grandfather Rev. Christopher Fowler was born in 1611. He was a minister of the Church of England and a fellow at Eton College, but he was removed from both for “scandalous” behavior. He was said to have “used odd gestures and antic behavior from the pulpit” (Chalmers’ General Biographical Dictionary Vol. 15, p.…
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Quaker Genes: The Quakening, Part 2, featuring Richard Scott and Christopher Holder
Roger Williams is famously given credit for establishing the first English settlement in Rhode Island. But, according to the 1906 book Richard Scott and His Wife Catharine Marbury by Stephen F. Peckham, it was Scott who created the first settlement in what is now Lonsdale, Rhode Island, on the Blackstone River. Rev. William Blackstone (see…