Tag: Friends
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Quaker Genes: The Quakening, Part 4, featuring Daniel Gould
Mary Dyer disembarked from the Woodhouse to find things much changed in Newport. There was new construction everywhere, including the mooring dock on which she stood. Word of their arrival electrified Newport Town, and before long Mary could see her husband striding towards her, trying his very best not to break into a run. BTW,…
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Quaker Genes: The Quakening, Part 1: Founding the Friends, featuring George Fox and Mary Fisher
As with many political movements, the reformers become the tyrants once they reach a certain level of power. Even in the fledgling days of the United States of America, men who had filled Boston Harbor full of tea to protest a tax on tea, and fought a war to free themselves from the “tyranny of…