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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Sweden, founding of (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Noyes , John Humphrey 1811 -1886 (search)
Noyes, John Humphrey 1811-1886
Clergyman; born in Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 6, 1811; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1830; licensed to preach in 1833, and in the following year declared he had experienced a second conversion.
Hefounded a new sect called Perfectionists in Putnam county, Vt. After twelve years he imbibed some of the teachings of Fourier and persuaded his disciples to live in communities.
In 1848 he went with his followers to Oneida, N. Y., where he established the Oneida Community.
He taught that God had a dual body— male and female.
The only successful communities, those founded at Oneida, N. Y., and Wallingford, Conn., adopted what was named complex marriage, and lived in a unity house.
Subsequently they were compelled to abandon complex marriage and their number soon diminished.
Noyes published The second coming of Christ; History of American socialism, etc. He died in Niagara Falls, Canada, April 13, 188
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parker , Theodore 1810 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pastorius , Francis Daniel -1681 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pauperism in the United States . (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Puritans, (search)
Quakers.
The sect of Friends, who were called Quakers in derision, was founded at about the middle of the seventeenth century.
At first they were called Professors (or children) of the light, because of their fundamental principle that the light of Christ within was God's gift of salvation—that Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
It is said that George Fox (q. v.), the founder of the sect, when brought before magistrates at Derby, England, in 1650, told them to quake before the Lord, when one of them (Gervase Bennet) caught up the word quake, and was the first who called the sect Quakers.
They were generally known by that name afterwards.
They spread rapidly in England, and were severely persecuted by the Church and State.
At one time there were 4,000 of them in loathsome prisons in England.
The most prominent of Fox's disciples was William Penn, who did much to alleviate their sufferings.
Many died in prison or from the effects of imprisonment.
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