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Fox, George 1624-1691
Founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, England, in July, 1624.
His fathe his son an education beyond reading and writing.
The son, who
George Fox. was grave and contemplative in temperament, was apprenticed to a Island, and New Jersey, visiting Friends wherever they were seated.
Fox afterwards visited Holland and parts of Germany.
His writings upon s, who denied the pretensions to spiritual enlightenment, challenged Fox to disputation.
Before the challenge was received, Fox had departedFox had departed, but three of his disciples at Newport accepted it. Williams went there in an open boat, 30 miles from Providence, and, though over seventy quarrel.
Williams published an account of it, with the title of George Fox digged out of his Burrowes; to which Fox replied in a pamphlet end out of his Burrowes; to which Fox replied in a pamphlet entitled, A New England Firebrand quenched.
Neither was sparing in sharp epithets.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Friends, Society of (search)
Friends, Society of
Otherwise known as Quakers, claim as their founder George Fox (q. v.), an Englishman; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, in 1624.
The first general meeting of Friends was held in 1668, and the second in 1672.
Owing to the severe persecution which they suffered in England, a number of them came to America in 1656, and landed at Boston, whence they were later scattered by persecution.
The first annual meeting in America is said to have been held in Rhode Island in 1661.
It was separated from the London annual meeting in 1683.
This meeting was held regularly at Newport till 1878, since when it has alternated between Newport and Portland,
Quaker Exhorter in colonial New England. Me. Annual meetings were founded in Maryland in 1672, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1681, in North Carolina in 1708, and in Ohio in 1812.
The Friends have no creed, and no sacraments.
They claim that a spiritual baptism and a spiritual communion without outward signs are all
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spiritualism , or spiritism , (search)