Quaker Founder George Fox (1624-1691) was born 400 years ago this year; William Penn (1644-1718) was born 20 years later, on this day. I am descended from Quakers on both sides of my family. Religious toleration in Rhode Island allowed Quakers (persecuted in both England and Puritan Massachusetts) to become the dominant political and cultural […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:24PM on October 24, 2024