History ... people ...
Notes on individual historical Quaker
figures
George Fox (1624-1691) considered by many to be the founder of
British (and world) Quakers (online biographical details here)
An online version of the Journal of George Fox from 1666 is available
here and many
more of Fox's writings are
here.
On the right are the closing words and Fox's initials from a letter
sent to Thomas Curtis and other Friends in
prison at Reading (undated) from quakerpedia
William
Penn
(1644-1718) Quaker
founder of
Pennsylvania on a US stamp on the 250th anniversary of
his arrival (online biographical details
here)
Penn's paper
Primitive Christianity
Revived from 1696 is
here
His tract
No Cross No Crown
of 1682 is
here
On the right is Penn's signature from an undated short essay
(from quakerpedia)
Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) Quaker prison reformer, on the back of
the UK
£5 note issued in 2002 (online biography
here)
The full published text of
"Notes
on a visit paid to some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of
England" (by Fry and her brother Joseph John Gurney, 1819) is
online
here.
John
Woolman
(1720-1772)
was
the
gentle
conscience
of Quakerism (online
biographical details here). He was
born in 1720 on
the family farm on Rancocas Creek in New Jersey, and went to school
with the other Quaker children and with Indian children in a
schoolhouse twenty feet square. In addition to his Journal he wrote
many other works, including
letters
and essays on subjects such as the ethical problems of business, the
peace testimony, and slavery.
The
Journal of John Woolman
of 1772 is
here.
More
of
Woolman's
writings
are
here.
The photograph shows the chair (in York) in which John Woolman died
visiting England in 1772 - there are no portraits of Woolman.
James Nayler
(1618–1660) was among the members of the Valiant Sixty, a group of
early Quaker preachers and missionaries (online biographical details
here)
James Nayler's Spiritual Writings (from 1653 to 1660) are
here.
On the right is the signature
of Nayler (or Naylor) from a letter to Margaret Fell in 1658 (from
quakerpedia)
