North Carolina Quakers: Spring Friends Meeting

by Spring Friends Meeting, J. Timothy Allen, Spring Friends Meeting

Book Overview

In the 1750s, Quakers from Pennsylvania and Virginia settled in the North Carolina Piedmont, eventually organizing Spring Friends Meeting in 1763. The Friends still gather by the spring and wait for the light to descend upon them 250 years later. Spring Meeting nursed the injured and dying in the American Revolution, said goodbye to members migrating to farmlands in the Northwest, stood against slavery in the antebellum years, helped reconstruct the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073858231X
• ISBN13: 9780738582313
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"