The Quaker congregation in what is now Dover, New Hampshire, is one of the oldest in the world, taking root in a northern New England seaport a mere decade after the radical religious movement broke forth in Britain. They wouldn't have called it a congregation, actually, or even a church. For them, as well as their rival Puritans, the church was the people, the body of believers, rather than a building or an organization. For them, their assembly...
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