CFM Roots: A Second Meetinghouse
…placed the deed of the meetinghouse in his care. “If anything should come up of this nature,” he wrote, “there will be a plea set up that I am disowned…
…placed the deed of the meetinghouse in his care. “If anything should come up of this nature,” he wrote, “there will be a plea set up that I am disowned…
…committee should be governed for the future to prevent improper interments.” The following month, they presented this recommendation: The committee appointed on the subject of the Burying Ground report that after…
…members of the meeting. In other cases, a member (or even an individual outside the meeting) might have approached the overseers with a complaint. After speaking with the individual privately,…
Since its beginnings in the 17th century, the Religious Society of Friends had dispensed with an official priesthood. This raised an important question within the community: how were marriages to…
…Discipline discouraged relocations, “especially where the inclination to such removals hath originated in worldly motives.” In other words, the advantages of maintaining a stable community should be weighed against the monetary…