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Events1620 Pilgrims Arrive1621 First Thansgiving Day 1647 "Friends Of Truth" 1692-1693 Salem Witch Trials 1735 First Methodist Society Established 1730s Great Awakening ResourcesThe People's Chronology provides credible information from the beginning to the present of the United States events.Resource 2 Updated
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Religion in Colonial AmericaBy Lawanda BrewerType Essay here George Fox at the age of 23 established "Friends in Truth" later known as the Quakers in Leiestershire, England. He feels that there is a need in his life for a new experience of spiritually. Justice Gervase Bennet renamed the "Friends" Quakers in 1650. He notices that they express great emotion with shaking and procliam that people who do not "quake" and shake are blind ti the teachings of Moses, David, and other biblical saint's experinces.The irst meeting of the Quakers was in 1669 in Scotland. Prior to his death in 1691 Fox preaches in Ireland, North America, the West Indies, and Holland even the he was persecuted and even imprisoned. |