It caught my eye as I was driving by and saw the historical plaque on the face of the building and the granite stone foundation. This house is used as a meeting place for the Quaker religious Society of Friends and also as a children's day care center. It is used for meeting concerning local issues, which are supported by such organizations as Peace and Social Concerns, Ministry and Council and Religious Education. This building was built in 1768 and was built to accommodate both men and women based meetings with in-house dividers to insure privacy. It seems to be a saltbox colonial with a granite stone foundation with three floors, all of which very wide open. It has symmetrical windows and board structure, with a schoolhouse appearance.
Once the Quaker movement came to Dover, the Society of Friends opened their doors to support the Quaker religion during the Puritan revolution in the 1650's and gave them a place to the voice of spirit in long moments of silence. By 1676, the Penacook Indians lived in harmony along side the colonists until a portion of the Wampanoag tribe from Massachusetts were fooled into custody by the Dover militia and sent to slavery and, in some cases, death in Boston. The peace between the Penacooks and the colonists soon grew strained and in 1689, the Penacooks attacked the houses of the Dover settlers. killing and capturing 49 people. One of the most famous of the captives was Mary Otis, who was rescued shortly after and was returned to Dover to wed Ebenezer Varney and established the Society of Friends after it had deteriorated before the trouble with the Massachusetts Indians. She then took the only remaining peace of her grandfather's burned house, which was a small anvil, to the rest of the Quakers and convinced them that it should be worshiped as an "altar of peace".
As I walked through this building I saw the anvil and, on the side of the wood block it was attached to, it said "Given by Mary Otis as an altar of peace and taken from her grandfather's house in Dover after it was burned by the Indians in 1679.
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Quakers, or the Society of Friends, is a religion that emerged in the mid 1600's in England. ... The Quakers believed that religion should be practiced more in your heart than in a church. ... The Quakers in North America, while still being persecuted in some areas, were tolerated in two colonies, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, where the Quakers established themselves politically1. ... It was in 1661, when William Penn was introduced to the Quaker religion. ... This disbelief led to start going to Quaker meetings, and to eventually turn a new leaf and join the Society of Friends. ...
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Dolly was born the first girl in a family of several children to Quaker parents, John Payne and Mary Coles. ... In Philadelphia Dolly brought loveliness and charm to the Quaker Evening Meetings. ... Under her Quaker gown Dolly's heart yearned, frankly and without any shame, for these things. ... His father was an eminent Quaker schoolteacher; John was a prominent young lawyer, twenty-seven years old. ... Now there was a new Philadelphia for Quaker Dolly, the Philadelphia she had always longed for. ...
Persecution against slaves continued on through out the Revolutionary War but in 1775 the Philadelphia Quakers decided this persecution of innocent people should be no longer. The Philadelphia Quakers established the first antislavery society, which started giving black slaves a chance at freedom. ...
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The Quakers received little freedom to practice their convictions due to the beliefs of the Puritans. ... Here Jews, Catholics and Quakers could find shelter and tolerance. ... Unlike the religious freedom in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania was Quaker dominant. Founded by William Penn, Pennsylvania was intended to be asylum for Quakers, but they welcomed other religions. The Quakers could hold their meetings, fallowing their religious rules and express religious and civic freedom. ...
Lucretia Coffin Mott was born a Quaker in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1793. At the age of 13, Lucretia Coffin was sent to a co-educational Quaker school in New York where she met her future husband James Mott. ... In 1818 Lucretia Mott began to speak at Quaker meetings and in 1821 she became a minister in the Society of Friends in Philadelphia. ... In the 1820s there was a split between the more conservative Quakers and the less orthodox followers of Elias Hicks. ... Even though Mott was a Quaker preaching non-violence, she hoped the Civil War would end slavery. ...
The Quakers were people of deep conviction. ... Quakers were simple, devoted, and democratic people. The Quakers made a determined effort to get along with the Indians. ... The Quakers produced and exported grain and other foods as a result of their clever business manners. ... Both the Puritans and the Quakers left England in pursuit of religious freedom. ...
