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    Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel, also known as Providence Meeting House, is a historic chapel and cemetery located on Quaker Church Road about 2...
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  • Woodlands Cemetery West Laurel Hill Cemetery Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel, Perryopolis Washington Crossing National Cemetery List of cemeteries in the...
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    District and Whitsett Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also listed are the Alliance Furnace, Providence Quaker Cemetery...
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  • Friends Meetinghouse, Plymouth Township, Montgomery County Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel, Perryopolis, Fayette County, NRHP-listed Race Street Friends...
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    Nail Factory (1812), and Palmer's Mills (1802). The first school in the township was the Blue Hill School near Chapel and Providence roads, started with...
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  • and Cemetery near Elizabethtown; NRHP-listed St. Philip's Church, Brunswick Town; NRHP-listed Vance Cemetery in Weaverville Quaker Meadows Cemetery near...
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  • Friends meeting houses in Pennsylvania (category Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania)
    for the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. A "meeting" is the equivalent of a church congregation, and a "meeting house" is the equivalent of a...
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    National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Pennsylvania (category Buildings and structures in Fayette County, Pennsylvania)
    properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. There are 68 properties and districts...
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    thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. Penn, an advocate of democracy and religious...
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    He is buried in the Quaker Cemetery, Leicester, Massachusetts. He designed university buildings, commercial buildings, churches, and more. Among his university...
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    List of the oldest churches in the United States (category Lists of oldest buildings and structures in the United States)
    (Baptist) Blue River Friends Hicksite Meeting House and Cemetery, oldest meeting house, built in 1815 (Quaker) St. Raphael's Cathedral (Dubuque, Iowa), oldest...
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    Saylesville, Rhode Island (category Historic districts in Providence County, Rhode Island)
    (built 1704) is one of the oldest surviving Quaker (Society of Friends) meeting houses in New England and one of the oldest church buildings in Rhode...
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  • Rebecca Boone (category Burials at Frankfort Cemetery)
    the Quakers when he allowed his son to marry a woman who was not a Quaker. The family first moved to Virginia in 1750, and then to the Providence of North...
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    Henry H. Goddard (category Quaker writers)
    the Damascus Academy, a Quaker school in Damascus, Ohio, where he also taught several subjects and conducted chapel services and prayer meetings. On August...
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  • Eleanor R. (2003). Naomi Wise: Creation, Re-Creation, and Continuity in an American Ballad Tradition. Chapel Hill. ISBN 1-880849-55-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint:...
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  • Massachusetts (1757) Southampton Baptist Church and Cemetery, Pennsylvania (1772) First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island (1775) Mount Bethel Baptist...
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    but the buildings continued to be used, as a silk mill and relief prison, particularly for Quakers, until it was finally demolished in the early 19th century...
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    Touro Synagogue (category Spanish and Portuguese Jews)
    Israel in New York. The keys left the Jewish community and were passed to the Goulds, a Quaker family in Newport. From the 1850s on, the building was...
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  • List of places of worship in the City of Leeds (category Religious buildings and structures in Leeds)
    dedicated to Brigantia and a stone slab with an inscription surrounding a phallus are both preserved in Adel parish church. There was a chapel in Beeston with...
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    William Coddington (category 17th-century Quakers)
    Massachusetts Bay Colony and later of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He served as the judge of Portsmouth and Newport in that colony...
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    Joseph Hewes (category Quaker slave owners)
    of the Declaration of Independence The Quaker records tell us that Joseph Hewes, son of Aaron and Providence, was born on the 28th day of the 4th month...
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    transatlantic slave trade. In Colonial America, a few German Quakers issued the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, which marked the beginning of...
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  • List for England, retrieved 22 August 2020 Historic England, "Chapel at Cleckheaton Cemetery, Cleckheaton (1135413)", National Heritage List for England...
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  • List of the oldest buildings in Maryland (category Lists of oldest buildings and structures in the United States)
    2014. Retrieved May 6, 2014. "Fort Lincoln Funeral Home & Cemetery | Funeral, Cremation & Cemetery". "Maryland's National Register Properties: Holly Hill"...
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  • in London. The Terrific Register: Or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences, and Calamities is first published. Approximate date: London is estimated...
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    who served as a missionary in China and was the founder of the Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence. He also organized the first expression...
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    co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its influential charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in...
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    " He believed that Jewish achievement was a result of divine providence: The state and progress of the Jews, from their earliest history to the present...
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  • Willet died August 4, 1674, and was buried in the Little Neck Cemetery at Bullock's Cove, Riverside area of East Providence, Rhode Island. Mary Willett...
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    Amos Bronson Alcott (category Burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts))
    Attendance at Alcott's school was falling when a wealthy Quaker named Reuben Haines III proposed that he and educator William Russell start a new school in Pennsylvania...
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