Would you like to join the Quakers Project? This is the Place.

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If you have Quaker ancestors - or just a general interest in Quaker history - why not join the Quakers Project?

We work together to increase WikiTree's coverage of Quakers, to improve existing Quaker profiles, to link Quakers to Monthly Quaker meetings, to identify sources and repositories, to manage profiles of historically significant Quakers, and more. You can find out more on the Project home page.

If this appeals to you, please use the answer box below to let us know your interests: for example Quakers from particular families or Quakers in a particular geographical area. We look forward to welcoming you and awarding you the Project Badge.

Edit: we have a lot of new members joining so I want to place this link where it is easily found. Here is the main Quakers Project Resources Page. From that link you can find a great many sources and resources.

Answer 1

My interests include mainly the Quakers in my family, from those who came over before Wm Penn, those that came over with Penn on the Welcome, the roles they played in the founding of Philadelphia, Chester County, and various areas in New Jersey and then later in Virginia and Ohio.

Bob Test

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Glad to see your continuing interest in Quakers! I see you joined the Quakers Project in 2018. Please do contribute more Quaker information to WikiTree if you are able to.

Answer 2

A large portion of my family were quakers. Makes sense for me to join the group as the connections could be significant.

Steven Chambers

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Hello 11th cousin Steven. Happy to have you join the project and I have added the project badge to your profile. If other project members can assist you with any research, just post a question in G2G with Quakers among the tags.

Answer 3

Hello all. I am the descendant of several early colonial Quaker families that were members of the Mount Holly meeting in Burlington County, New Jersey. I learned about this project when I saw a Quaker badge on my 5th great-grandmother's sister's profile.

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Thanks, Russ. i see you have been a member of the Quakers Project since August 2021. Please do what you can to improve Quaker profiles and WikiTree's coverage of Quakers.

Answer 4

I'd like to join the Quaker project please. I have ancestry from the North Carolina/ South Carolina border where a lot of Quakers lived. I'd love to be able to have them on WikiTree. They would have been a part of the Pee-Dee Meeting.

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Welcome to the project, Cindy. I have several ancestors who were members at Pee-Dee. If you would like assistance with any of your research, just post in G2G and use the tag quakers.

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Many thanks! I find them all the time in records, they were all over the place. Happy to start documenting them. I'll be sure to ask for help!

Answer 5

My grandmother, Florence (Proctor) Hudson died before I was born but my mother told me her mother had been a member of The Society of Friends,  I only found this out because I had used the term "Quaker" and my mother told me that they did not like to be called that.  When I asked how she knew she said that her mother had been a member.  Now I see they call themselves Quakers.  Florence's mother was Annie (Fell) Proctor whose father was a mining engineer called William Fell, born in Cumberland.  I know that Fells had an important role in the beginnings of Quakerism and I can't help but wonder if there is a link to the Fells of Swarthmore Hall at Ulverston.  I have read a County report of several Fells buried in the graveyard there.  Ulverston is in Lancashire, but I think it was a Cumbria County report.

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Thanks for asking, Judith. I am not aware of any connection with the Fells of Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston, but it is not impossible. You would need to see what you can do to trace your ancestry back further than William Fell, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fell-1825. 

Do you want to join the Quakers Project? 

Michael Cayley, co-leader, Quakers Project

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I am interested but I am not sure if I would be able to help much.  Thank you for the link - I'll have a look at it.

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Oh, the link is to the entry I put into WikiTree myself!  Never mind.  

Answer 6

Hello,

I didn't realize I have a few ancestor names that were Quakers, and I had no idea.  I am anxious to learn more about them, and the religion.  The names that stand out are Coffin, Hathaway and Starbuck.

Thank you for your consideration.

Adam Blossom

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Welcome to the project, Adam. If you need any assistance in exploring these families or getting some added that are not yet here just post in G2G and someone from the project will be happy to assist.

Answer 7

I would like to join the Quaker project. Multiple lines on mother's paternal side including Johnson, Hadley, Griffith - Welsh and English/Irish, originally settled in Philadelphia and Delaware.

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Hello 9th cousin twice removed. Welcome to the Quakers Project and if you'd like assistance in any of your research, just post in G2G and someone from the project will be glad to assist.

Answer 8

I would love to join the Quaker Project.  I have found that 5 branches of my family were Quakers and have added stickers to their profile pages.

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Wow, another 9th cousin joining in the project today. Welcome to the Quakers Project and if you'd like assistance in any of your research, just post in G2G and someone from the project will be glad to assist.

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Hi Coz and thanks for adding me!

Answer 9

I have collected but not yet posted information on the members of the Mendham/Randolph New Jersey Friends Meeting, 1758-1865.  I am President of the Association that maintains the original 1758 Meeting House and Cemetery.  We are trying to locate individuals who are descendants of this Meeting and may have information about their ancestors.  Unlike the Philadelphia meetings, Friends who left this meeting generall went north to NY and Canada or west to Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

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Are the meeting minutes for Mendham/Randolph published in digital or print form? I don't believe any of my ancestors were in that meeting so I've never searched for the records.

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This link https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Quaker_Meetings%2C_New_Jersey will show you which New Jersey meetings have members with WikiTree profiles.

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Some of the minutes are available online.  When founded as a preparative meeting in 1756, Mendham was under Woodbridge Monthly Meeting.  Those records are not online or in print.  Woodbridge was replaced by Plainfield.  The Woodbridge, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Minutes are online.  Hardwick and Mendham Monthly Meeting, MBD are also online.  Information can also be found in the Hazard Index, Swarthmore College.

Answer 10

I am the 4th great granddaughter of Joseph Hatton (Hatton-1878).  

I am also a member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.  Has anyone pursued getting Joseph approved as a patriot?  I know he did not join the militia, but did he contribute supplies to the effort?

I am also an occasional visitor at West Knoxville Friends Meeting.  

I look forward to contributing to the project.

Comments

Welcome to the project, K, and we are glad to have your participation. Not working with SAR or DAR, I am unfamiliar with their procedures but if you post that question in G2G I am sure someone will come along with the answer.

Answer 11

Hi, I am a descendent of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, the Quaker prison reformer, and have found a large number of Quaker and other non-conformist ancestors/relatives, so would very much like to join this project and find out more.

Comments

Welcome to the project, Lizzie. I see you have uploaded your GEDCOM for the GEDCOMpare process. Also, please review the page on Sources. Since many Quaker lineages are well-documented, we strive to place the specific citations on profiles rather than links to Ancestry or other sites. 

Answer 12

Hello, just starting to sort through my early Pennsylvania settlers to find the Quakers. Hoping to learn more about them and help with documentation.

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Would you like to join the project?

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Yes please!

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Welcome to the project. If we can help you with research, just post in G2G with the tag Quakers.

Answer 13

I have an interest in Pennsylvania Quakers.  Some of my Quaker ancestor surnames are Lewis, Mendenhall, Iddings.

Paula Lewis Picken

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Hello 10th cousin (via the Mendenhall family) and welcome to the project. Let us know if we can assist with any of your research.

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Thanks for the quick response, cousin.  I'm sure I will have questions in the near future.

Answer 14

Hello! I am thankful for my Friends ancestors who made this hobby soooo much easier  My specific Quaker interests are centered on Cane Creek MM in Chatham\Orange\Alamance counties of North Carolina and their associated meetings in Indiana and Ohio. Surnames are Moon, Kimball\Kimble, Lynch, Adams, Mendenhall, and Dixon. Thank you! Branson Kimball

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Hello 8th cousin! Welcome to the project. We are all so thankful George Fox exhorted our ancestors to write everything down!

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Hi cousin! Thank you for the warm welcome, and for your leadership with this project. Wishing you all the best

Answer 15

I'm interested in joining the Project because I have many Quaker ancestors, the most well-documented are these, and their descendants: (1) George Harlan, his wife Elizabeth Duck and their four children who arrived in what is now New Castle County Delaware in 1687. (2) John Cox and Rachel Embree Carr, who emigrated from Drayton Berkshire to Chester County PA in 1708 (3) John Hussey Sr and his wife Rebecca Perkins, whose respective families arrived in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the 1630s as Puritans but who became Quakers in mid-life. They then moved to Christiana Creek, New Castle Co. Delaware. (4) Robert Carr of Maidstone, Kent left the port of London on the 'Elizabeth & Ann' bound for New England on 9 May 1635. He married an unidentified wife and by Feb 1638/9, he was admitted as an inhabitant of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. 

Few of these profiles include any references to the religion that provided the structure and "guardrails" to their lives, or that take advantage of the information found in the records of the Monthly Meetings they attended. I'm sure that's not true of all the descendants of the four couples named above, I've just worked my branches, but going to those records have cleared up some questions we'd asked for a long time. 

Not all records have survived either, but those that do are  gold mines! Which we will not wear, or exhibit in any ostentatious manner, for we are a plain and simple people. 

Happy Rooting!

Deb [Cavel-3]

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Hello 8th cousin 1 time removed. I see you are already a member of the Quakers Project have been previously awarded the project badge.

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Hello Cousin, 

I am so sorry. Scrolling through my badges I see that I joined the project in 2017! I guess it's obvious that my 'forgetter' works better than my 'rememberer' these days. But joining seems to have been the extent of my participation. This is like hanging a poster of two skiers flying through powder on my wall and telling all and sundry that I went skiing over the weekend. 

So while I'm not a Newbie to the Quakers Project, perhaps I can be more engaged and useful this time around! (grin) 

Happy Rooting! 

Deb [Cavel-3]

Answer 16

My paternal line is Quaker and includes in more recent generations the surnames Russell, McCollin, Garrett (Thos. Garrett was my 3rd GGF), Masters, Mendenhall and Vail

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Hello 10th cousin and welcome to the project. If some of the project members can assist with your research, just post in G2G with the tag Quakers and someone will be along to help.

Answer 17

Unaffiliated Quaker in SE Georgia. Don't know if I have any relevant data to add but delighted to find this group.

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Glad to have you, Tom. Let us know if we can assist you in any research.

Answer 18

Interest: Religious Society of Friends

* Ireland (primary)
* Australia
* England

100's of lineal and collateral relationships; 1000's of affinal relationships

Comments

Welcome to the Project! Do ask in G2G if you need help with Quaker research.

Answer 19

Would like to join because our 4th Great Gpa & his wife were Quakers, married in 1810, Virginia. There is conflicting info on their wedding date, and am looking for more info

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Welcome to the project, Valerie. Let us know if you need assistance looking into the marriage of your 4th ggf.

Answer 20

Thank you for posting the invite. I found a Quaker in my tree Chase-872, remembered and placed the sticker, and I wanted to find more.

Joining this project will help in this pursuit but also in a wider appreciation for the little that I know about the Friends.

I am from Nova Scotia and I think that there would be some in history and maybe today.

Thank you for your consideration

andrew

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Welcome to the project, Andrew. There are a number of meetings today in Nova Scotia. You can find those meetings on this page of the Quaker.ca website.