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

I have an interest in early Quakers in Northamptonshire. One line of my family is related to Elizabeth Haddon who migrated from England to Haddonfeld, NJ which had been purchased for her by her father, John Haddon originally from Northampton but later lived in Southwark, London. I have a website on nonconformists in Northamptonshire www.edintone.com

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Thank you for the link, Graham. Haddonfield, NJ was home to one of my uncles and his family for many decades so it is interesting to know the origin of the place name. We are glad to welcome you to the Quakers Project and I know my colleague Michael has been in contact via private message.

Answer 2

Strangely, I just sent a PM to one of the Project Leaders 20 minutes ago asking how I would join this project before I found the G2G post. I have an interest in one line of my family which is Quaker in the 18th century.

I would love to join the project and learn more about how I can improve profiles for this line of my family and perhaps how I can help with the projet in general.

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Hello, Matthew. I see we are 9th cousins two times removed. I've awarded you the Quakers Project badge. The Quakers Project conducts most of its assistance and group research efforts through the G2G forum so if there is anything with which we can assist, feel free to post in G2G.

Answer 3

I don’t really have the time or resources (or knowledge) to be on the Quakers team, but do know that a Quaker heritage traces back through my great grandfather, Augustus Taber Murray. He was invited by Herbert Hoover to form a meeting house in Washington D.C., then returned as a classics professor at Stanford University.

Answer 4

I am trying to find my Quaker ancestors. I also find Quakers to be quite interesting.

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Welcome to the project, Melanie. We look forward to your contributions and our project members are here to assist with anything.

Answer 5

My earliest Quaker immigrant ancestors are John Palmer Jr (1665-1726) from Yorkshire, England and Christiana Joses (1654-1740).  They settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania along with others answering the invitation of William Penn.  In my Ancestry tree I've traced some of the line to the present day.

I'd like to learn more about these people and contribute as I can.

Patricia Lamkin Lange

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Welcome to the project, Patricia. Many of my Quaker ancestors also passed through Bucks County.

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I believe I'm connected to the Palmers too, through descendants who married Hibbses.

Answer 6

Only recently did I discover that my original fraternal (Richardson) ancestors were from the mid-1600 Quaker community in Maryland (West River and elsewhere). As I am caretaker for my Alzheimer's afflicted wife, I find little time for research, but would appreciate being 'connected' to this project.

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Hi, Charles. I am pleased to award you the Quakers Project badge and welcome you to our community.

Answer 7

NATHANIEL WALTON OF BYBERRY PA IS PROVEN BUT A SLEW FROM WESTERN NY NOT YET CONNECTED

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Deb, were you wanting to join the project?

Answer 8

My family has been heavily associated with the quaker society for over 250 years.  My immigrant ancestor Henry Knowles became a Quaker sometime around 1650 in Rhode Island.  He was there when George Fox visited. The family "kept the faith" until 1900 when the movement started to break apart.  Most of my research involved Quakers in Rhode Island, Vermont, and Lower Canada.  The records The Quakers kept were a great help in my genealogy work.  I am interested in joining the Quaker project and contributing wha I can.

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Welcome to the project, Bradley, and we look forward to your contributions and helping you whenever you need assistance.

Answer 9

I'd love to be a part of this project. I've been researching Friends culture in PA, ME, Ireland, London, and the West Indies and I find it fascinating. I think others would be blown away by the interesting history! Family names that introduced me to this great topic include: Price, Richardson, Nicholson, Longstreth, Grubb, Pim, Morris, Parrish, Clark, Callendar, (among other non-family: Oxley, Dillwyn, etc!).

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Welcome to the Quakers Project, Gerry. I'll get back to you on the Irish records question. Anytime you need assistance or find something fascinating to share, just post in G2G.

Answer 10

My ancestors include the Lippincott, Gaskill, Shinn, Southwick, Shattock, and Carter families of NJ, RI, and MA. I have done some work on WikiTree with my Quaker ancestor's profiles before and am interested in working on the Mount Holly Meeting in NJ.

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Russ, it is great to have you as part of the project. Keep us posted on your research on the Mount Holly Meeting.

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I, too, descend from the Shattock/Shattuck family and the Pope family of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  Also, the Wing Family of MA who were early Quakers.

Answer 11

I have interest in (and limited time to help with) increasing WikiTree coverage of Quakers.  I have connections to the following (18th century mid-Atlantic) families and monthly meetings: Cook, Dell, Gifford, Hogge, Key, Kirk, Swayne, Wickersham, Yearsley; Bradford MM, Chester MM, Kennett MM, New Garde MM, West Grove MM

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Hello, Eric. I see we are 8th cousins 2x removed through the 17th Century Crandall family. We are happy to accept whatever limited time you may offer to the project. Welcome.

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I'm like Eric and others.  My Youngblood(Jungblut) family in PA and disputed territory MD removed to Orange Co, NC received in the Quaker Church there.  Got involved in the Regulator War and one Jacob married outside the faith...looks like most all went to the Baptists...some to Methodist.

Time is short but I could possibly help some with this surname lineage

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Hi, Larry from Texas. We'll be glad for the contributions you are able to make. One branch of my NC Quakers also got mixed up in the Regulator madness.

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I don't know if there is a Quaker connection. I have relatives named Youngblood. There are a few genealogy books printed on 3 of my lines. I will look up Youngbloods in my line. I recently saw a story I saw on YouTube of cemeteries of Quakers who traveled to Georgia. 

I don't know if there is a list of the people buried in the 3 cemeteries mentioned on Google in the Atlanta area.

Quaker Cemetery in McDuffie County, Georgia - People Legacy

Thomson, Georgia,

 

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Would love to know your lineage of Youngbloods.  Many of my relative ancestors moved to GA with stops in AL, MS, LA , Texas and to the west coast.

I have tracked them with my Youngblood YDNA test proejct.

Larry

Answer 12

Thanks for the update.  I signed up a couple years ago but have not had any contact with others doing research on members of the Religious Society of Friends. 

My own family has a continuous Quaker lineage from Lawrence Southwick & Cassandra Burnell (who became convinced in 1657 as I recall - just five years after the beginning of this religious philosophy), as follows:

Lawrence & Cassandra

Daniel Southwick & Esther Boyce

Daniel Southwick & Jane (unknown)

Jonathan Southwick & Hannah Osborn

George Southwick & Lydia Sargent

Jonathan Southwick & Martha Irish

Nehemiah Hull & Hannah Southwick

George Hull & Julia Etta Vogan

G. Albert Hull & Ethel May Brooks

William Brooks Hull & Georgena Marie Clements

William Brooks Hull - yours truly

In addition, Nehemiah Hull's parents, Daniel Hull & Ruth Barnum, became members of the Oblong Monthly Meeting in 1774 (Daniel) and 1782 (Ruth).

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If the project members can assist you with any of your research, just start a new G2G thread and let's see if we can help.

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Thanks!  This line of my family has been well documented for many years.  I have also utilized the James Hazard Index available online through Swarthmore University,

On a side note:  my great grandfather, George Hull, grew up attending silent Meetings, which I have been told he disliked.  After his marriage to Julia Etta Vogan (who grew up attending the Methodist Episcopal Church), George became a minister and organized a program Meeting at the almost defunct Hartland Monthly Meeting (in a cobblestone Meeting house) in Niagara County.  A few years later the family moved three miles south to Gasport, New York, to which they moved the Meeting about 1912.

Answer 13

I have numerous Quakers in my ancestry: Woodward, Cook, Millikan of Chester Co, PA, who migrated to New Garden MM, Guilford, NC, thence to Lost creek MM, Jefferson, TN, Indiana, Iowa, & settled in Shasta and Tehama Co, Northern California.  I also have the Hamptons of 1687 Elizabeth City, NJ who also immigrated from Scotland.  My ancestor immigrated to NY, Michigan, Tehama Co, CA.  My surname is Hampton and my Grandmother was a Woodward.

Answer 14

I have many Quaker ancestors starting with the Pims, who I understand were some of the first converts in England in the 1640's and later came to America.

Answer 15

I would like to be included in the Quaker Project. I have a significant amount of Quaker ancestors from Sandwich, and other early towns of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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Welcome to the project, Don. Looking forward to your contributions and let us know if we can assist you with any of your research.

Answer 16

I am interested in this because I have conflicting information about my Whitaker ancestors who came from Yorkshire, England, to Chester County, PA, in 1720-21.

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Welcome to the project, Virginia. Please create a new G2G thread regarding your Whitaker ancestors and let's see if the project members can help you with the conflicting information.

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OK! Please tell me how to do that. I've never participated in a group project before.

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I sent you a private message on setting up the G2G question.

Answer 17

I have a branch or more of Quakers in my ancestry, but haven't marked them so cannot always remember which line they are in.  I know you and I have an ancestor, Susannah Pierson Mendenhall, in common, which makes us 8th cousins, 1x removed, and I do know of their staunch Quaker membership in Pennsylvania.  I also have Quaker heritage through Henry Jermyn, 23 Nov 1736- 31 May 1811 who  married Ann Burr 7 Nov 1745-21 Mar 1797 and resided in Baldock, Hertfordshire, England.  Their daughter, Ann,  my great grandmother x4 was married in the Church of England.  I  am descended from Roger Williams, who gave Quakers space to settle in Rhode Island, though he did not prefer their ideology.  It would be good to think of respect for, if not embrace of all ideals. To that end, I don't have a lot of expertise, but i would like to mark my ancestors that I know of being Quakers, to aid in this Project.

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Hi, cousin, and welcome to the Quakers Project. If you'd like assistance with anything just post in G2G or drop me a message.

Answer 18

I don't have much time to participate actively, but would like to be "in the loop" on the Quaker Project, having an interest in my Quaker ancestors the Day, Garretson, and Jones families of colonial PA and later NC, and Husseys of Mass Bay Colony later of PA.

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Hi, J. The best way to stay "in the loop" is to add Quakers to the tags which you follow at WikiTree. Then when you click the "My Feed" tab anything in G2G involving the Quakers project will be in the list of discussions shown to you.

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Thank you, Stanton.

Answer 19

I just found several ancestors that were Quakers. I love doing family history. Being able to help with the project could help someone make a new discovery. I am looking at the north east states as well as Penn, and Ohio. Thank you

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Hi, Sandra. Please take a moment to sign the Honor Code so that you can enjoy all the benefits of WikiTree and become a project member. 

Answer 20

Researching Dunn's in Wrightsboro, Georgia