The History Of The Society Of Friends In America (Volume 1)

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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Eight Ministers of the Society arrive at Boston from London-Their trunks are searched-They are committed to prison and sentenced to banishment-The captain who brought them, bound over to take them back to England-The magistrates take measures to legalize their persecuting proceedings-A law is enacted for banishing Friends from the colony of Boston-Nicholas Upshal testifies against the law -He is arrested, fined, imprisoned, and banished-He seeks refuge within the colony of Plymouth, and winters there-Is banished thence, and proceeds to Rhode Island. In the expulsion of Friends from New England, the rulers of Boston had evidently much underrated the task which they had unhappily imposed upon themselves ; and well would it have been for their country had their actions responded to the advice given by Gamaliel, in reference to the preaching of the Apostles at Jerusalem, when the Jews sought to slay them : " Kefrain from these men, and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." Scarcely had the ship, which bore the two messengers of the gospel from the shores of Massachusetts, bent her course towards the Carribbean sea, when another vessel from London, having on board eight other Friends, arrived in Boston Bay. These were Christopher Holder, John Copeland, Thomas Thurston, William Brend, Mary Prince, Sarah Gibbons, Mary Weatherhead, and Dorothy Waugh.f The date of their Acts v. 38. t In a letter of John Audland's to Margaret Fell, written during 1655, from Bristol, we find the following remark in reference to some of these. " Many are raised up and moved for several parts ; there are four from hereaway moved to go for New England, two men and two women ; some are gone for F...

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