quakers middle colonies Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/quakers-middle-colonies Sat, 07 May 2016 12:07:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Quakers in the Colonies http://toursmaps.com/quakers-in-the-colonies.html http://toursmaps.com/quakers-in-the-colonies.html#respond Wed, 11 May 2016 00:36:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203886 Quakers actually entered the colonies much earlier than 1682, the traditional founding date for Pennsylvania. At the movement’s inception, in the early 1650s, Quakers came to New England in an effort to protest the residual religious forms that Puritans allegedly carried with them to Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Plymouth Colony. Like their English counterparts, colonial Quakers accused the Puritans of supporting a hireling clergy, practicing idolatry in the form of images and altarpieces, and encouraging spiritual deadness through written creeds and theologically sophisticated sermons. Officials in New England persecuted Quakers through imprisonment, banishment, and execution, most spectacularly in Massachusetts Bay

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