Having grown up in Chester County ,
the Quakers just always were there. I never really thought about how they got
to Chester County or where they came from. They
were just always such a big impressive historical influence on the area, its
people and her history. However, they – like the rest of us – had to have come
at some time and from some where, right?
It was On This Day though that the first Quaker colonists
landed at Boston
in 1656, according to History.com.
Ann Austin and Mary Fisher were two Englishwomen who came
from Barbados ,
where the Quakers were active in missionary work. Austin and Fisher, in 1656,
then were the first two Quakers to immigrate to America . Their ship landed in the
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The ladies did not have an easy time here in America and in fact they were arrested, jailed
and deported to Barbados .
They left such an impression, with their liberal teachings, on the Puritans
that the Massachusetts
government at that time (October 1656) actually banned Quakers.
The Quakers are also known as the Religious Society of Friends.
Source:
On This
Day is a prompt to further explore historical events.
©
Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2015
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