[Quakers]: [American Revolution]: Pemberton, James:

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EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES OF OUR YEARLY MEETING FOR PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY HELD IN PHILADELPHIA BY ADJOURNMENT FROM THE 28 DAY OF THE 9TH MO. TO THE 5TH OF YE 10 MO. INCLUSIVE 1778 [manuscript ... A manuscript fair copy of extracts from the minutes of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, held in Philadelphia between September 28 and October 5, 1778, signed by James Pemberton, clerk of the Yearly Meeting, who a year earlier had been among the so-called "Quaker exiles," the twenty Pennsylvania Friends who were rounded up, held without a hearing, and banished to the Virginia frontier for refusing to take up arms on behalf of the American cause or take an oath of allegiance during the Revolution.Two of the extracts deal directly with issues relating to the "sufferings" endured by Quakers during the ongoing war. Under consideration by the Yearly Meeting were the "many weighty matters relating to our Christian Testimony" and the "extended Endeavours used for the relief of divers of our brethren, who have been brought under sufferings, some of whom still continue in bonds, and Imprisonment for their faithfullness to the Testimony of truth, & good conscience." Also addressed was the related "subject of the declaration of allegiance and abjuration required by some late laws passed by the legislatures," with the Yearly Meeting declaring that, whereas "in some places, fines, & Taxes, are and have been im

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