Quaker Hill / A Sociological Study

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Excerpt from Quaker Hill in the Eighteenth CenturyIn the eighteenth century Quaker Hill was the chosen asylum of men ot peace. Yet it became equally the rallying place of periodic outbursts of the fighting Spirit of that warlike age; and it was invaded during the great Struggle for national independence by the camps of Washington. There is a dignity common to the noble Washington battling for liberty, and the Quaker pioneer serenely planning seven years before the Revolution for the freedom of the slave. But he was a Revolutionist, they were loyal to King George he was a man of blood, brillian...