Quaker history and biography

Edmund Rack, a Quaker, moved to Bath from rural Essex in 1775. He seems to have been self-confident, popular, charitable, and steadfast in his Quaker principles, a figure from Bath’s past it would have been good to know.

"A Testimony to the God as Shown in the Life of James Nayler 1618-1660"

This book has been written as an introduction to a remarkable man who was both a true Quaker of the Quietist years and a prolific writer.

This is memoir of the first twenty-five years of long life, blending a picture of a time long ago with the story of a thoughtful child growing up to face adulthood in a very different world.

Surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line. An English Quaker from County Durham, in 1763 Jeremiah Dixon became the joint architect of one of the most important boundaries in history: the Mason-Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, ...

A Memoir