Goal: Our project aims to examine the many conceptions and definitions of secession through the lens of the 17th-century Quaker community. The project will cover about 1650 to 1690 which is a period that includes the events leading up to and immediately after the falling out between the Quakers and Puritans. This will examine this […]
Month: March 2017
Spring Break Update
Unfortunately, my time over Spring Break ended up far less fruitful that I had originally anticipated. The contact that I was able to make with an archive in Boston was out of town while I was in the surrounding area, and I did not have the time that I expected to be able to go […]
Working Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Baltzell, E. Digby. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia. New York: Free Press, 1980. Gevitz, Norman. “”Pray Let the Medicines Be Good”: The New England Apothecary in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries.” Pharmacy in History 41, no. 3 (1999): 87-101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41111948. Jordan, David W. “”Gods Candle” within Government: Quakers and Politics in Early Maryland.” The […]