William Allen, 1803-1875. American politician. He was an important leader of hte northern, antti-slavery, branch of the Democratic Party from about 1837.
Amesbury, MA, a small town on the New Hampshire border. John Greenleaf Whittier lived there, at 86 Friend St., and there wrote most of his poems.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 121-180. Rome is said to have had a sequence of five good emperors from 96 to 180 A.D. Marcus Aurelius was the last of these (the others were Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninum Pius). He was known for his firm hand in government and his devotion to Stoic philosophy. His philosophical beliefs were recorded in the Meditations which are still read.
Bernard Barton, 1784-1849. The famous "Quaker Poet" who enjoyed a brief vogue around 1812. He is known for two things: he was the father-in-law of Edward Fitzgerald; and a good friend of Charles Lamb, who convinced him to keep his day job rather than trying to make a living by his verse.
Anthony Benezet, 1713-1784. French protestant who was educated in Londaon and emigrated to America where he became a Quaker. Benezet started the first schools for slaves and freed Blacks in the colonies. He was a severe opponant of slavery, writing extensively against the practice and working to convince his fellow Quakers of its sinfulness.
Jacques-Pierre Brissot, 1754-1793. French lawyer and leader of the Girondist faction in the National Assembly. He was founder and served as president of the Société des Amis des Noirs, the leading French abolitionist society.
Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682. An Englishman of immense and varied learning. For most of his life he practiced medicine in Norwich, but he wrote on many subjects. He is best known (though almost never read) today for his books on antiquities, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus.
William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842. Boston Congregationalist minister and author, called "the apostle of Unitarianism". He was never an abolitionist, but his writings on labor and humanitarianism and the evils of slavery helped shape the next generation's views on emancipation. Channing was much admired by later writers including Emerson and Thoreau.
François-Jean de Beauvoir, Marquis de Chastellux, 1734-1788. French soldier and philosopher. member of the Acadamie Français. He was a major general in the French forces which took Yorktown during the Revolution.
John Churchman, 1705-1775, another famous American Quaker diarist. He travelled widely in America, Britain and Holland, visiting and ministereing to Quakers. His journal, An Account of the Gospel of Labours and Christian Experiences of Christ was published in 1779 and was widely read. A book of his sermons is said still to be in print, but I have found no evidence of this. Churchman was strongly opposed to slavery and his inflience on Woolman was signfificant. He joined Woolman in his "visits" to slave-holding Quakers in Pennsylvania in 1758-59.
Thomas Clarkson, 1760-1846. English anti-slavery writer. He was one of the founders of the Committee of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade in 1787. He and his wife Catherine had a wide correspondence among the Whigs of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Clarkson is generally given credit for creating the popular influence behind William Wilberforce's political comapaign against alavery.
William Edmondson, 1627-1712, the "Apostle of Irish Quakerism". He left Cromwell's army to settle in Ireland in 1654. He converted most of the first Friends there. Edmondson (or Edmundson -- the spelling seem to have been interchangeable) was a friend of George Fox and other early Quaker leaders. He left a Journal which is a valuable source of information on the first decades of the movement.
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, 1651-1715. French Bishop and contraversialist. His writings were filled with concern for the weak and poor and at the same time strictly orthodox. He fed and sheltered the poor in the district of Cambrai during the War of the Spanish Succession.
William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879. Editor of the most influential anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator. He started his career as an assistant on Benjamin Lundy's journal.
Dora Greenwell, 1821-1882. English religious poet and essayist. She supported education and the franchise for women.
Etienne de Grellet de Mabillier, 1773-1855. French nobleman who emigrated to New York and became a member of the Society of Friends. As "Stephen Grellet" he spread the message of Quakerism and anti-slavery in Europe and the Caribbean.
Samuel Hopkins William Hunt, c. 1733-1772, was born in Rancocas Creek, NJ and died in Newcastle-on-Tyne. His journals have been printed.
Edward Irving, 1792-1834. Scots preacher and founder of the Catholoic Apostolic Church. His chief distinction was having tutored Jane Welsh, later Mrs. Carlyle.
Juniata, a town in central Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna, about 90 miles NW of Philadelphia.
Charles Lamb 1775-1834. English poet and essayist. He is best known for a collection Essays of Elia, articles which appeared under the pseudonym "Elia" in The London Magazine and other publications.
Jacob Lindley 1744-?. American Quaker and abolitionist.
Benjamin Lundy, 1789-1839. Quaker abolitionist and publisher of the anti-slavery journal The Genius of Universal Emancipation.
Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678. English poet and politician. He was a friend of Milton and a supporter of Cromwell in the interregnum and served as an assistant to Milton in the Latin Office. He represented Hull in Parliament from 1559 until his death.
Warren Mifflin, 1745-1798. Virginia Quaker and reformer. He is said to be the first American to free and compensate his slaves. His cousin, Thomas Mifflin, was a lawyer and politician and a leading figure in the Congress of the Confederation.
James Pemberton, 1723-1808. Quaker and second president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, succeeding its founder, Benjamin Franklin.
Frederick W. Robertson, 1816-1853. Bishop of Winchester. He spent a large part of his life ministering to the poor while upholding the doctrine of the Church of England.
Henry Crabb Robinson, 1775-1867. A middle-class lawyer who somehow managed to befriend Catherine Buck (Thomas Clarkson's wife), Lamb, Goethe, Shiller, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and a host of other notables.
Shamokin, a town on the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania, northeast of Juniata.
Elisha Tyson, 1748?-1824. Baltimore Quaker abolitionist and philanthropist.
Wyoming is a city on the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania, NNW of Philadelphia and about 50 miles south of the New York line. It is in the region of the Poconos called the "Endless Mountains". It was not settled extensively by whites until the 19th century.