Quaker ABC 123 Sampler I’ve completed all round the edge and now working on the infill. If you want to see the finished design I’ve put the pattern on Etsy HERE.
Working on a Quaker style sampler. I’m working my way round a square with half medallions that are based on existing traditional ones. Just starting on number three.
2. omfg imagine pulling this on conservative religious relatives today
@startledoctopus Reblogging this both because it’s worthy of sharing and to remind you that the Society of Friends, or Quakers, were considered anything but conservative at the time nor are they now.
#BayardRustin (1912 - 1987) Always out Black gay man who was one of the co-organisers on the 1963 March on Washington. Refused to fight in World War II as he was a pacifist. Introduced non-violence to Martin Luther King.
She’s the face on that weird dollar coin you get from the airport cart machine and one of America’s original push girls. Susan B. Anthony was involved in activism and abolitionist movements since before she could walk, thanks to growing up in a Quaker household. And by the time she hooked up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was an unstoppable force for women’s rights. So, the next time you end up with a Susan B. Anthony dollar, think big!
Tell your friend she’s got a little Susan in her. Reblog now to give her a little push.
I collect weird Quaker names (it’s a long story). And while Preservèd Fish is probably the best, there are a lot of close contenders.
See, Quaker women sometimes used their maiden names for their sons’ first names. This led to a bunch of unusual first names, like Warner or Sharpless or Dillwyn. But the absolute winner of this category has to be CoffinPitts, whose mother I imagine had to be a member of the well-known Coffin family.
But that’s not all!
Quakers (like some other Protestant groups) sometimes used virtues as first names for their children, often girls, which gives us the amazing names Freedom, Remembrance, & Restore Lippincott (brothers),Thankful Thayer, increase Woodward, Content Hussey, Experience Field, and Experience Burt Merrick,which I can’t help reading as a command.
Anyway, without further ado, here is a selection of my best Authentic 18th-to-19th-Century Quaker Names, all belonging to real people who actually lived
Tabatha Turnpenny
Deborah Darby
Milcah Martha Moore
Pennock Passmore
Rowena Ruble
Hepsa Hathoway Howland
Leander Lippincott
Valrosa V. Vail
Benajah Butcher
Hipparchia Hinchman
Abigail Physick
Marmaduke Cooper Cope
Fanny Marsh
William Hood Dunwoody Zook
Sharpless Townsend Zook
Mehitable Jenkins
Mildred Ratcliff
Dorcas Starbuck
Grizzell Kite
Othniel Alsop
Huldah Wickersham
Kersey Grave
Pusey Grave
Jerusha Conant
Lysander Hard
Booth Tarkington
Jemimah G. Schotwell
Zilpha H. Spooner
Ledra Heazlit
Zimri Gaunt
Adonijah Peacock
Adonijah Peacock Jr.
Adonijah Peacock III (yes, they kept this one up for at least 3 generations)
Theodocia Vinicomb
Amariah Ballinger
Featherston Sadler
Melchezed Peacock
Fanny Canby
Mungo Bewley
Morris Morris, Jr. (I find it fascinating that an 18th-century man went through life named Morris Morris and decided that his son needed that experience too)
“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.” ~ E. Merrill Root [Papagena and Papageno, Emanuele Luzzati]
• In 1920 E. Merrill Root became an English professor at Earlham, a Quaker institution, and remained there until retiring in 1960. He was a traditional poet who usually worked in rhyme and standard metrical patterns. He demonstrated particular skill with the sonnet form. Root was a student of Robert Frost’s, and Frost was an admirer of his work. More: https://www.buckeyemuse.com/upon-the-gallows-tree-e-merrill-roots-poem-witchcraft/
• As a stage director, Emanuele Luzzati (1921-2007), had mounted a lavish 1963 full-scale production of the opera and fell in love with the music and the story. His animated The Magic Flute, made fifteen years later, was met with glowing reviews and multiple awards. More: http://stalkingthebelleepoque.blogspot.com/2010/12/friday-fun-emanuele-luzzatis-magic.html
In the 17th century, many groups of British Christians rose and fought against religious intolerance and corruption. The Puritans sought a return to biblical religion and a purified form of ChristianityinEngland. This resulted in the Puritan Revolution, as well as a migration to America to find a place to worship God in what they considered the ‘correct’ fashion.
