It would be an ambitious project, and I'm not sure quite how one would structure it, spanning six states and many subjects as it would from early colonial times to today.
Dover Friend Silas Weeks' book of meetinghouses and burial grounds remains my go-to volume, but it's mostly about buildings rather than people.
I'm still surprised to hear Rhode Island Yearly Meeting as the body's early name, rather than New England Yearly Meeting. When did it change officially?
Well, I have seen some genealogies that get impossible to follow after, say, the third generation.
I even feel something like that in Dover, once the textile mills take over.
Still, the conventional histories of Quakers in America focus on Philadelphia, overlooking or slighting the unique challenges and characters of New England, North Carolina, Ohio, and more.
For now, my Quaking Dover is a microcosm of the bigger picture. I'm hoping it will prompt more.
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