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Was George Durant a Quaker?

Was George Durant a Quaker? BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. brave to be cruel. I am glad that this production gives the Lye to this kind of malevolence.--Let us, however, cultivate benignity, both between ourselves, and with those we live amongst, and heaven will never forsake us--Adieu. [Endorsed] Doctor Jn0 Fothergill 1774 London Date 22 Decr Rec'd 21 Sept 1775 Pr Ankerwick (?) Ansd 27 Jan 1777 [In another handwriting] This very curious & sensible letter is said to have been addressed to G. Ironside then in India. WAS GEORGE DURANT A QUAKER? By Julia S. White. In "The Quakers in the American Colonies" occurs the following sentence: "William Durand who was convinced by Elizabeth Harris in 1656/7 was a member of Cromwell's commission for the government of Maryland, and was the secretary of that commission. He seems soon after--apparently at the Restoration--to have moved to Carolina and to have settled a plantation on the Roanoke, and the George Durand conspicuous in early North Carolina history was apparently his son." It was this statement which aroused new interest in George Durant and is perhaps the excuse for the present paper. The point of land in North Carolina lying between the Perquimans and Little http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia Friends Historical Association

Was George Durant a Quaker?

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BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. brave to be cruel. I am glad that this production gives the Lye to this kind of malevolence.--Let us, however, cultivate benignity, both between ourselves, and with those we live amongst, and heaven will never forsake us--Adieu. [Endorsed] Doctor Jn0 Fothergill 1774 London Date 22 Decr Rec'd 21 Sept 1775 Pr Ankerwick (?) Ansd 27 Jan 1777 [In another handwriting] This very curious & sensible letter is said to have been addressed to G. Ironside then in India. WAS GEORGE DURANT A QUAKER? By Julia S. White. In "The Quakers in the American Colonies" occurs the following sentence: "William Durand who was convinced by Elizabeth Harris in 1656/7 was a member of Cromwell's commission for the government of Maryland, and was the secretary of that commission. He seems soon after--apparently at the Restoration--to have moved to Carolina and to have settled a plantation on the Roanoke, and the George Durand conspicuous in early North Carolina history was apparently his son." It was this statement which aroused new interest in George Durant and is perhaps the excuse for the present paper. The point of land in North Carolina lying between the Perquimans and Little

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Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia – Friends Historical Association

Published: Apr 4, 1913

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