1777 REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Broadside Petitioning the Release of Quakers Banished for Non-Resistance. Moravians extracted from John Fry]

extracted from John Fry]

Cox and Words by Alfred Tennyson [1922]

or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

the entire community began to move Westward beginning in February of 1846

To all these I here proclaim in the name of the word of the Lord

1777 REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Broadside Petitioning the Release of Quakers Banished for Non-Resistance. Moravians extracted from John Fry]A rare Revolutionary War broadside petitioning for the release of exiled Quakers held without trial under charge of a Disposition inimical to the 'Cause of America', and disavowing a purportedly fabricated Quaker Address made to aid the British. Printed at the height of the war, this broadside addresses the issue of Quaker neutrality, and accusations made against them of having Loyalist sympathies. It reads, in part: A Number of our Friends having