TRENTON MEETING OF FRIENDS
of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)
Tue, Dec 31
|Trenton Friends Meetinghouse
Quakers! Choose a Side
How did the Quakers in Revolutionary times respond? Was the peace testimony enough to keep Quakers from fighting? Learn more from Quaker Meeting's historian Fredrick Millner.
Time & Location
Dec 31, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Trenton Friends Meetinghouse, 142 E Hanover St, Trenton, NJ 08608, USA
Guests
About the event
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) believed in the renunciation of war. This tenet was sorely tested with the onset of the American Revolution. How did the Trenton Quakers feel about Philemon Dickinson, a slave-owning Quaker who fought in the Battle of Trenton as a general in the Colonial army? How did they react when the British Dragoons took over their meetinghouse as a barracks? Did they continue to meet during the War? Learn more at the Trenton Meetinghouse, probably the oldest surviving House of Worship in Trenton.
