Call Number:

SC.243

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (2 folders.))

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: Collection of Sufferings of Flushing Friends during the American Revolution, SC/243, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Date:

1775-1789 (inclusive)

Creator:

New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings

Abstract:

Contains a document listing the Sufferings of Friends belonging to Flushing Monthly Meeting given to the Committee appointed to inspect the Sufferings of Friends, 1782. Also, accounts submitted by individuals and related epistles, 1775 and 1778, from London and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings.

Flushing, New York, was occupied by the British during the Revolutionary War. In accordance with the Quaker peace testimony, Flushing Friends did not participate in the war effort, refusing to lend support to either side. As a result, a number of them suffered confiscation of property. Meeting for Sufferings of New York Yearly Meeting was established in 1758 and held quarterly to represent and hold any business of the Yearly Meeting while it was not in session.