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Quakers don't use titles

07 Nov 2011 | Filed in: equality

TRUE Quakers have traditionally as part of both Plain Speech and the Testimony to Equality refused to use titles in reference to others. For those with whom the speaker is not intimately familiar enou

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    MYTH: Quakers landed at Plymouth

    26 Aug 2011

    FALSE This is an example of the Quakers are Puritans myth.

    The Plymouth Colony started in 1620. Quakerism did not begin until the 1650s. When Quakers came to the New World, it was mostly to Pennsylva

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    MYTH: Quakers are Puritans

    12 Jul 2011

    FALSE The Puritans in the Massachusetts Colony killed Quakers for being Quakers. A famous example is that of Mary Dyer.

    Early Quakers were influenced by English Puritans’ rejection of non-Biblical

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