George Fell

George Fell was about 20 when his father died in 1658, and a law-student at Gray's Inn, London. George had to obtain the King's pardon for his father's service during the Commonwealth or lose his estate. George eventually drifts away from the Quakers.

In 1664 the Plague and great fire sweep London. In January 1665 the King granted Margaret's forfeited estate to her son George Fell, who was no longer a Quaker. However, he left his sisters in charge of Swarthmoor as he preferred the city. George married Hannah Potter, widow, daughter of Edward Cooke in 1668. Quaker meetings continued at Swarthmoor unabated.

Sources:

~• for details on this person's life read Isabel Ross' Margaret Fell Mother of Quakerism , 412 pages 2nd edition (1984)

• at odds with his mother's devotion to the Quaker faith, George was involved with intrigue involving the effort by some to confiscate Swarthmore from her. In the end, the property did not get into his hands and one of his sisters ended up keeping it.
• When George Fox married his widowed mother, George did not attend. He joined with enemies of his mother's (the Kirkbys) in the effort to put Margaret in prison. • George Fell offered his mother an annuity of £100 if she "would leave Swarthmore, nothing if she refused, and then he would see she was sent to prison." p. 211 of Isabel Ross' book. • Indeed, as a result of George Fell's intrigue, his mother was sent back to Lancaster Castle • As she lay there, mostly in a diminished physical state, George died - on October 14, 1670. • "Unfortunately, the bad relationship did not cease with the death of George Fell. His widow carried on the attack, and even intensified it." p 225 Ross

"t the time of the arrival of George Fox, the Fell household included the following children: Margaret, aged 19; Bridget, Isabel, George b. 1639, Sarah, Mary, and Susanna. Rachel b. 1653 would be born the next year. William Caton, later a Quaker journal writer, was a companion for George and was being educated at Swarthmoor with the other children."

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