John Abraham of Manchester

Associate of Margaret Fell. His son John married Rachel Fell, daughter of Margaret.
See: Isabel Ross' Margaret Fell Mother of Quakerism , 412 pages 2nd edition (1984) not online (2016)

John Abraham was baptized May 17, 1629 at Warrington. He early joined the Society of Friends, and was suffered in 1660, 1661, and 1675; was an eminent and greatly beloved minister in the Society and one of the founders of the Manchester Meeting.

Warrington was a fulcrum in the English Civil War. The armies of Oliver Cromwell and the Earl of Derby both stayed near the old town centre (the parish church area). Popular legend has it that Cromwell lodged near the building which survives on Church Street as the Cottage Restaurant. The Marquis of Granby public house bears a plaque stating that the Earl of Derby 'had his quarters near this site'. Dents in the walls of the parish church are rumoured to have been caused by the cannons from the time of the civil war. On 13 August 1651 Warrington was the scene of the last Royalist victory of the civil war when Scots troops under Charles II and David Leslie, Lord Newark, fought Parliamentarians under John Lambert at the Battle of Warrington Bridge.

Sources:

The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, Volumes 1-3 By Friends' historical society, London page 32