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Quakers in Ireland Scope of this project is to create a genealogical collection of Early Irish Quakers profiles Feel free to add profiles not already listed to the project About Quakers Quakers (or Friends) are members of a group of religious movements which is known as the Religious Society of Friends in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and parts of North America; and known as the Frie...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Barnes families, from earliest origins to near modern times. How to Participate Send a request to collaborate on this project and I'll add you as a collaborator. If the profile is a public profile you have edit rights to, then navigate to the profile and under "More Actions" choose "Add to project" or cl...
American Colonization Society =The American Colonization Society (ACS) (in full, The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America), founded in 1816, was the primary vehicle to support the return of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa. It helped to found the colony of Liberia in 1821–22 as a place for freedmen. Among its founders were Charle...
One month and one day following the end of the Revolutionary war securing our freedoms from Tyrany, some of our ancestors turned their attention to the next order of business: Securing the freedoms of other Americans.This project is to identify those who signed this document: To the United States in Congress Assembled===The Address of the People Called Quakers==Being through the favour of D...
In 1645, Flushing , then a town called Vlissengen , was granted a charter by the Dutch West India Company and became a part of New Netherlands . It was settled largely by English families, similar to English settlements at Gravesend, Hempstead, and Jamaica, Long Island. A respected Flushing colonist, Henry Townsend , held a Quaker meeting in his home and was fined and banished. Flushing citize...
Since April 1688* The Proprietors of the Gloucester Tenth* have met annually on this spot* to elect members to represent them* in the Council of * the General Proprietors of * the Western Division of New JerseyThe goal of this project is to showcase the original proprietors of West Jersey.==background==From Wikipedia "The Dutch defeated New Sweden in 1655. Settlement of the West Jersey area by ...
Founded in the early 1760s by the charismatic preacher Joseph Nichols, the Nicholites shared many similarities with the Quakers, including dedication to nonviolence and antislavery and were one of the first religious groups in America to make the manumission of slaves a requirement of membership. As with Quaker meetings, the Nicholites’ meetings consisted of silent contemplation of the “Inner L...
English dissenters prior to and during the civil war/revolution in England as well as during the Interregnum. Please add your "Dissenting" ancestors to the project. Must be set to public. Collaborators, please feel free to edit the page, add resources, and invite more collaborators.From Wikipedia English Dissenters were Christians who separated from the Church of England in the 16th, 17th and 1...
Charney Manor, Berkshire (Now Oxfordshire), England= CHARNEY (Ceornei, ?ix cent.; Cernei, xi cent.; Cerneia, xii cent.; Cerneye, xiii cent.; Cherney, xvi cent.) is included in the forged list of lands supposed to have been granted to Abbot Rethune by Kenulf, King of Mercia , in 811, (fn. 54) and it is also named in another spurious charter ascribed to the same king dated 821. (fn. 55) At the ti...
=The Rogerenes=* Traclng the sect no one has heard of* A Geni research blog What is a Geni research blog?It's a collaborative adventure in fact finding and tree building.Please add entries, most recent on top, date stamped and with your name or initials. Free form musing invited, and pictures most welcome. If you upload them to the "media" section, you can also embed them in the project page. A...
Please add your pioneer and notable ancestors of Hopewell to this project. Collaborators, feel free to update the page, add resources, documents, images ...==origins==Hopewell’s first inhabitants were Lenapes, an Algonquin tribe who welcomed Europeans because they needed protection from other Indians. Their Hopewell villages were Wissamonson [Woodbridge] and Minnepenasson [Stoutsburg]. New Jers...
from North Carolina Manumission Society On July 19, 1816, twenty-three delegates from Quaker meetings at Centre, Carraway, Deep River, and New Garden organized the North Carolina Manumission Society at Centre Friends Meeting House in Guilford County. The delegates represented 147 members in the local societies. The antislavery organization alternated between meeting at Centre and Deep River unt...