"Rememb'ring our time and work is the Lords"
Subtitle: the experiences of Quakers on the eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier
By: Karen Guenther.
Series: The Pennsylvania history and culture series
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Selinsgrove, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Exeter Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1742-1829); Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Berks County -- History -- 18th century.; Pioneers -- Pennsylvania -- Berks County -- History -- 18th century.; Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Berks County -- Social conditions -- 18th century.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Berks Coounty.; Berks County (Pa.) -- History -- 18th century.; Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Berks County (Pa.) -- Church history -- 18th century.; Berks County (Pa.) -- Religious life and customs.
Other titles: Remembering our time and work is the Lords
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the origins of Exeter monthly meeting; title: A land of diversity and contention : the religious environment of eighteenth-century Berks County, Pennsylvania; title: Maintaining "ye establish'd order amongst us" : religious discipline and Exeter monthly meeting; title: War and the frontier friends : Exeter monthly meeting and the Seven Years' War; title: A crisis of allegiance : Berks County Quakers and the War for Independence; title: The Quaker ethic : the economic activity of Berks County Quakers; title: "A restless desire" : geographic mobility and Exeter friends; title: "To start instructing young friends at the tenderest age" : the concern for the education of youth; title: "Said slave be suitable for liberty" : the abolition of slavery and Exeter monthly meeting; title: Men and women of high morals : Exeter monthly meeting and the outside world; title: Conclusion : the contraction and decline of Exeter monthly meeting.