[lit-ideas] Re: What about those Quakers?
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:14:13 EDT
In a message dated 4/20/2004 7:31:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Kouroo@xxxxxxxxx quotes Mike:
>The Quakers in Pennsylvania would hire non-Quakers to protect them from
Indians (kill them, that is)
That's not necessarily true. Here are some of the spilled beans.
My surname Yost exists almost exclusively in the US, as it was a
transliteration of Jost given to immigrants before 1810.
My ancestors settled in Pennsylvania in pre-Revolutionary War times. The
first German immigration of which a Yost family record survives is of
Mennonites,
who were often called "German Quakers." This group landed at Philadelphia on
20 August 1683 and on a second ship 6 October 1683. They were largely
tradespeople and farmers, and several records exist of them fighting off (or
surviving)
"Indian attacks" in areas of southeastern Pennsylvania. It's highly unlikely
that Penn paid these people to defend themselves.
But the land grants and tolerance that William Penn offered also drew a bunch
of religious groups to PA, who probably had varying beliefs regarding
self-defense, including: the Tunkers, Labadists, New Born, New Mooners,
Separatists,
Zion's Brueder, Ronsdorfer, Inspired Quietists, Gichtellians, Depellians,
Mountain Men, River Brethren, Brinser Brethren, The Society of Women in the
Wilderness, and the Amish.
Eric
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