The John Pleasants and Thomas Ritchie Duel
Prominent 19th century Virginia Quaker, Samuel McPherson Janney, had a connection with John Pleasants, the newspaper editor killed in aContinue Reading
Month: April 2020
Freedmen’s Bureau teachers: Heroines of Loudoun County
Isabella Skillman was a graduate of one of the earliest women’s colleges in the country, New York’s Rutgers Female Institute.Continue Reading
Edward Hicks and his Peaceable Kingdom comes to Goose Creek Meeting
Edward Hicks (1780-1849) was a Quaker minister who supported his family by painting commercial signs in the Philadelphia area. HeContinue Reading
Nest of Abolitionists 