Lincoln, Virginia Quakers bought an enslaved family and set them free.
On February 20, 1856, Samuel M. Janney wrote to Northern friend and fellow Quaker Jane Johnson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. TheContinue Reading
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Quaker William Tate and the Confederate 43rd Virginia Battalion
William Tate kept a Memo book in which he recorded who owed him money for fence rails, when his ewesContinue Reading
Confederates and Quakers
John Singleton Mosby’s 43rd Battalion, a Confederate partisan ranger unit fighting under Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart, led a highlyContinue Reading
General Philip Sheridan explains how to end a War.
By the autumn of 1864 the Civil War was drawing to its bloody close. However, Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby’sContinue Reading
Asa M. Janney, from Virginia miller to Indian Agent
At the beginning of the year 1869, Asa Moore Janney (1802-1877) was a miller living near Lincoln, Loudoun County, Virginia,Continue Reading
Roads to Civil War: a Quaker’s map of Loudoun County
Yardley Taylor grew apple trees, delivered county mail, wrote anti-slavery essays, and in 1853 surveyed a map of Loudoun County.Continue Reading
Goose Creek “Black Republicans”
The story of the Goose Creek Literary Society is perhaps best told through the newspaper accounts of the March 15,Continue Reading
Edward Hicks and his Peaceable Kingdom
Edward Hicks (1780-1849) was a Quaker minister who supported his family by painting commercial signs in the Philadelphia area. HeContinue Reading
“Grandfather” of Indian Nations, 1869-1871
Samuel M. Janney was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Omaha, Nebraska, 1869-1871. His brother and fellow Lincoln, Virginia Quaker,Continue Reading
When did the village of Goose Creek become the village of Lincoln?
On July 3, 1865 a post office was opened in newly named Lincoln, Virginia. Prior to that date there wasContinue Reading
Nest of Abolitionists 