Nest of Abolitionists

Letters, memoirs and documents of 19th century Quakers in Lincoln, Virginia

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  • Original Source Material
    • Lincoln Quakers on Slavery/Abolitionism
      • Samuel McPherson Janney
      • Yardley Taylor
      • Goose Creek “Black Republican” Literary Society Meeting
      • Francis H. Ray
      • Circleville
      • William and Priscilla Tate
      • Kitty Payne: “…the case in Rappahannock”
      • Dr. J.E. Snodgrass: “My money – ay, my life would be well sold in such a cause!”
      • Eliza Coffin Janney Rawson
    • Lincoln Quakers in the Civil War
      • Thomas Smith
      • Lydia Neal Janney Brown
      • “The Rebellion is now over…” Watson’s Mill Day Book
      • Elizabeth Rogers Holmes and the Union Star
      • Carolyn Taylor
      • Thomas Brown and Phebe Nichols Brown
    • Goose Creek Meeting and the American Experience
      • Edward Hicks and the Peaceable Kingdom
      • Lucretia Mott
      • Susan B. Anthony
      • “Grandfather” of Indian nations, 1869-1871
    • Reconstruction
      • Yardley Taylor’s letter to Governor Francis Pierpont
      • After Winning the War, still Losing Battles: reconstruction in Loudoun County
      • Southern Claim #20.174 – “the strongest kind of Union folks”
  • Further Reading
  • Contact
  • Recent Posts
    • Abraham Lincoln, a new biography
    • Francis Ray: a heroic life cut short
    • Breaking News! Headlines, courtesy of 1850’s America
    • United on the Right Side of History: John C. Underwood and Samuel M. Janney
    • “Esteemed friend…” letters between Isaac T. Hopper and Samuel M. Janney
    • “…goodness is more interesting”
    • John Woolman, a Gentle Role Model in the Battle Against Slavery
    • “He talked like a Quaker…” Wesley Harris, tricked during his Underground Railroad escape
    • A Union Captain and his capture…escape…Quakers!
    • Loudoun County and the Paddy rollers
    • O Canada!
    • Henry, dead or alive
    • The Ghosts of Belmont: from Margaret Mercer to George Kephart
    • Abraham Lincoln, Colonization and Loudoun County Quakers
    • Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony in Lincoln, VA
    • George and Emma Moore: “the strongest kind of Union folks”
    • Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection and transcribed Manuscripts
    • Earliest Black School in Virginia?
    • Roads to Civil War mapped by a Quaker
    • William Tate’s journal of American History
    • Follow the Drinking Gourd
    • Risking All for Freedom
    • Judy Gaskins: an American Life
    • John and Ann Janney: A desperate West Indies journey
    • Friends sometimes marry Neighbors
    • The John Pleasants and Thomas Ritchie Duel
    • Freedmen’s Bureau teachers: Heroines of Loudoun County
    • Edward Hicks and his Peaceable Kingdom comes to Goose Creek Meeting
    • Freedmen’s Bureau letters tell a sad truth in Loudoun County, Virginia
    • Taking a Stand: Anti-war Virginia Quakers in 1861
    • Goose Creek quakers: the audacity of peace and social justice
    • After Winning the War, still Losing Battles: reconstruction in Loudoun County
    • “…in vain the Quaker pleaded his neutrality.”
    • Quaker William Tate and his Confederate horse trading
    • Civil War “Volunteers” and a Quaker Mill
    • Who was Lewin Vermillion? What happened to George?
    • Plain Dress and the Underground Railroad
    • Sylvanside Farm
    • P.T. Barnum Circus 1854 riot
    • Benjamin Hallowell, Friend and Mentor
    • The Duel
    • Amos Norris on the Road to Freedom: from Loudoun County to Niagara Falls
    • Slavery in the Quaker World
    • Goose Creek Quakers and the audacity of peace and social justice
    • John J. Janney, father of Elizabeth Hopkins Janney
    • Nest of Abolitionists and the 1820’s Manumission and Emigration movement
    • Ulysses S. Grant and Loudoun County Quakers
    • Indiana view of Quakers during the Civil War
    • Henry S. Taylor and the Burning Raid
    • Rebecca Wright: Quaker teacher, Union spy
    • The Burning Raid from a Union 7th Michigan Cavalry point of view
    • Marriage, Reconstruction style
    • Elizabeth Janney: “a precious woman”
    • Thomas Brown and Phebe Nichols Brown
    • Myrtilla Miner
    • Lincoln, Virginia Quakers bought an enslaved family and set them free.
    • Quaker William Tate and the Confederate 43rd Virginia Battalion
    • Asa M. Janney, from Virginia miller to Indian Agent
    • Confederates and Quakers
    • General Philip Sheridan explains how to end a War.
    • Roads to Civil War: a Quaker’s map of Loudoun County
    • Goose Creek “Black Republicans”
    • Edward Hicks and his Peaceable Kingdom
    • “Grandfather” of Indian Nations, 1869-1871
    • “… a Gun was Fired”
    • When did the village of Goose Creek become the village of Lincoln?
    • Dr. J.E. Snodgrass: “… my life would be well sold in such a cause!”
    • Judy Gaskins: an American Life
    • John and Ann Janney: A desperate West Indies journey in 1823

Nest of Abolitionists

  • Home
  • Original Source Material
    • Lincoln Quakers on Slavery/Abolitionism
      • Samuel McPherson Janney
      • Yardley Taylor
      • Goose Creek “Black Republican” Literary Society Meeting
      • Francis H. Ray
      • Circleville
      • William and Priscilla Tate
      • Kitty Payne: “…the case in Rappahannock”
      • Dr. J.E. Snodgrass: “My money – ay, my life would be well sold in such a cause!”
      • Eliza Coffin Janney Rawson
    • Lincoln Quakers in the Civil War
      • Thomas Smith
      • Lydia Neal Janney Brown
      • “The Rebellion is now over…” Watson’s Mill Day Book
      • Elizabeth Rogers Holmes and the Union Star
      • Carolyn Taylor
      • Thomas Brown and Phebe Nichols Brown
    • Goose Creek Meeting and the American Experience
      • Edward Hicks and the Peaceable Kingdom
      • Lucretia Mott
      • Susan B. Anthony
      • “Grandfather” of Indian nations, 1869-1871
    • Reconstruction
      • Yardley Taylor’s letter to Governor Francis Pierpont
      • After Winning the War, still Losing Battles: reconstruction in Loudoun County
      • Southern Claim #20.174 – “the strongest kind of Union folks”
  • Further Reading
  • Contact
  • Recent Posts
    • Abraham Lincoln, a new biography
    • Francis Ray: a heroic life cut short
    • Breaking News! Headlines, courtesy of 1850’s America
    • United on the Right Side of History: John C. Underwood and Samuel M. Janney
    • “Esteemed friend…” letters between Isaac T. Hopper and Samuel M. Janney
    • “…goodness is more interesting”
    • John Woolman, a Gentle Role Model in the Battle Against Slavery
    • “He talked like a Quaker…” Wesley Harris, tricked during his Underground Railroad escape
    • A Union Captain and his capture…escape…Quakers!
    • Loudoun County and the Paddy rollers
    • O Canada!
    • Henry, dead or alive
    • The Ghosts of Belmont: from Margaret Mercer to George Kephart
    • Abraham Lincoln, Colonization and Loudoun County Quakers
    • Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony in Lincoln, VA
    • George and Emma Moore: “the strongest kind of Union folks”
    • Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection and transcribed Manuscripts
    • Earliest Black School in Virginia?
    • Roads to Civil War mapped by a Quaker
    • William Tate’s journal of American History
    • Follow the Drinking Gourd
    • Risking All for Freedom
    • Judy Gaskins: an American Life
    • John and Ann Janney: A desperate West Indies journey
    • Friends sometimes marry Neighbors
    • The John Pleasants and Thomas Ritchie Duel
    • Freedmen’s Bureau teachers: Heroines of Loudoun County
    • Edward Hicks and his Peaceable Kingdom comes to Goose Creek Meeting
    • Freedmen’s Bureau letters tell a sad truth in Loudoun County, Virginia
    • Taking a Stand: Anti-war Virginia Quakers in 1861
    • Goose Creek quakers: the audacity of peace and social justice
    • After Winning the War, still Losing Battles: reconstruction in Loudoun County
    • “…in vain the Quaker pleaded his neutrality.”
    • Quaker William Tate and his Confederate horse trading
    • Civil War “Volunteers” and a Quaker Mill
    • Who was Lewin Vermillion? What happened to George?
    • Plain Dress and the Underground Railroad
    • Sylvanside Farm
    • P.T. Barnum Circus 1854 riot
    • Benjamin Hallowell, Friend and Mentor
    • The Duel
    • Amos Norris on the Road to Freedom: from Loudoun County to Niagara Falls
    • Slavery in the Quaker World
    • Goose Creek Quakers and the audacity of peace and social justice
    • John J. Janney, father of Elizabeth Hopkins Janney
    • Nest of Abolitionists and the 1820’s Manumission and Emigration movement
    • Ulysses S. Grant and Loudoun County Quakers
    • Indiana view of Quakers during the Civil War
    • Henry S. Taylor and the Burning Raid
    • Rebecca Wright: Quaker teacher, Union spy
    • The Burning Raid from a Union 7th Michigan Cavalry point of view
    • Marriage, Reconstruction style
    • Elizabeth Janney: “a precious woman”
    • Thomas Brown and Phebe Nichols Brown
    • Myrtilla Miner
    • Lincoln, Virginia Quakers bought an enslaved family and set them free.
    • Quaker William Tate and the Confederate 43rd Virginia Battalion
    • Asa M. Janney, from Virginia miller to Indian Agent
    • Confederates and Quakers
    • General Philip Sheridan explains how to end a War.
    • Roads to Civil War: a Quaker’s map of Loudoun County
    • Goose Creek “Black Republicans”
    • Edward Hicks and his Peaceable Kingdom
    • “Grandfather” of Indian Nations, 1869-1871
    • “… a Gun was Fired”
    • When did the village of Goose Creek become the village of Lincoln?
    • Dr. J.E. Snodgrass: “… my life would be well sold in such a cause!”
    • Judy Gaskins: an American Life
    • John and Ann Janney: A desperate West Indies journey in 1823
I am a local historian and researcher living near Lincoln, Virginia. There is a lot to learn about the lives of 19th century Quakers who lived in this exceptional community.
Lee Lawrence, Manager of Nest of Abolitionists website

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Lee Lawrence is a local historian living near Lincoln, Virginia. She has edited two Civil War diaries written by northern Virginian women. This site is focused on the anti-slavery, Union supporting Quakers who lived in and around Lincoln, Virginia. These brave men and women had dangerous and extraordinary experiences. Their stories need to be told.

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