Nest of Abolitionists

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

  • 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
      • After Winning the War, still Losing Battles: reconstruction in Loudoun County
      • Yardley Taylor’s letter to Governor Francis Pierpont
      • 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
      • After Winning the War, still Losing Battles: reconstruction in Loudoun County
      • Yardley Taylor’s letter to Governor Francis Pierpont
      • 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

William Holmes' letter

old handwritten 19th century letter
Courtesy National Archives Freedmen’s Bureau collection M1055 reel 5
old hand written quaker letter
Courtesy National Archives Freedmen’s Bureau collection M1055 reel 5
old handwritten quaker letter
Courtesy National Archives Freedmen’s Bureau collection M1055 reel 5

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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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