Cumberland County NJ Archives News.....Origin of the Term Quakers May 10, 1856
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West-Jersey Pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1851-1884: May 10, 1856 May 10, 1856
Origin of the Term Quakers.
One day, the celebrated George Fox, being at a lecture delivered in Derby, by a
Colonel of the Parliament army, after the service was over, addressed the
congregation until there came an officer who took him by the hand and said that he
and two others that were with him must go before the magistrate. They were examined
for a long time, and then Fox and one of his friends were committed to the House of
Correction for six months. One of the Justices hearing Fox bidding him and those
around them “quake and tremble at the word of the Lord,” called Fox and his friends
Quakers. It soon ran all over England, and it has since remained their distinctive
name, insomuch that, to the present time, they are recognized by these names in the
laws, the phrase being used, “the people called Quakers.” The community in its rules
and minutes for government and discipline denominates itself “The Society of
Friends.”

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