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From: Alice Beard <>
Subject: [PaOldC] Fighting Quakers
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:59:23 -0500

A Quaker didn't have to fight for their descendants to be elegible for
Daughters of the American Revolution. Many paid the Effective Supply
Tax in 1779 & 1782. In 1782 many individuals were fined for not serving
in the war because of their religion, not just the Quakers. You have to
watch for this, if your Quaker ancestor didn't pay that fine, you could
qualify for DAR. There were other Quakers, like Henry Reynolds, who
supplied horses for the troops and later confessed to his meeting, was
disciplined, but remained with the meeting. In the Nottingham Meeting,
a young lady confessed that she gave a soldier a blanket many years
after the deed, was dealt with, but also remained with the meeting.
Descendants of these Quakers are also elegible to join DAR.

Alice Beard

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