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From: "Leslie Hope" <>
Subject: RE: [Q-R] WHAT IS A QUAKER
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 12:24:03 -0800
In-Reply-To: <014c01c08e17$dccba720$ab4ad2cc@maine.rr.com>


Hi LeeAnn,
Very doubtful that the old man joined the Society of Friends. He died before
the Society was established on the island by his daughter Mary Coffin
Starbuck. Was the source you were looking at Savage? If he joined, it would
have been while he was still in Dover. I'm descended from his offspring
Sarah (thru her marriage to Joseph Austin), Dorcas and of course Nathaniel.
But I guess you can say if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then
it's a duck. He wasn't a Puritan and the Quakers provided the strongest
opposition to the repressive Puritan hegemony. His descendants and many of
the descendants of his associates became Quakers. Yes. I would like a copy
of the pages you were looking at. I'll send you my address offlist.
Leslie

-----Original Message-----
From: LEE-ANNE DAHMS [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 11:31 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [Q-R] WHAT IS A QUAKER


Hi Leslie

Thank you for emailing me the info this morning.

This morning at my local library in the genealogy section I discovered some
information on Edward Starbuck m. Catherine Renolds. It said he was a
anabaptist, but because of being persecuted for it he ended up joining the
Society of Friends. I'm going to take a copy from the book next week. I
think it was a New England Genealogical Dictionary, but not sure. I guess
that also answers my question how Sarah his daughter also became a member in
part. Would you like a copy of it when I get it?

Lee-Anne Smithson Dahms
New Gloucester, Maine



----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Hope" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 6:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Q-R] WHAT IS A QUAKER


> Lee Ann,
> I too am a descendant of Edward Starbuck. If you are talking about the
> immigrant m. Catherine Reynolds, he was not a Quaker, but an anabaptist.
his
> daughter in law, Mary Coffin Starbuck, (also my line) is credited with
> bringing the Society of Friends to Nantucket ca 1700 by welcoming Quaker
> preachers into her home, Parliment House. However, much earlier, Damaris
> Sibley Shattuck Gardner, who was one of the earliest Salem Quakers,
migrated
> to Nantucket with her 2nd husband Richard Gardner (they are both my line
> thru the marriage of her daughter and his son). The Salem Quakers had been
> horribly persecuted.
> Leslie Hope
> 5 lines from Edward Starbuck, multiple lines from all the others (except
> Peter Folger)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LEE-ANNE DAHMS [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:22 AM
> To:
> Subject: [Q-R] WHAT IS A QUAKER
>
>
> Hi List
> I am a descendant of Edward Starbuck of Nantucket and the Varneys of Dover
> NH. I know that they were Quakers.
>
> What is the description of a Quaker? What did being a Quaker mean? What
> would it have been like in their household and life?
>
> My daughter has been asking me and I really dont know. All I ever heard
> about Quakers was the old rhyme "Quakers meeting has begun, no more
> laughing, no more fun"
>
> There is a Quaker meeting house in Raymond/Casco Maine where they had
walls
> built to keep the men and the women seperate I was told.
>
> I was hoping the list would be able to help me understand and learn.
Thanks
> to anyone for their help.
>
> Lee-Anne Smithson Dahms
> New Gloucester, Maine
>
>
>
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