A Quaker Testimony to the American Revolution

On a cool, pleasant early autumn mornĀ­ing in the year 1834, John Price Wetherill made his way hastily down the vacant streets of Philadelphia towards the city’s western edge. Most of the respectable people were already seated in their churches, listening to the angelic sound of a choir or the piercing exhortation of a minĀ­ister. Little did Wetherill care on this Sunday morning about...
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