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From: "Joe Harrington" <>
Subject: RE: Quaker to Methodist?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:16:12 -0500
In-Reply-To: <3ACF6A25.65D69F05@terracom.net>


I don't know of anything particular to quakers, but 1780 or so until 1830s
was probably the period when the Methodist denomination exploded the
quickest in the US.

joe harrington

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ottinger [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:28 PM
To:
Subject: Quaker to Methodist?


My Carson ancestors emigrated from Ulster in the 1740s, where they were
Quaker, to York Co PA. Their
succeeding generations moved to Maryland around 1775, and by 1800 they
seemed to all be Methodist.
Was there some defining event in that area at that time that might have
caused them to change
religions? How common was it for Quakers in that area to abandon their faith
for another? Is there a
book or other source that might deal with this issue? Thanks,

John Ottinger


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