Excerpt from Chronology of the Society of Friends: 1644-1828This Chronology aims to bring together facts that have lain scattered over the pages of voluminous histories, and to present them in a form easy for reference. Samuel M. Janney's "History of Friends, " "Sewel's History, " "George Fox's Journal, " "The History of Friends in America, " by James Bowden, and Luke Howard's Chronological Summary in the Yorkshireman, have been the prime authorities.This list of dates and events, with the summaries of the periods, forms an outline which the History Committee of the Young Friends' Association of Philadelphia hopes will prove acceptable to those interested in the history of the Society of Friends.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.