Richmond (VA) Friends Meeting

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

American Quaker Beginnings

by | Dec 18, 1600 | History - Quaker

In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson reflected on the religious intolerance in seventeenth-century Virginia, specifically on the anti-Quaker laws passed by the Virginia Assembly from 1659 onward. Jefferson apparently believed that it was no more...