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Early Relations of Baptists and Quakers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
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On a little hillside that rises abruptly from the Baltimore Pike, an old highway from Philadelphia to Baltimore, some fifty miles south of Philadelphia, stands a little old meeting-house a-round which gather many interesting historical incidents. It is the home of the Brandywine Baptist Church, on the edge of the famous Brandywine battle field where Washington, joined for the first time by Lafayette, met defeat by the British under Howe and Cornwallis and was forced to abandon Philadelphia, September 11, 1777. Giant oak trees tower high on the hillside to-day and members of the church will point out the one against which, according to tradition, the young French general leaned, severely wounded.
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“I know it is the observation of one of G. Fox his Opposities a man of excellent knowledge, piety & industry, M. Baxter vis. that the Churches of the Independents, & Baptists have been the source and Spring whence have flown the Generation of the Quakers. For my self I have observed the contrary these parts, and that although some rotten Professors, or weak Souls though true have been bewitched by those Soul-witches yet generally where they have Liberty the National Church fills up their numbers. …” George Fox Digg'd, etc., p. 341Google Scholar. And yet according to tradition the first person in Providence to embrace Quakerism was Richard Scot, who had been one of the first Baptists to unite with Roger Williams in the church of that city.