Jeffrey A. Denman

"The Testimony of the People Called Quakers," January 24, 1775 The new year began as the old one had ended—with more controversy. Christopher Marshall recorded in his diary on January 2, 1775, that there were "meetings daily amongst the Quakers," and on January 5, the Meeting for Sufferings, effectively their executive council, issued an epistle from their meeting not only "to act agreeable to the peaceable principles and testimony we profess" but also because "some public re