Abstract
A year after his first journey to the American colonies in the ministry Thomas Chalkley emigrated from London to Maryland, then Pennsylvania, with his new wife. Feeling it was his duty to live in America, Chalkley laid it before the Monthly Meeting of Friends at Horslydown in Southwark, of which meeting I was a member, who consented to it, though somewhat unwilling to part with us’, and landed in Maryland over eight weeks after leaving London, making his new home in Pennsylvania in Spring 1701.1 Trans-Atlantic Quakerism relied on networks through which people crossed the Atlantic to carry ideas, to colonize, and to provide labour. Some London Quakers emi- grated to the colonies, like Chalkley, while others played a role in the mass movement of different peoples to the Caribbean and American colonies. In fact, while in London in 1697, the four visiting Maryland Quakers, Samuel Galloway, Richard Johns, Nehemiah Birkhead, and Samuel Chew, had stayed at the house of John Taylor on Tower Hill. Taylor, born in Maryland, was sent by his parents in 1681 to London, where he attended Ratcliff Monthly Meeting and married the daughter of Quaker Captain Samuel Groome.2 This chapter will examine travellers supported by the London Yearly Meeting, such as ministers, looking at their origins, journeys, and the support they received from London Quakers.
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Alison Games, ‘Migration’, in The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 31–50
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Landes, J. (2015). Movement of People in the Quaker Atlantic. In: London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World. Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137366689_7
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