Modern British Heresy

Hannah Barnard: in England , in America Main sources :  Foster, T. (1801). An appeal to the Society of Friends: On the primitive simplicity of their Christian principles and church discipline ;  Barnard, H., & Foster, T. (1804). A Narrative of the Proceedings in America, of the Society called Quakers, in the case of Hannah Barnard. With a brief review of the previous transactions in Great Britain and Ireland: intended as a sequel to an Appeal to the Society of Friends. [By Thomas Foster.] . London: J. Johnson. See also: New Light on Hannah Barnard , A Quaker "Heretic", David W. Maxey, Quaker History, Vol. 78, No. 2 (Fall 1989), pp. 61-8. Friend Hannah Barnard , Austin Meredith. Hanna Barnard - A liberal Quaker hero , Chuck Fager Note: I am surprised not to have discovered more scholarly work on Hannah Barnard, and no Doctoral thesis. It may be that it is there but I’ve not found it. I think she deserves and would reward much more detailed study. ________ Timeline, most...

Trial in America Bibliography and timeline Hannah Barnard was a remarkable, doughty and devout Quaker who, in 1797, was a minister of the Hudson Monthly Meeting in New York. When she proposed to travel to meet Friends in the British Isles the Meeting gave her, as the custom was, a ‘travelling minute’, endorsed by the Quarterly and the New York Yearly Meetings. In 1798 she landed at Falmouth and visited meetings in Cornwall and the South-West. From this experience she saw the value of sharing faith and meeting houses with members of other denominations, not least Methodists. In London, at the 1799 Yearly Meeting, supported by a delegation of women Friends, she argued so tenaciously for the proposal to allow shared buildings that she was instructed to leave the meeting. She travelled to Ireland where, unsurprisingly, Friends struggled with themes of violence and social order. More comfortable Friends cited the primacy of law and order; others, suffering and injustice. Questions coalesced...