Modern British Heresy

Hannah Barnard: Return to America Her earlier trial in London Timeline Hudson Quakers today Writings on Hudson Quakers After her trial in London, Hannah Barnard stayed for a month with a friend before returning to her home in Hudson, New York. This was more than enough time for J.G. Bevan to send details of her trial and sentence to Friends in Hudson. It had been read publicly at the Meeting in Barnard's absence. Even before the London judgement there had been trans-Atlantic communication, some of it deliberately seeking to impugn Barnard, not least because of her sustained opposition to war. On 30 August 1801 she set sail from Gravesend and arrived in New York on November 1, a 63-day passage. On 24 November 1801 she attended the Women’s Monthly Meeting of Hudson. She had returned with a commendatory certificate from Ireland although not from England. She already knew that the accusation from England had been read in the Monthly Meeting and asked to have it read again as she did

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