>>>Benjamin Franklin was not a Quaker. He was baptized in 1706, at the Old South Church congregation's Cedar Meeting House on downtown Washington Street, Boston. Built in 1729 as a Congregational church, Old South was the largest building in colonial Boston. In Philadelphia he occasionally worshiped at Christ Church, the Church of England parish established in colonial Philadelphia in 1695 and later reorganized into the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America." <<<
LOL. I always assumed he was Quaker (by his dress and demographics). Now I find he was a good Protestant and Episcopalian. Thanks for the info.
BTW, my ancestors were Quakers in eastern Pennsylvania in the late 1600's and early-to-mid 1700's. They migrated south with the Boone's (Daniel Boone, his parents and his siblings) during the great Quaker migration of the mid 1700's and settled in western North Carolina. My ancestors and Daniel Boone's parents are buried there.
"My ancestors and Daniel Boone's parents are buried there."
I have a few Quakers in my ancestry, too. Surnames Reddick, Thornton and Cox. I'm still in western NC. Where are yours buried, Yadkin County?
Or was.
"Before I enter upon my public appearance in business, it may be well to let you know the then state of my mind with regard to my principles and morals, that you may see how far those influenc'd the future events of my life. My parents had early given me religious impressions, and brought me through my childhood piously in the Dissenting way. But I was scarce fifteen, when, after doubting by turns of several points, as I found them disputed in the different books I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
Some books against Deism fell into my hands; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist."
-- Ch. VI, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin