1777 REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Broadside Petitioning the Release of Quakers Banished for Non-Resistance. Moravians or the Preservation of Favoured

or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

and participating in the American Revolution had cost him a vast estate at home

the entire community began to move Westward beginning in February of 1846

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1777 REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Broadside Petitioning the Release of Quakers Banished for Non-Resistance. Moravians or the Preservation of FavouredA rare Revolutionary War broadside petitioning for the release of exiled Quakers held without trial under charge of a Disposition inimical to the 'Cause of America', and disavowing a purportedly fabricated Quaker Address made to aid the British. Printed at the height of the war, this broadside addresses the issue of Quaker neutrality, and accusations made against them of having Loyalist sympathies. It reads, in part: A Number of our Friends having