Quaker businessman A.B. Farquhar, who played a prominent role in the surrender of York PA during the Civil War, had Maryland roots.
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Amos Griest of the Foustown area of York County PA was a conductor in the covert Underground Railroad in the 1840s and 50s
In the early 1800s, York County, Pennsylvania, played an important role in the growing movement
Jonathan Mifflin was from a long and broad line of Quakers who settled in the
Thomas Jefferson in his first year of his presidency sent a letter thanking several supporters
According to the Library of Congress, the Willis House is the most pretentious and academically
The 1860 Census of Warrington Township shows Quaker farmer George Squibb, his wife Mary, one
Sarah Emma Seifert, Mary (Bell) Squibb, and George Squibb lie side by side in the
The weathered gravestone of Mary (Bell) and George S. Squibb is shown in this photograph
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