Identifier: quakerhillsociol00wils (find matches)
Title: Quaker Hill; a sociological study
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Warren Hugh, 1867-1937
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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vleeting, p. 10) that the first settlement m any-considerable numbers was upon Quaker Hill in the Oblong,I infer that the uncommon promise of this hill land had beenmade known to the Quakers then assembling at this Pur-chase in the Rye Woods, and that Quaker Hill was settledin response to the stimulus of valuable, fertile lands offered foroccupation and ownership. It seems to have been the desire of the first settlers to form acommunity where they could live apart, maintain theirform of religion and ^jossess land fertile and rich. The Quakersare always shrewd as to economic affairs, and the business mo-tive is never lost sight of in the spiritual inner light. In choosingQuaker Hill soil they selected ground which after one hundredand sixty-seven years is the riche.-t in the region, sustains thebest dairies, and is able longer than any other in the neighbor- ;?vi r. ..1 VI. tj:<:j \^Ol .<( • t < : ii .7 .- i ji.f.fn
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