There's so much more I'd like to know about details related to my Quaking Dover story, but I'm not a professional historian.
Some of these could be fodder for a Ph.D. dissertation.
- An examination of Dover Friends book of minutes dealing with young men who enlisted in the Revolutionary War would be one.
- Or of where individuals went in their religious affiliations after leaving Friends.
- Even Richard Waldron's full biography.
- A list of the clerks of the Meeting and another of the recorded ministers and elders would be helpful.
- Or an examination of the actual functioning of the provincial charters, especially the so-called "proprietary colonies."
- And, oh yes, a genealogical index of New England Quakers like William Wade Hinshaw's encyclopedic indexes of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Ohio.
- I would even like to see an understandable examination of English settlement in Maine in its colonial years. Where, for instance, did the settlers go after watching from sea as smoke and flames rose from what had been their homes and villages in a fateful five-week period of 1676, eradicating all English from east of Casco Bay?
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