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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 3617060" data-attributes="member: 1246">July 11, 1656&nbsp;Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, two Englishwomen, become the first <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/history-of-quakerism" target="_blank">Quakers</a> to immigrate to the American colonies when the ship carrying them lands at Boston in the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/massachusetts" target="_blank">Massachusetts</a> Bay Colony. The pair came from Barbados, where Quakers had established a center for missionary work.The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are commonly known as Quakers, was a Christian movement founded by George Fox in England during the early 1650s. Quakers opposed central church authority, preferring to seek spiritual insight and consensus through egalitarian Quaker meetings. They advocated sexual equality and became some of the most outspoken opponents of slavery in early America.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 3617060, member: 1246"] July 11, 1656 Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, two Englishwomen, become the first [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/history-of-quakerism'][U]Quakers[/U][/URL] to immigrate to the American colonies when the ship carrying them lands at Boston in the [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/massachusetts'][U]Massachusetts[/U][/URL] Bay Colony. The pair came from Barbados, where Quakers had established a center for missionary work. The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are commonly known as Quakers, was a Christian movement founded by George Fox in England during the early 1650s. Quakers opposed central church authority, preferring to seek spiritual insight and consensus through egalitarian Quaker meetings. They advocated sexual equality and became some of the most outspoken opponents of slavery in early America. [/QUOTE]

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