Those Who Chose Not to Fight

Description

The Red Mill Museum Village is pleased to announce that it will be offering its popular Revolutionary War lectures series through the winter and into the spring. Since 1999 the series has focused on military topics as they related to the Revolutionary War and its impact on the state of New Jersey and Hunterdon County. Speakers have included a variety of scholars, authors, re-enactors, teachers and historians.

The 2012 series is titled “A Community Divided-Patriot, Loyalist, Pacifist” and will focus on issues relating to the political choices Hunterdon County residents were forced to make and the consequences which followed these decisions. The lectures will take place at 8:00 p.m. and be held at the Clinton Community Center located on Halstead Street in Clinton, New Jersey. Due to the popularity of this lecture series, pre-registration is highly recommended. The registration fee for each lecture is $5/members and $6/nonmembers.

Those Who Chose Not to Fight
Presented By Dan and Marty Campanelli
April 3, 2012
8pm

Pacifists during the war included the Moravians, Mennonites, Dunkards, and Quakers. Dan and Marty Campanelli, authors of several historic books on the history of Hunterdon County, will discuss the perspectives of the Pacifists. The talk will specifically address the Quakers and the religious issues they had with fighting, paying military taxes and the signing of oaths. This lecture will provide a portrayal of the life of Hunterdon’s Quakers and reveal how the Quakers suffered by refusing to choose a side. The Campanellis will use the Quakertown Meeting records, letters, and journal entries as primary sources relating stories of fines, jailing, and confiscation of property in the Hunterdon Quaker Community.