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Waln, Nicholas [Explaining why Quakers refuse to pay a fee for their pacifism]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05326 Author/Creator: Waln, Nicholas Place Written: Philadelphia Type: Broadside Date: 18 December 1790 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy

Quakers explaining why they refuse to pay a fee to the government for their pacifism.

Waln, Nicholas, fl. 1789-1790

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