Initially their success was built around the benefits Quakers got from trading with one another.
Soon, people outside the sect began to seek out Quakers as trading partners, suppliers and sellers.
Other Christian sects, including Baptists, Quakers and Mormons, faced official resistance, discrimination and worse for decades.
And the former Carlisle United playmaker was also the provider for the Quakers third goal late on.
Keltie duly obliged for the Quakers, ramming his kick into the top right-hand corner to beat Lee.
The Quakers were in contention for a promotion place this season before having their points taken away.
In 2000, there were around 200 Quakers, many of whom had come from other meetings in the area.
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Penney resigned as Quakers boss earlier on Thursday after almost three years in charge of the administration-hit club.
When Quakers went looking for credit or for trade, then, they found it easy to partner with fellow believers.
At the time, Quakers were being persecuted and had no other safe place to lay their dead to rest.
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Episcopalians in Virginia would live amicably next to Catholics in Maryland, Quakers in Pennsylvania or Baptists in their midst.
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King's letter, though, didn't receive much attention when it was published by the Quakers as a pamphlet in May.
The U.S. version of solitary started long ago -- with the Quakers, surprisingly enough, at Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary.
Bridge-Wilkinson, 31, has impressed at the Arena since making the switch, scoring once in four appearances for the Quakers.
More recently in the U.S., Quakers practiced socially responsible investing based on their beliefs in human equality and nonviolence.
The 31-year-old has scored three goals in six appearances with the Quakers in Blue Square Bet Premier and FA Cup.
The notion of ethical investing goes back at least to 1758, when the Quakers banned profiting from the slave trade.
Julian Joachim broke clear as the Quakers appeared to gain the upper hand but his right-footed shot was comfortably saved.
Norwich Quakers, including prison reformer Elizabeth Fry and anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Fowell Buxton, also made a great impact he said.
Prior to the end of the initial loan, Quakers boss Mark Cooper had outlined his plans to keep hold of the player.
The Quakers hold home advantage for the first leg, with the potentially all important second match taking place at Gateshead's International Stadium.
Those against the amendment include a coalition of reformed Jews, some Protestant factions, Sikhs, Quakers, the United Church of Christ, and Unitarians.
Some religious groups, including Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Judaism, are in favour.
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Mr Corbett, a Quaker, wrote to fellow Quakers throughout the United States.
The Quakers bounced back from two goals down to take a narrow advantage to Tyneside for next Saturday's decider at the International Stadium.
Meanwhile Quakers defender Ian Miller insists they are refusing accept their fate despite being bottom of League Two, 16 points adrift of safety.
Bridge-Wilkinson, 31, played the final match of Quakers loan spell in Monday's 3-1 win against Barrow but has now returned to his parent club.
In 18th- and early 19th-century Britain a sizable chunk of the nation's economy was run by members of the religious sect known as the Quakers.
It was the north-east team who were enjoying the better of the match, and the Quakers hitman Peter Duffield came closest to breaking the deadlock on 27 minutes.
But some religious groups, including Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Judaism, are in favour of gay marriage and are thought likely to apply to be allowed to stage ceremonies.
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