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The Cheshire Baptists: Revolutionaries Susan B. Anthony of the Hoosac Valley

Susan B. Anthony, although a practicing member of the Society of Friends for a large portion of her life, was also the descendant of eighteenth-century Baptists, men and women steeped in progressive thought and committed to political action.

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The Quaker Influence Susan B. Anthony of the Hoosac Valley

Susan B. Anthony lived in Adams only during the first six years of her life.  Nevertheless, her belief in women’s rights, temperance and abolitionism have origins in the Hoosac Valley. In the late 1760s, Quakers and Baptists from Rhode Island settled the wilderness of the Hoosac River Valley headwaters.

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