Hicksite

The pamphlets declared that during the Revolutionary War, “Hicksite Quakers drove their fatted cattle past the starving soldiers at Valley Forge and sold the beef to British soldiers, laughing at the plight of Washington’s men.”

Elias Hicks, the brave Abolitionist Quaker, was denounced as an Atheist, and less than twenty years ago a Hicksite Quaker was expelled from one of the Southern American Legislatures, because of the reputed irreligion of these abolitionist “Friends.”

My ancestors were Quakers, and my grandfather a Hicksite Quaker.

Mary now reported that a distinguished member of the Hicksite Society, Mary Lock wood, had recanted in the same way as Paine.

I incline to think you right in supposing a connection between the Paine excitement and the Hicksite movement.