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My interests include:
- Agatha Christie's Jane Marple and
- Dorothy Sayers's Peter Wimsey
- Three of my ancestors are Roger Williams, Philip Sherman, and Cassandra Burnell Southwick. I am related to Texas hero Henry Millard and to U. S. President Millard Fillmore.
- My favorite New England people are Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and Ethan Allen.
- Friends
- Mennonites
- Early Baptists
- Holiness movement
- Christian and Missionary Alliance
I am a participant in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
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- Eric Baker (activist)—co-founder of Amnesty International
- Joel Bean—Quaker minister
- William Coddington—early governor of Rhode Island
- John Coggeshall--early leader of Rhode Island
- Mary Fisher--early Quaker missionary
- Joseph John Gurney—banker and activist
- Jester Hairston—choir director, composer, singer, actor
- Edward Hicks--painter
- Christopher Holder--early Quaker preacher
- Elizabeth Hooton--early Quaker preacher
- Francis Howgill—early Quaker preacher
- Rufus Jones—author, editor, and college professor
- Thomas R. Kelly—Quaker missionary, teacher, and author
- Phoebe Knapp—composer of hymn tunes
- Henry Millard--Texas hero and my distant cousin
- Phoebe Palmer-—leader in the Holiness Movement
- Edward Pease (1767-1858)--railway owner
- John Sanford (ca. 1605-1654)--a founder of Portsmouth, Rhode Island
- Robert Pearsall Smith--proponent of the Holiness Movement
- Hannah Whitall Smith-—speaker and author in the Holiness Movement
- Alys Pearsall Smith--wife of Bertrand Russell, humanitarian
- Cassandra Burnell Southwick--Quaker martyr, and my direct ancestor
- Leroy S. Starrett-—inventor and businessman
- M. Carey Thomas-—former president of Bryn Mawr College and suffragist
- Mary Vaux Walcott-—naturalist and illustrator
- Isaac Wilbour--governor of Rhode Island
- Firbank Fell-—a hill in the Lake District of England
- Gaols Act 1823—prison reform act of the United Kingdom
- Portsmouth Compact--a founding document of Rhode Island
- Blessed Assurance—Christian hymn
- Testimony of Equality—Quaker principle
- Testimony of Integrity—Quaker principle
- Testimony of Simplicity—Quaker principle
- Valiant Sixty--a group of early Quaker preachers
- Higher Life movement--Christian Holiness movement in the United Kingdom
- Conservative Friends--a branch of Quakerism
- List of female private detective characters
