"To say that the arrival of the first quakers at Boston in 1656 struck terror in the hearts and minds of the Puritan Fathers is a gross understatement. That the arrival of a few pacifists could have induced the leaders of the colony to so completely subvert the civil and religious rights they had adopted in their 'Body of Liberties,' shows how fragile the public mind was during the mid-1600's, and makes the witchcraft hysteria of the next generation,...