Honoring the indomitable faith of our Forefathers: An excerpt from a post on www.boltonmansion.org At the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting held at Burlington, New Jersey, (opposite Pennsbury on the Delaware) in 1683, Phineas Pemberton said "Remember we were a despised people, in our native land, accounted by the world scarce worth to have a name or place therein; daily liable to their spoil; under great sufferings, by long and tedious imprisonment, sometimes to the loss of life - banishment, spoil of goods, beatings, mockings, and ill treatings; so that we had not been a people at this day had not the Lord stood by us. But none of these things were done unto us because of our evil deeds, but because of the exercise of our tender consciences toward our God."