14 Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor (Oxford, 1982), 17, 75-78, 150-51.

15 Thomas Mifflin, “Abridgement of Metaphysicks,” 1759, HSP.

16 Isaac Norris to Moses Gainsborough, 8 Oct. 1735, Norris Letterbook, HSP.

17 Oxley, “Joseph’s Offering to His Children,” HSP.

18 For an excellent discussion of the contrast between Pennsylvania Quakers and Virginia gentlemen on this point, see Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, 77.
   Wyatt-Brown notes that “honor was not merely a noun but a verb in these cultures.” Here again, Quakers were different from Virginia gentlemen. A young English Quaker named Thomas Ellwood wrote after his conversion in 1659 that “the honour due to parents did not consist in uncovering the head and bowing the body to them, but in ready obedience to their lawful commands, and in performing all needful services unto them.” His Anglican father Thomas Ellwood had a very different idea of honor, and was so outraged by his son’s argument that “the old man fell upon his son with both fists, ‘plucked off the headgear,’ and ‘threw it away.’” Ibid.