found: Work cat.: New England Yearly Meeting of Friends records, MS 902, Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries(Most famously, Orthodox Friends in New England divided in the 1840s into the increasingly evangelically-oriented Gurneyites, who went by the name Yearly Meeting of Friends for New England, and the Wilburites, sometimes called Conservative Friends)
found: Friends United Meeting, Encyclopaedia Britannica online edition, viewed July 30, 2018(The yearly meetings refused to follow some of the more liberal ideas of the Hicksites, who began breaking away from the orthodox yearly meetings in 1827. The meetings were subsequently influenced by the English Friends minister Joseph John Gurney, a systematic theologian and Evangelical leader who preached in the United States (1837--40). As a result, some of the orthodox Friends, the Gurneyites, adopted worship services with ministers presiding, gave more attention to creeds and scripture rather than concentrating on the Inner Light, and developed more active social and mission programs. A reaction to this movement was led by John Wilbur, a Friends minister who stressed traditional Friends teachings and mode of worship. This reaction led to further schism and the forming of Wilburite yearly meetings. The organization today includes yearly meetings scattered across the United States and in Canada, the Caribbean, and East Africa.)
found: A brief history of the branches of Friends, Quaker Information Center, a service of Earlham School of Religion(The main body of Orthodox Friends followed the lead of English Friend Joseph John Gurney into increasingly evangelical beliefs; over time, many meetings adopted forms of worship very close to those of traditional Protestant churches. Orthodox Friends who resisted what they saw as the Gurneyite threat to traditional Quakerism either withdrew or were expelled to form "Wilburite," "Conservative," or "Primitive" groups (before the Civil War in the United States) or independent "Beanite" yearly meetings (after 1865 in the western US))
found: Bryn Mawr College Quakers & slavery WWW site, Oct. 18, 2018:glossary (Gurneyite Friends (also called "Evangelical Friends"): Following the teachings of English Quaker minister and reformer, John Joseph Gurney (1788 - 1847), Gurneyites were evangelical Quakers believing in the direct and immediate work of the Holy Spirit based on systematic study of the Scriptures and in the centrality to Christianity of the doctrine of atonement.)
