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John Camm: Profile of a Quaker Minister during the Interregnum

In 1648 George Fox, drawing on members of a "shattered" Baptist community in Nottinghamshire, helped to organize the "Children of the Light."1 At first he and his brethren represented simply another small sect among the welter of competing sects which characterized the Interregnum. Yet the "Children of the Light," derisively known by 1650 as "Quakers," were to grow and develop into one of the strongest radical challenges to the predominance of the older Puritan sect prior to the Restoration. A major cause of their growth was the work of the itinerant ministers known to Friends as First Publishers of Truth, many of whom were drawn from the lonely outposts of the north of England. These northern Quakers often commented on God's call to them to spread "truth" to the less enlightened areas of England. In order to make that task easier they hoped to convince England's rulers of the need to remove all laws which hampered the Spirit, and consequently the ministering activities of these First Publishers. Typical of these First Publishers was John Camm, successful yeoman in the northwest of England, who was to give his life in the service of God, a service which demanded of him, as of other early Quaker ministers, great physical and mental exertion in gathering together potential Friends, convincing them of the "truth" and organizing them into meetings, while at the same time countering opposition, whether verbal, physical or legal. Although he