Description
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) had associations with Gracechurch Street (or Gracious Street, as they called it) from the 17th century onwards. Their first meeting house on Gracechurch street, in an old Inn, was visited by William Penn himself; it burned down in 1821. The meeting house that Catherine Sutton visited, presumably a replacement for the former, is no longer on the map. Naaniibawikwe first visited in 1837 with her Uncle, Peter Jones. On her second visit, to petition the Queen over the Credit River lands, she gave a “powerful” speech at the meetinghouse no Gracechurch Street. Sadly for Naaniibawikwe, and despite her good rapport with the Queen, the crown turned turned authority over Credit River to the provincial authorities.
Bibliographic sources
Thrush, Coll, Indigenous London, pp11-13; http://www.bunhillquakers.org/WebPublications/Quakers_in_the_City_2ndEd_web.pdf