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The Sharon Temple is now a National Historic site. The Yonge Street Quaker Meeting still exists with a quite small congregation.So beside internal conflicts the Quakers in Newmarket were driven underground or out of the religion completely by persecution in the 1837 Rebellion, their resistance to bearing arms in any conflict, and their resistance to war at any level.
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QUAKERS INTO THE MODERN ERAAfter the Hicksite split and the Willson split the Newmarket Quaker group became smaller and smaller. The families that left became more involved with other religious groups. The families that remained continued their very strict rules about marriage and conduct in the Yonge Street Meeting.
In the more modern era and because of the large families, not all of which could continued on the heritage farm, they became more involved with Newmarket and area commerce.
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