Robert Pyle was an early Quaker settler whose influence in colonial Pennsylvania rested on sustained authority within both religious and civil institutions rather than on published theology or public agitation. Born in 1660 in Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, England. Robert Pyle married Ann Stovey of Hilperton in 1681 under the discipline of Friends’ meetings. Ann was the daughter of William Stovey, remembered for enduring prolonged persecution for his religious convictions, sit