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 JOURNAL 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 LIFE, TRAVELS, and GOSPEL LABOURS, 
 
 O F A 
 FAITHFUL MINISTER 
 
 O F 
 
 J E S a S CHRIST, 
 
 DANIEL ^STANTON, 
 
 Late of Phi L AD E L P HI A, in the Province of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 'With the Teilimony of the Monthly-Meeting of 
 Friends in that City concerning him. 
 
 My Covenant was -with him of Life and Peace^ and I gave them 
 
 to him J for the Fear 'where-ivith he feared me, and was afraid 
 
 before my Name. Mal. ii. 5. 
 
 lie being dead, yet fpeakeih. Heb. xi. 4. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 Pnnted and fold by J o s e p h C r u k s h a n k, in Third- 
 ftreet, oppofite the Work-Houie. 
 
 M DCC LXXIL 
 
THE 
 
 TESTIMONY 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 Monthly Meeting of Fuiends 
 
 in PHILADELPHIA;, 
 
 CONCERNING OUR DEARLY BELOVED FRIEND, 
 
 DANIEL STANTON. 
 
 WHEN John the Divine was in 
 exile in the ifle of Patmos, " He 
 he?ivc\ n voice from Heaven, fay- 
 ing, Write, — BlefTed are the dead, who die 
 in the Lord, from henceforth, yea faith the 
 Ipirit, that they may reft from their la- 
 bom^s, and their works do follow them j" 
 — which we believe now is the portion of 
 our worthy friend, concerning whofe 
 faithful fervices v/e are engaged from the 
 united motives of love and duty, to give 
 this teftimony; deliring, that all who read 
 it, and more efpecially the Youth, may 
 be excited, by his example, to feek an 
 A early 
 
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 early acquaintance with the Lord, and to 
 take up their daily crofs in the prime of 
 their days. — Thus, they alfo, may become 
 Ihining lights and inflruments of good to 
 others. 
 
 H E was born in this city, in the year 
 1708, and his father dying before his 
 birth, and his mother a few years after, 
 he fuffered great trials and hardlhips 
 when very young: — Being early con- 
 cerned to feek the knowledge of God, he 
 had a fervent defire to attend religious 
 meetings, though fubjected to many dif- 
 ficulties and difcouragements, before that 
 privilege was allowed him ; yet, being 
 earnell in his defires to obtain divine fa- 
 vour, he was emln.pnHy fupported under 
 great confiicls and probations, and, con- 
 tinuing faithful to the degrees of light and 
 grace communicated, a difpenfation of 
 the gofpel miniflry was committed to 
 him, fometime before the term of his ap- 
 prenticefhip was expired ; and abiding 
 under the fanctifying power of truth, he 
 grew in his gift, and became a zealous 
 faithful minifler. 
 
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 He was very exemplary in his induf- 
 try and diligence, in labouring faithful- 
 ly at his trade, to provide for his owa 
 fupport, and after he married, and had 
 children, for their maintenance; and was 
 often concerned to advife others to the 
 fame neceffary care; yet he continued 
 fervent in fpirit for the promotion of 
 truth and right eoufnefs, fo that he was 
 foon engaged to leave home, and the 
 neareft connections of nature, to publilh 
 the glad tidings of the gofpel, — and fre- 
 quently vifited moft of the meetings of 
 Friends in this and the adjacent provinces, 
 and feveral times as far as the eafcern 
 parts of New-England. Having thus ho- 
 neftly difchargcd his duty am.orig us 
 above twenty years, and feeling his mind 
 conilrained in the love of the gofpel, to 
 vifit the few Friends who remained in 
 feme of the Weft-India iflands, and from 
 thence the meetins-s of Friends in jreneral 
 through Great- Britain and Ireland, he 
 communicated his concern to a few of his 
 moil: intimate friends^ who having unity 
 therewith, he was encouraged to lay it 
 before our monthly meeting. — Before he 
 entered on this weighty fcrvice^ he palled ' 
 
 through 
 
through a near trial and afHicllon in the 
 death of his beloved wife ; under which 
 cxercife he was gracioufly fupported by 
 the arm of divine ftrength, v/hich had 
 often been revealed for his help, in times 
 of inward conliicls and outward diflrefles. 
 
 His concern to travel in thefervice of 
 truth continuing, and the meeting having 
 full unity with him therein, he embarked 
 in the fifth month, 1748, accompanied by 
 our dear friend, Samuel Nottingham, in 
 a veiTel bound for Barbadoes, and having 
 viiited the few meetings in that ifland, 
 they went by way of Antigua to Tor tola, 
 where they continued fome time, having 
 ibme difficulty to get a pafTage to Eu- 
 rope ; and their voyage thither was at- 
 tended with fome fmgular hazards and 
 dangers, which occafioned their landing 
 in Ireland; v/here our friend Daniel con- 
 tinued feme months, vifiting the meet- 
 ings of Friends in that kingdcmi ; — and 
 after he apprehended himfelf clear, went 
 over to England, and viiited the m.eet- 
 ings generally in that nation, and in 
 Wales and Scotland, where his meek 
 circumfpccl: ccnduct and ccnverfation, 
 
 and 
 
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 and lively edifying miniftry, rendred his 
 viiit very acceptable, and his memory 
 precious. 
 
 In his return home, and for fome time 
 after, he was in a low afflicled flate of 
 mind; being apprehenfive, that through 
 diffidence, and the want of perfect refig- 
 nation to the divine will, he had omitted 
 fully performing the fervice required of 
 him, by not vificing the few Friends in 
 Holland: yet he was mercifully preferved, 
 and after a time of deep exercife, raifed 
 again to fing of the mercies and loving 
 kindnefs of God on the banks of deliver- 
 ance. 
 
 H E feveral times, with other Friends 
 appointed to that fervice, vifited the fami- 
 lies of Friends in this city, and between the 
 years 1757 and i7'<5o, being accompanied 
 by our friend John Pemberton, he vifited 
 the families of Filends generally within 
 the limits of our meeting; which weighty 
 exercifing fervice, he was enabled to per- 
 form to our edification and fatisfaCiion. 
 After which, he was frequently engaged 
 
 to 
 
to excite Friends to this lufeful and edify- 
 ing pra6lice. 
 
 In the twelfth month, 1760, he fet out 
 on a vifit to the meetings in the weftern 
 parts of this province, and from thence 
 in Maryland, Virginia, and North and 
 South-Carolina, and returned in the fixth 
 month following ; fince which he fre- 
 quently vifited many of the meetings 
 near home, and fome as far as Long-ifland, 
 and other parts of the province of New- 
 York. Within the lafl two years, he 
 vifited the families of Friends of fome of 
 the meetings in Weft Jerfey, in the city 
 of New-York, and part of Long-Iflandj 
 and after his return from this fervice, 
 with great peace and fatisfaclion, he ex- 
 preffcd his apprehenfion that he was now 
 clear of all places, and that his ftay here 
 was near over j — having an evidence, that 
 he had been faithfully concerned from 
 his youth to fear and ferve God. 
 
 His chief labour and reliQ:ious exer- 
 cifes were in this city, w^here he was a di- 
 ligent attendcr of all our meetings, and 
 
 often 
 
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 bften on committees appointed on the 
 fervices of the church ; in which he was 
 fblid and weighty in fpirit, waiting for 
 the fpringing up of life, being fteadily 
 conceraed both in and out of meetings, 
 to live near the divine fountain : Thus he 
 was very frequently qualified, and en- 
 abled to ftir up the pure mind, and to re- 
 count the gracious dealings of God to 
 Mankind, and as a faithful embafTador to 
 warn the negligent to flee from the wrath 
 to come, and to excite the people to 
 bring forth fruits anfwerable to the great 
 mercies gracioufly beflowed on us ; and 
 was fometimes conflrained to declare in a 
 prophetic manner, a day of trial, in divers 
 inflances, very Ihortly before fuch a fea- 
 jfon came to pafs. 
 
 He was of late deeply exercifed in 
 confideration of the evils of the horfe 
 races, flage plays, drunkennefs, and o- 
 ther grofs enormities encouraged and in- 
 creafing in this city ; clofely exhorting 
 our youth agalnfl thofe pernicious and 
 deflru6tive devices of the enemy of man- 
 kind ; and under the awful fenfe that God 
 B will 
 
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 will judge and puniili the wicked and evi\ 
 doers, he was often fervent in public fup«» 
 plications, that the Lord would lengthen 
 out the day of his merciful vifitation, and 
 yet try the people longer ; which feafons • 
 were folemn and humbhngly affe6ling ; 
 manife fling, that although he was very 
 clofe and fharp in reproof againfl evil, yec 
 moft tenderly concerned, that the tranf- 
 grefibrs of the righteous law of God 
 might be prevailed with to repent, re«- 
 turn, and live. 
 
 His love for the rifing generation was 
 very great j.which he manifefled by his af- 
 fectionate notice of them, and efpecially 
 of thofe who were religioufly inclined, 
 and his houfe was open to receive fuch, 
 his converfation with them being feafoned 
 with grace, and his counfel inftrudive and 
 helpful to thofe who had feeking defires 
 after the knowledge of truth, often lov- 
 ingly inviting them to come, taile, and 
 fee, that the Lord is good ; greatly d,q- 
 iirihg, that all who profefs the truth, 
 might walk agreeable to its dictates and 
 be led tliereby, as our worthy predccef- 
 
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 fors were, into that meeknefs, humility, 
 and godly fimplicity and plainnefs, which 
 rendered them confpicuous and iliining 
 examples, and that none might reil fhcyrt 
 of the enjoyment of the life of religion, 
 his zeal being great againll fuch, who 
 have the form of godlinefs, and by their 
 aclions manifcO: they have not the pow- 
 er thereof ; — and he often fervently ad- 
 vised and cautioned thofe who are eager- 
 ly purfuing the world, and by the fur- 
 feiting cares, and grafping after earthly 
 treafures, fruflrate the good purpofe of 
 the vilitation of divine grace to them, 
 and clofely reminded thofe, whp in their 
 fmall beginnings were low and humble, 
 that now they were abundantly favoured, 
 they fliould not fet their afFeclions on 
 things below, but remember the rock 
 from whence they were hewn ; — and his 
 concern was great that thofe who had the 
 glad tidings of the gofpel to publiili, 
 might be true examples to the flock, and 
 adorn the doclrine they had tp deliver 
 by a circumfpecl Yiiq and converfation, 
 and where any by not Readily keeping to 
 that which would have preferved them, 
 B 2 had 
 
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 had involved themfelves in dlfficultiea, 
 either by letting their minds out to the 
 gains and profits of this world, or other- 
 wife, his travail was great for fuch that 
 they might be brought through, and eve- 
 ry cloud and mifl removed. 
 
 He Xvas much employed in viiiting 
 tlie iick and affiicled, to whom he admi- 
 niftred his fpiritual advice and experience, 
 and often engaged in humble prayer for 
 their fupport ; and in the diflributing to 
 the neceffitous according to his circum- 
 fiances, he manifelled his benevolent dif- 
 polition* 
 
 As he had been many years under 
 great exercife and fuffering of fpirit on 
 accountof theflaveryof thepoor Africajis, 
 and frequently bore teftimony againft that 
 unrighteous gain of oppreilion, he was of 
 late fomewhat relieved, as he found the 
 eyes of the people become more open to 
 fee the iniquity of the practice ; and he 
 died in faith, that the light of the gofpel 
 will fo generally prevail, that the profef- 
 fors of chriftianity will find it their duty 
 
 to 
 
to reftorc to thefe people tkeir natural 
 right to liberty, and to inftruct them in 
 the principles of thechriftian religion. 
 
 On the fifth day of the fifth month, 
 he was violently feized with the bilious 
 cholic, and continued in great pain feve- 
 ral days ; but afterwards being fomewhat 
 eafier, he was at our morning and cvenr 
 ing Meetings on Firftday, the thirteenth 
 of the month, in which he was much fa- 
 voured in his public miniftry, and expreiT- 
 ed that he thought his time would not 
 be long with us. After this day's labouf, 
 he was again confined, yet being a little 
 recovered he! as at our meetiAg on Fifth- 
 day, the twenty-fourth of the month; 
 which being fmall, he exprefled his for- 
 row for it, and encouraged Friends to 
 diligence in the attendance of week day 
 meetings, the benefit of a faithful dif- 
 charge of duty therein being great ; — 
 the next day he was at our monthly 
 meeting, and to his own and our admi- 
 ration was enabled to flay through both 
 our fittings, though the laft of tkem was . 
 longer than ufual, and he afterwards ex- 
 prefled 
 
prefled that he thought himfclf better in 
 the meeting than when out ; — it was a fca- 
 fon of divine favour, and fome weigh- 
 ty matters being before the meeting, he 
 with great opennefs fpokc pertinently 
 and clearly to them, encouraging Friends 
 to the fupporting and maintaining our 
 chriilian f eftimony, againft all that is con- 
 trary to it : This was the laft public meet- 
 ing he was at, being the next morning 
 early feized with a renewed attack of the 
 fame diforder, which increafed on him 
 feveral days, and was fo fixed, that all 
 the endeavours of feveral ikilful phylici- 
 ans and tender nurfes, v/ere not effec- 
 tual to remove it, tho' in fome meafure 
 to mitigate the pain, that he fuffered 
 much, not being able to lie down in his 
 bed feveral weeks, yet thro' all he was 
 mercifully fupported, in much refignati- 
 on, and patience, rather inclining, if it 
 •was the Lord's will, to be releafed. 
 
 For two or three weeks before his 
 ficknefs, he appeared very defirous of 
 fettling every thing he had to do refpecl- 
 ing the affairs of this life, and defired a 
 
 Friend 
 
Friend to review and tranfcribe the fliort 
 memoirs he hath left of his travels and 
 religious fervices, and to write his will, 
 which he executed the day before he was 
 firft taken lick, and then appeared eafy ia 
 his mind. 
 
 D u R I K G the time of his licknefs he 
 often expreffed his concern le^ft his 
 Friends ihould be too anxious for his re- 
 covery, faying, if he ihould live longer, 
 and thro' any human frailty or infirmity 
 occaiion any reproach, it would be a 
 caufeofforrow to them. 
 
 By the defire of his Friends who attend* 
 cd him, l\e rode out feveral times, tho' 
 not without much difliculty, and fpent 
 the two lafl days of his life at the houfes 
 of two of his intimate Friends. As he 
 drew near his end, the flrength of his 
 love to mankind in general, and his 
 Friends in particular, evidently increafed, 
 much deiiring the profperity of truth, and 
 when a meeting time came had an ear- 
 ned defire to b| with Friends, and parti- 
 cularly the day before his departure. 
 
 DuRiNa 
 
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 During his ficknefs, he frequently 
 exprefTed himfelf in a very feafonable, in- 
 flru^live, and afFeding manaer ; and the 
 evening of the Firftday before he dyedj 
 feveral Friends coming in to fee him, he 
 fpoke a confiderable time to them, having 
 before been deftrous of fuch an opportuni- 
 ty of the company of his Friends, to fit 
 down and wait upon God, w^hich was 
 his great deUght. 
 
 The laft day of his life he fpent at 
 the houfe of his Friend Ifrael Pemberton, 
 at Germantown, and was unufually free 
 and chearful, even till ten o'clock at night, 
 when he undrefTed himfelf, and went in- 
 to bed, remarking on lying down, that: 
 he had not before been able to do fo, for 
 five weeks or upwards, and he foon after 
 fell ajleep, but in a fhort time was awak- 
 ened by the return of pain and difficulty 
 of breathing, which thro' his illnefs he 
 had been much afHicled with, fo that he 
 was oblig'd to fet up in bed, and thus 
 continued, at intervals freely converfing 
 with our faid Friend, who fat up with 
 him, and he exprefTed his great thankful- 
 
 nefs 
 
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 iiers that his head was prefervcd free from 
 pain and his underftanding clear, and that 
 though it had been a time of clofe trial 
 and deep probation, he could fay he felt 
 the evidence of divine fupport ftill to at- 
 tend him. — After which, his pains increaf- 
 ing he got up and drelTed himfelf, and 
 walking about the room fometime,fat down 
 in an eafy chair, in which he fell into a 
 fweet deep, and in about three hours de- 
 parted without figh or groan. 
 
 Thus died this righteous man, who 
 having fought the good light and kept the 
 faith, finiihed his courfe in full unity with 
 us, and univerfally beloved by his fellow 
 citizens, on the twenty eighth day of the 
 fixth month, 1770, in the 62d year of his 
 age and 43d, of his miniftry. His body 
 was the next day attended by a large num- 
 ber of people of divers religious denomi- 
 nations to our meeting houfe, and after- 
 wards interred in Friends burial ground 
 in this city. 
 
 Signed 07i hehalf, and hy appointt?ient of our Month- 
 ly Meeting, held in Philadelphia, by adjournment, 
 the 2d of the eighth mo7ith 1770. 
 
 JAMES PEMBERTON, Clerk. 
 C 
 
Daniel Stx^nton's 
 
 ACCOUNT 
 
 Of HIS 
 
 LIFE, TRAVELS and LABOURS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 Service of the GOSPEL. 
 
 His Birth andTarentage ; — Apprentice/hip^ 
 —JirJ} coining forth in the Mini/lry ; — 
 and jirfl Journey to Rhode-illand ; — his 
 marriage and. fecond Journey, to New-Kng^ 
 land, ^c. 
 
 IN a grateful fenfe of the many helps 
 and great goodnefs of the Almigh- 
 ty to my foul, whereby he has been 
 pleafed from my young years to incline 
 my heart to fear and ferve him ; it is on 
 my mind to leave fome account of my 
 life, travels, and experience ; wifhing it 
 may be a means to ftir up the pure mind 
 in any, to obey the will of the Lord^ and 
 to ferve him, while they have time and 
 
 opportunity 
 
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 opportunity* to perform the fame ; for he 
 is worthy to be had in everlafting remem- 
 brance, and is a good rewarder of all the 
 lincere in heart ; although they may have 
 tribulations on the earth, they have alfo 
 the company of Chrift our dear redeemer, 
 who promifed to be with his difciples to 
 the end of the world. 
 
 The place B Y the account I have had, I was born 
 hLblrth.*^ in the year 1708, in Philadelphia, in the 
 province of Pennfylvania, of honefl pa- 
 rents, Daniel and Abigail Stanton, and 
 it was my hard lot foon to be deprived of 
 them both ; my father I never faw, he be- 
 ing loll at Sea fometime before I was born ; 
 and my mother died when I was a child, fo 
 that I have but little remembrance of her. 
 
 After her death, I met with great 
 hardfhips, both of body and mind, being 
 deftitute of parents, and of brother or fif- 
 ter, that I was in a lonely ftate, and went 
 to live at feveral places a fhort time, the 
 lafl of which (before I was put apprentice) 
 was in New-Jerfey, with my mother's 
 brother j during which time, I went 
 
 through 
 
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 through great difficulties, too tedious to 
 mention. 
 
 I LIVED there feveral years, and had 
 no opportunity to go to any place of reli- 
 gious worfliip ; but the lord was pleafed 
 by his grace and good vifitation, to ope- 
 rate on my mind, that I was made to 
 dread and fear the great almighty Being, 
 and it was given me to know, that " God 
 *^ is afpirlt, and they who worjhip him^mujl 
 " worJhip hhn in fpirit and triith^^ ; and 
 through the blefled knowledge of God by 
 his holy fpirit, I had great reproof in my 
 own bread for fin and tranfgreffion, and 
 dreaded to fpeak bad words, or to do 
 what was evil, and was brought by inward 
 convidion to mourn, and feek for mercy 
 for my loul ; and at a time when I heard 
 of the fuffering of my dear Saviour on the 
 crofs, and how he fufFered unto death, my 
 heart was broken before the Lord, and I 
 went alone and wept, being much affect- 
 ed with a fenfe of his fuffering by that 
 hard 'hearted people, the Jews^ and of his 
 being crucified : — Great was the goodnefs 
 of the Almighty to me, in giving me a 
 
 fenfe 
 
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 fenfe of many things appertaining to God*- 
 linefs, in the time of this tender vifitation ; 
 and I found by the divine witnefs in my- 
 felf, that if I would be a difciple of Chrifl, 
 I mufl take up my crofs daily, to that 
 v/h-ich difpleafeth God ; he being greatly 
 to be feared and obeyed, and was worthy 
 of the deepeft reverence that my foul, bo- 
 dy and ftrength could afcribe to his all 
 powerful name. 
 
 Although it was hard to the natu- 
 ral part to become flain to the recreations 
 and pleafures of this life ; fervent were 
 my cries and feeking after the ways of 
 the lord, and I thought much of eternity 
 in another world. 
 
 His firft at- I H A D heard of many forms of worfliip, 
 ^ellngs"^ but had no opportunity to be- with the 
 foriciiai- people for that ferviee to God, which wa^ 
 
 o\is. war- Jr r 
 
 ^^P' a great trouble to my mind ; but at one 
 
 time 1 afked leave to go and fee a relation-, 
 with an intention for him to fliew me the 
 way to the meeting of Friends, which was 
 held at New-town in Olocefter county ; he 
 was loath ta take the pains to- aecompany 
 
 me, 
 
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 mc, nt)t knowing tlie fdid d«fire of my 
 tnmd ; but through penfiaafion, I prevail- 
 ed with kim to go wit3a me to the meet- 
 ing, where I was more defirous to get 
 fome good, than tobefeenof men. We 
 fet in a part of the meeting together, 
 where we were not much noticed by any 
 that I know of, and in this bleffed oppor- 
 tunity, through the power of truth, and 
 the good teftimony of that dear fervant of 
 Chrift, Jfobn EJlaugh^ being attended with 
 the authority of the word of Hfe, my 
 heart was greatly contrited and my fpirit 
 baptized in the prefence of God, it was a 
 joyful day of good tidings to my poor 
 feekingfoul, and the eminent and power- 
 ful advice, that did attend that worthy 
 inftrument in the Lord*s hand for my fal- 
 vation, has been like " bread caft upon 
 " the waters that has been found after 
 '' many days.*' 
 
 I w E N T from that meeting much fatis- 
 fied with the way of worihip of Friends, 
 and continued earneft in fpirit, that I 
 might have further knowledge of the blef- 
 fed truth 5 my inward exercifes were a 
 
 great 
 
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 great deal of forrow and mourning, that 
 I might come forward in the work of re-* 
 ligion, and do that which was right in the 
 fight of God. 
 
 Living with my uncle till near the 
 age of fixteen years, I became uneafy, be- 
 ing deiirous to learn a trade, not knowing 
 what I might have to depend on for a live- 
 lihood, more than the labour of my hands^ 
 altho' my mother left confiderable at het 
 death, under the care of thofe who fhe 
 expeded would do juftly by me ; but it 
 proved otherwife, they depriving me of 
 the whole, to a fmall matter, lefs than 
 twenty pounds : I went on trial to a fliip 
 carpenter in Philadelphia, in condefcen- 
 tion to my uncle, it being a trade he ra- 
 ther chofe for me, than I did for myfelf, 
 and was there fometime, tho' I foon was 
 diffatisfied both with the trade, and on 
 account of the wicked converlation of the 
 people of the yard, who being very vain, 
 were a great exercife to my mind ; tho* 
 my m.afler and miRrefs were kind and 
 friendly to me, which was fomc comfort ^ 
 but the grcateft fatisfaclion I had in this 
 
 world. 
 
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 world, was that I could attend religious 
 meetings on the firft day of the week, and 
 was often favoured to hear the truth de- 
 clared in the demonftration of the fpirit 
 and power, as alfo a fecret divine power 
 being at work in my heart, afforded folid 
 pleafure and profit, in the midft of my 
 trials ; for, being foberly inclined, and de- 
 lighting to attend religious meetings, I 
 met with fcoffings and mockings, and 
 fome in an outrage would bid me go along 
 to meeting, defpiling my diligence on 
 that account ; but I was enabled through 
 mercy and grace, to bear revilings as well 
 as many deep diflreiTes, which fell to my 
 lot ; being much concerned to feek after 
 the kingdom of God, and his righteouf- 
 nefs ; oh the inward travel that 1 under- 
 went, none knew but the Lord ! And at 
 an evening meeting near where I fat, a lit- 
 tle way from the door, Benjamin Kidd, 
 a Friend of the miniftry, then on a vifit 
 to this province, from Old-England, came 
 in and fat juft by me, and in the meeting 
 was eminently favoured in prayer, which 
 1 have many times thought was a particu- 
 lar inftance of divine mercy to me, in fo 
 D deep 
 
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 deep a travel of foul and fpiiit, as I had 
 to wade through in fcveral refpeds at that 
 time. 
 
 Hisappren- After being fome time at the fliip 
 'iccltip. carpenters trade, which not being agree- 
 able to me, I went again to my uncle's, 
 where came a Friend from Philadelphia, 
 who having feen me when I lived in town, 
 would have me to go apprentice to him, 
 he being a joiner ; which I accordingly 
 did, beUeving it would be of good fervice 
 for me to have a trade to depend on ; and 
 ferved with him until I was about the 
 age of twenty two years, and in the time 
 of my apprenticefhip, the goodnefs. of the 
 almighty was great in preferving me 
 through my tribulations, which were va- 
 rious, beyond my fetting forth ; but the 
 pure love and fear of the Lord, accompa- 
 nying my fpirit, and through the divine 
 Phiiadci- appearance of light and grace, I was led 
 f ^''^' in a clofe walking before him ; and my 
 
 underftanding was opened to have a fight 
 of many things, which the fpirit of truth 
 leads into ; fome whereof were plainnefs 
 in fpeech and cloathing, few words in 
 
 converfation. 
 
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 converfation, watchfulnefs and prayer, 
 chooiing rather to be alone, than in the 
 company of thofe whofe difcourfe and 
 talking was out of the fear of God. 
 
 I MUCH delighted in retirement, and 
 often walked alone and poured out my 
 complaints before the allfeeing eye, that 
 knew the condition of my heart, defiring 
 that he would be pleafed " to create in me 
 " a clean heart, and to renew a right fpi- 
 " rit within me." I wanted to know 
 the work of reformation effeclually carri- 
 ed on, according to the mind and will of 
 the bleffed truth, and the'nearer tkept to 
 what it made manifeft, the greater ftrength 
 and dominion was given me to overcome 
 the defilenaents of the world ; and a con- 
 cern cailie upon me in obferving the pride 
 and vain glory of the times : — I had very 
 few acquaintance, and was rather defpifed 
 and derided by fome, who overlooked 
 the Juft Witnefs of Grace in themfelves ; 
 "I chbfe rather to fuffer afflidion with 
 " the people of God, than to enjoy the 
 « pleafures of fm, for a feafon j" " The 
 ^'fuferings of this frefent time worketh for 
 D 2 mJ' 
 
[ 10 ] 
 
 f/j," as the apoftle faith, " a more es'ceeding 
 *' and eternal weight of glory ^^ and the blef- 
 fed peace, that our dear Lord gives to 
 thofe who follow hirn whilft here, is a re- 
 ward fufficient to the fincere in heart, to 
 hold out to the end. 
 
 The countenance and good example of 
 faithful Friends had a great reach on my 
 mind, and when I came to be more ac- 
 quainted with the deahngs of the Lord, 
 and could get frequently to religious 
 meetings, and beheld the fitting of his 
 fervants, and attendance of his minifters, 
 I could fay, as did the queen of the South, 
 who came from far to fee the wifdom of 
 Solomon, that the one half had not been 
 told me, and one greater than Solomon 
 was in the midft of his people \ praifed be 
 his great name, even the name of Chrift 
 our dear Lord, that greatly appeared in 
 power and majefty in Sion in thofe days, 
 to the tendering my heart and fpirit be- 
 fore him time after time, and not only 
 eminently vifited my foul, by his glori- 
 ous light and truth, but fent many of his 
 fervants among us, from far and near, 
 
 filled 
 
ftry. 
 
 filled with gofpel rain, to the watering 
 the heritage of God ; and the Lord, the 
 mafter of our afTembUes, was pleafed to 
 faften their teflimonies as nails in a fure 
 place. 
 
 After many powerful feafons of di- "arance^'h 
 vine grace, being favoured to fee the J]"^ ""'"'" 
 goodnefs of the Lord in the land of the 
 living, as alfo " to tafte and handle of the 
 " good word oflife,"a great concern of foul 
 came upon me to open my mouth in a 
 public manner, for the caufe of religion, 
 and the profperity of Sion, which was a 
 great and weighty work for me to engage 
 in, being one of the meaneft in this 
 world, as I thought, and an apprentice lad, 
 reafons would arife in me againft fo great 
 a duty, not knowing how I might be ufed 
 by my mafter, and whether it might agree 
 with the unity of Friends, they being a 
 great and wife people in this city, and by 
 their knowledge and experience, were 
 gifted with afightof fpiritual things, be- 
 yond my low capacity, as well as zealous 
 for the good caufe of God in their day. — 
 I waded for a confiderable time through 
 
 much 
 
C 12 ] 
 
 nruch ti'ouble and forrow of fpirit, left I 
 Ihould go too faft, or before my divine 
 Guide, for they who go before they 
 are fent, cannot profit the people, or have 
 peace in themfelves, and peace to me and 
 to do the will of the Lord, was what I 
 mofl defired ; oh ! the earn eft prayers 
 •that were in my heart that I might be 
 rightly dire6led in all things, to the ho- 
 nour and praife of my blefted Lord and 
 mailer ; and a degree of his mighty power 
 would lay fuch conftraints upon me, that 
 for Sion's fake I could not reft, and for 
 Jerufalem's fake I could not hold my peace; 
 fo that after many powerful influences of 
 the divine word, at about the age of 
 twenty years I appeared in a few words, 
 in prayer, at an evening meeting, in Phi- 
 ladelphia, and after this, fometimes in a 
 few words by way of teftimony, as they 
 were put in my heart, in a great deal of 
 fear and dread of the Almighty Being; 
 and Friends bore with my appearance 
 with much tendernefs, and the miniftry 
 of thole who were largely gifted in the 
 myfteries of the kingdom, and like fcribes 
 well inftrucled thereto, that could bring 
 
 out 
 
[ 13 ] 
 
 out of the treafury things new and old, 
 would correfpond with what I had to fay- 
 in the fear of Lord ; which blcfled helps, 
 together with the evidence of peace in niy 
 own bieaft, gave a confirmation to my 
 mind, that I was in the way of my duty. 
 
 After I came forth in this laborious 
 exercife, I dreamed a dream, or faw in a 
 viiion, that I v/as as a little child born in- 
 to the world, and my mother was very 
 tender of me (who I have thought to be 
 the church) but there was an enemy that 
 fought my life, and as though he would 
 deftroy me, but Ihe that was my mother 
 made herefcape, and carried me into the 
 wildernefs, and we were preferved. — At 
 another time when I was much concerned 
 in fpirit for acceptance with the Lord, I 
 dreamed that I was travelling in a path, in 
 which I met with fome difficulties, and 
 got through them and met with death, 
 and a man came with a book, and it was 
 faid that my foul was acceptable with the 
 Lord. I have had great caufe to fpeak 
 well of his excellent name for the reveal- 
 ing his fecrets to my underilanding, as I 
 kept in his holy fear. About 
 
[ 14 ] 
 
 About the time that I firft appeared 
 in words in thecongregationsof theLord^s 
 people, and fometime before, the glorious 
 day fpring from on high powerfully ap- 
 peared amongft us, and feveral were en- 
 gaged to fpeak to the praife of the Al- 
 mighty, and to bear teftimony to his 
 great and good name, three before I ap- 
 peared, and two afterwards ; the firft 
 were Mary Nicholls, Benjamin Trotter, 
 and Mary Emlen, the next were Joyce 
 Marriot, and Elizabeth Widdifield, who 
 continued ferviceable minifters among 
 Friends. I thought it might be faid to be 
 a time in fome meafure of the fulfilling the 
 prophecy of the prophet Joel, " / will 
 *' pour out my Jpirit upon allflefi^ and your 
 " fons and your daughters JJmll prophecy^ your ' 
 *' old 7nen JJj all dream dreams^ your young men 
 " Jhallfee vifions ; and alfo upon the fervants^ 
 '' and upon the handmaids In thofe days^ will 
 " Ipouroutmyfpirit'^ Joel ii. 28, 29, 30. 
 The plainnefs, zeal, and pious example of 
 many Friends in thofe days, made them 
 as lights in this city, and inftruclors to me 
 to follow them, as they followed Chrift ; 
 and as I kept inward before the Lord in 
 
 hfs 
 
C 15 J 
 
 his fear, he was pleafed to reveal his blef- 
 fcd mind and will, in things concerning 
 the Gofpel miniftry, which is not to be re- 
 ceived from man nor in the will of man ; 
 but by the revelation of Jefus Chrifl ; and 
 as I grew in the gift communicated to me, 
 he was pleafed to give me an open door 
 in the hearts of his people ; praifed be his 
 great name for ever more ! And fome- 
 times I had drawings in my mind to go to 
 a neighbouring meeting, and what I had 
 to fay in their hearing was well received. 
 
 After I had ferved out my appren- ^/"jf^f ^f 
 ticefhip, I wrought journey-v^ork, and prentice- 
 Kvedwithmymafler until his death, which 
 was foon after I was free, and then 
 wrought with another Friend in the city 
 fome time, when having an opportunity 
 to go to Rhode-ifland, the place where my 
 father was born, and feveral of his rela- 
 tions living there, I was defirous to fee 
 them, and while I was apprentice having 
 an account of fome eftate that was my fa- 
 ther's, laying in that country; on this /^''' 
 account, and to fee my relations and journey to 
 Friends^ I took a journey in the year ifiand. 
 E 1731, 
 
[ i6 1 
 
 1 73 1, with Henry Frankland, from Old^ 
 England, who came to America, on the 
 fervice of truth, and being about going 
 to thofe parts, was fo kind as to take my 
 company. He was a folid exemplary wor- 
 thy Friend, whofe miniflry and gofpel la* 
 bour was to edification among Friends. 
 My undertaking this journey was laid be- 
 fore our Monthly-Meeting, and Friends 
 were pleafed to give me a certificate. 
 
 The firft meeting we went to, w^as at 
 Eurlington, and from thence to feveral 
 others in New-Jerfey, as Little-Egg-har- 
 bour, Manefquan,Shrewfbury and Wood- 
 bridge, and fo to New-York, and to meet- 
 ings on the Main, and the Yearly Meet- 
 ing at Fluihing, and to Friend's meetings 
 pretty generally on Long-ifland ; feveral 
 of which were much to fatisfaclion and 
 comfort j and I was glad to fee and find 
 the near unity that was among Friends, 
 where our lot was caft. 
 
 F E. o M this ifland we went through 
 Coneclicut, which was a baptizing time 
 to me, being a young traveller, not much 
 
 acquainted 
 
[ 17 ] 
 
 acquainted with the difference of places, 
 and behaviour of people from home, their 
 converfation, as alfo their principles, 
 through that government being greatly- 
 different from Friends, and altho' hio^h ia 
 profellion of religion, feemed to me very 
 little acquainted with the light and fpirit 
 of Chrifl. It w^as a dark time, in which I 
 went through much deep inward fuffer- 
 ing. We pafTed along until we got to 
 Kingflown, near Rhode-ifland, where 
 we had a meeting, and then had one on 
 Connanicut, and attended the Yearly- 
 Meeting at Nevv^port,Rhode-iIland, which 
 was very large, and I hope a good meet- 
 ing to a folid remnant. My Friend Henry 
 Frankland, whom I accompanied fo far, 
 proceeded on his journey to vifit Friends 
 in New-England, and I {laid in order to 
 get my outward affairs fettled, and to vi- 
 fit feveral Friends on that ifland, one of 
 which was that dear and worthy Friend 
 Jacob Mott, whofe countenance friined 
 and appeared as a follower and fervant of 
 Chrifl, it did me good to fee him, and 
 when I took my leave of him, his folid ad- 
 vice to me made lading impreilions on my 
 E 2 mindp— 
 
[ i8 3 
 
 mind. — After I had ftaid fome time at this 
 place, and had feen my relations and 
 Friends, I returned back to Philadelphia, 
 where I had known in an extraordinary- 
 manner, the gracious dealings of the Al- 
 mighty ; and I endeavoured to feek coun- 
 fel of him to know where I had bed fettle 
 myfelf in the world, and it feemed moft 
 fuitable for me to continue in this city, 
 where I wrought journey-work at my 
 trade fometime ; after which I rented a 
 fliop, and fat up for myfelf, humbly deii- 
 ring of the Lord to add his blelllng to my 
 endeavours, not that I craved great things, 
 but that by an honeft induftrious care I 
 might have what was needful, as food 
 and raiment, and defired " to dojuftly, 
 *' love mercy,and walk humbly with God/* 
 And the abundant mercies and bleffings 
 wherewith he was gracioufly pleafed ta 
 make way for me, both in things fpiricu- 
 al and temporal, were and are gratefully 
 to be remembred by me, his goodnefs and 
 peace being as a ftream of living water to. 
 my foul, when favoured to drink there* 
 
 I W R O U G H T 
 
I WROUGHT hard at my outward call- 
 ing when at home, yet not fo much con- 
 fined but that I kept clofe to religious 
 meetings ; in which the good prefence of 
 Chrifl: our dear Lord, would many times 
 overfliadow them, and I have had to fit 
 under the fhadow thereof with great de- 
 light, and after fuch precious meetings 
 with his people, I found my mind better 
 qualified to attend to my necelTary bufinefs 
 and the affairs of life ; and when the mo- 
 tions of truth would fpring in my heart 
 to vifit religious meetings in places adja- 
 cent in Pennfylvania and New-Jerfey, I 
 freely gave up to go to them, and fincere- 
 ly laboured therein in the love of truth, in 
 which I found great fatisfaclion, and with 
 many Friends, the unity of the fpirit in 
 the bond of peace, and I hope in places 
 my labour was of fome fervice ; the praife 
 of which I freely attribute to my great 
 Lord and mafler Jefus Chrifl ; bleffed be 
 his holy name ! he fuflained and fupport- 
 ed me, and through his gifs and grace 
 preferved me in the fear of God ; his fear 
 was a fountain of life as well as unfpeaka- 
 ble pleafure in my firfl fetting out in the 
 
 world 
 
[ 20 ] 
 
 world for myfelf ; Oh ! the ftreams of the 
 celeftial fountain or waters of life ftand o- 
 pen to all that are athirft, that they may 
 drink, and they may have wine and milk 
 without money and without price. — I 
 wifh that there was a more general thirft 
 in the children of men, to drink of this 
 water, which Chrift our Lord has promi- 
 fed to give to true believers, and that it 
 ihould be in them a well of water fpring- 
 ing up into everlafting life ; and he has 
 faid of himfelf, " / am the Iivi?2g bread 
 *' which came down from Heaven^ if any man 
 *' eat of this bread he fijall live for ever^ 
 John vi. 51. Oh ! how great is his good- 
 nefs and condefcenfion to hungering and 
 thirfling fouls, and thanks to him for ever 
 more 1 they that eat of this living bread, 
 partake of the bleffed communion, and 
 know the fupper of the Lord ; alfo fenfi- 
 bly partake of the new wine of the king- 
 dom ; they are like new bottles filled with 
 new v/ine, and know him to drink and 
 fup with them of this wine, new in his 
 heavenly Father's kingdom ; I take thofe 
 to be new bottles that are created a new 
 in Jcfus Chrift unto good works, and that 
 
 know 
 
[ .1 ] 
 
 know the kingdom of our heavenly F2C- 
 ther to be come, and his will to be done on 
 earth as it is done in Heaven ; and as we 
 are taught to pray for this, it would be 
 well for all mankind to come to the expe- 
 rience of it in themfelves ; for Chrift our 
 Lord faid to fome of old, " The kingdom of 
 heaven is wit Join you ;" and- the faithful 
 have it in their experience to be the fame 
 now : It is a kingdom that coniifls of 
 peace and joy to the faithful fubjecls of 
 his holy reign and government. 
 
 In the year 1732, I found freedom in '75: 
 my mind to accompany my uncle Thomas 
 Chalkley to vifit fome of the meetings of 
 Friends in Bucks county and New-Jer- 
 fey, and afterwards Chefler county ; in 
 the performance of which we had near 
 fellowfliip together, and Friends were 
 kind, and I believe glad to fee us ; feve- 
 ral of thofe meetings were large, and I 
 hope comfortable to many. He was a near 
 fellowhelper to me in my religious labours 
 for the promotion of truth, and a bright 
 example in the meeknefs and patience of • 
 the laoib ; I do not know that I was ever 
 
 acquain.ted 
 
L " 3 
 
 acquainted with a man more inward, 
 whofe heart feemed to be more placed up- 
 on heavenly treafure,both in meetings and 
 out of them, than this dear difciple of 
 Chrift. 
 
 173?. When thefe viilts were accomplifhed. 
 
 His marri- J having been engaged on account of mar- 
 riage to Sarah Lloyd, a virtuous young 
 woman who feared the Lord, daughter 
 of honeft parents, John and Sarah Lloyd 
 of this city, on the fifth day of the fe- 
 cond month, 1733, we accomplifhed 
 that weighty undertaking in the pure fear 
 of the Lord, in near affection to each o- 
 ther, and with the unity of Friends ; and 
 after I was agreeably fettled, my heart was 
 Hill given up to go of the Lord's errands, 
 as he was pleafed to fend me, and vifited 
 Friends in thefe two provinces (Pennfyl- 
 vania and New-Jerfey) and other places, 
 as the motion of life engaged me from 
 place to place, and in a fhort time after I 
 went as far as Shrewfbury, and fame 
 meetings thereaways. 
 
 In 
 
t 23 ] 
 
 In the year 1734, I vifited the meet- *'^'^' 
 ings of Friends at Salem, Alloways creek, 
 Greenwich, Cape-May and Great-Egg- 
 harbour, feveral of which were to fatis- 
 faclion and comfort. 
 
 And in the year 1735, having aeon* ^'^^^' 
 cem on my mind to vifit Friends in New- vifit J*^°" 
 England, and our Monthly-Meeting in l^X^"^^ 
 this city, giving me a certificate of their 
 concurrence therewith, I accordingly 
 proceeded, and was at feveral meetings in 
 the Jerfeys, from thence I went to the 
 Yearly-Meeting at Flufiiing, on Long- 
 illand, where was our Friend Jofeph Gill 
 from Ireland, and feveral from Pennfyl- 
 vania, the meetings were large, and reli- 
 gious labour was beftowed among the 
 people. After it I vifited Friends generally 
 on that ifland, many of the meetings be- 
 ing very large and comfortable, attended 
 I truftwith thebleffed power and prefence 
 of the Lord, which begat great nearnefs 
 in the bcflfellowfhip with the tender-mind- 
 ed. I then proceeded to meetings on 
 the Main, as Wefl-Chefler, Mamarineck, 
 Rye, and feveral others 3 fome of which 
 F were 
 
L M ] 
 'US' were large and foHd ; from thence, after 
 Sr^"^' being at fome meetings in Cone£licut, 
 I went forward to Rhode-ifland, which 
 was a wearifome travel ; but I got to New- 
 port, and met with a kind reception from 
 Friends, whom 1 vifited in much love, 
 there being a great number who make a 
 profefiion of the way of truth ; I was glad 
 to fee them, and could have been more fo 
 that all lived in pofTeflion of the fame. 
 From Rhode-ifland I took meetings in my 
 way to Nantucket, where on my arriving 
 I was kindly taken home by Nathaniel 
 Starbuck, whofe heart and houfe were 
 open to receive the meifengersof Chrift. — ■ 
 On this illand I met with a great number 
 of choice exemplary Friends, and had fe- 
 veral meetings among them, which I be- 
 lieve tended to edification. Being clear 
 of this place, I returned to the Main, and 
 taking meetings in my w^ay, came to Bof- 
 ton, where I fpent fome time with Friends, 
 both in public meetings and in their fami- 
 lies ; they being loving to me and glad of 
 being vifited, their number being fmall in 
 the whole, but feemed to be well treated 
 by people of other perfuafions, far differ- 
 ent 
 
C 25 ] 
 
 ent from what it was in the early vifits of 
 Friends to that place, in which fome of 
 the fervants of the moil high, fuffercd un- 
 to death. From Bofton I went to Lyn, 
 Salem, and Newberry, and had comfor- 
 table meetings, as alfo at another place 
 between Newberry and Dover, and after 
 I had feen Friends at Dover and Cache- 
 chy, and a meeting near Dover, I return- 
 ed, to Salem and Lyn, and (laid fome- 
 time at my kind Friend Zacheus Collins's, 
 having met with fome difappointment in 
 travelling, which detained me fome weeks, 
 but I conftantly attended meetings at Lyn, 
 and found great opennefs and unity with 
 Friends there, and believe my flay tend- 
 ed to fome fervice, for the promoting of 
 near love among the little flock of Chrift 
 in that place, having many bleffed oppor- 
 tunities among them. I alfo went to the 
 Yearly-Meeting at Bofton, and back to 
 the Yearly-Meeting at Lyn ; which was 
 large and greatly favoured with the mini- 
 ftry and fervice of that worthy handmaid 
 of the Lord, Lydia Norton. After this, 
 and the Yearly-Meeting at Salem, I part- 
 ed with Friends in much love, and came 
 F 2 on 
 
C 26 ] 
 
 on my way homeward, vifiting the meet- 
 ings generally as they came in courfe, alfo 
 forne back places, and at Swanfey, Green- 
 wich, and feme other meetings, and to 
 Rhode-ifland ; tho' fomc of thefe meetings 
 "were hard and fuffering times, and tra- 
 velling wcarifome, I was favoured \v'ith a 
 fhare of peace in my own bofom. 
 
 After a little flay at Newport, and 
 fome folid times among Friends, I took 
 my leave and came to Kingftown meeting, 
 and then fet forward, pailing through Co- 
 neclicut with Jacob Barney, who came 
 with me as a guide, and was a good com- 
 panion j we reached Mamarineck, and 
 flaid a meeting, at which were two mar- 
 riages 'y from thence to Long-ifland, 
 where I made but a fhort ftay, crofTed at 
 the Narrows and Staten-ifland, and got to 
 Woodbridge meeting on the firft day of 
 the week, and the next day arrived at my 
 own habitation, in about one week from 
 Newport, and to my great fatisfaclion, 
 found my family well, through the good 
 providence of the Almighty. 
 
 After 
 
E =7 ] 
 
 After I came home I kept clofe to rhiiadci-^ 
 meetings, and faithfully laboured in that ^^'''* 
 ability God giveth ; being much concern- 
 ed for the profperity of his glorious work 
 amongft us ; my outward endeavours 
 were alfo bleffed, as I kept to induftry, and 
 I always found it beft to be diligent, and 
 not Ilothful in bufmefs ; yet fervent in fpi- 
 rit ferving the Lord ; and by living in 
 this city it was my lot often to vifit the 
 fick and thofe in affliclion in this place, 
 which were heart tenderinsf and humbling: 
 times, which ought not to be forgotten 
 by fuch who have been humbled under 
 the mighty hand of God, and whom he 
 has been pleafed to relieve ; but it is much 
 to be lamented, that too many when 
 raifed from adverfity, do forget in time of 
 profperity the dealings of the Almighty 
 w^ith them ; the world and the uncertain 
 things thereof, lead to forget what is cer- 
 tain to all men, that they mull die, and af- 
 ter death that they are accountable to the 
 Almighty Author of their being. 
 
 In the year 1737, being appointed with • 1737^ 
 feveral Friends of our Monthly-Meeting, 
 
 to 
 
I ^8 J 
 
 to vlfit the families of Friends in this city, 
 and having a concern on my mind for the 
 fervice, 1 went to many places with my 
 Uncle Chalkley, and other Friends, to 
 good fatisfaclion. For fome time I did not 
 go any very diftant journey, except once, 
 as far as Weft-river, in Maryland, to the 
 Yearly-Meeting, in company with my 
 Friend Robert Jordan ; but I diligently 
 attended meetings in this city, and fome- 
 times thofe near it, both in Pennfylvania 
 and New-Jerfey ; which I did in much 
 love, often chooling to go on foot, having 
 in my young years had many heavenly 
 feafons in that way of travelling. 
 
 1744. In the year 1744, it was on my mind 
 to vilit again Friends in New-England, 
 New-Eng- ^^^ having the unity of our Monthly- 
 Meeting, and my Friend Abel James for 
 a companion^ he being a young man I 
 much efteemed ; the latter end of the e- 
 leventh Month, we proceeded pretty di- 
 rect to Long-illand, where we vifited 
 moft of the meetings of Friends therea- 
 way, and the favourable prefence and 
 goodnefs of God being manifefted in them, 
 
 gave 
 
 His third 
 journey to 
 
C 29 3 
 
 gave me eafe of mind, and united my New-Eng- 
 heart to the faithful among them. When 
 clear there, we went on the Main, and tra- 
 velled to Newport, on Rhode-ifland, 
 where we were lovingly received among 
 Friends, and after a fliort ft ay, we pro- 
 ceeded to Dartmouth, and were at a meet- 
 ing there 5 and fo forward through Bof- 
 ton, Lyn, and Salem, having meetings, 
 infomeof which I had fatisfaction, and 
 was glad to fee Friends with whom I had 
 fome acquaintance in the beft fellowfhip. 
 The furtheft place we went to in this 
 journey was Salem ; and were at feveral 
 meetings on our return to Newport^ 
 which I hope tended to ftir up the pure 
 mind in fome -, altho' the life of religion 
 appeared to be at a low ebb' with many 
 making a high prof efiion thereof. After 
 feveral good opportunities among Friends 
 at Newport, we returned homewards 
 through Coneclicut, making a fliorc ftay 
 to reft at our Friend Thomas Franklin's, 
 from whence we went to a meeting at New- 
 town, on Long-ifland, then to New- York 
 in company with feveral Friends, where . 
 we had a meeting, then proceeded home, 
 
 where 
 
[ 3° ] 
 
 vhiiadd- where I was glad to fee my dear wife and 
 ^ '^' family again, it being through the kind*- 
 
 nefs of divine Providence, and they were 
 very near and dear to me. This journey 
 was attended with hard travel and hard 
 labour to my body, alfo in the exercife of 
 the gift of the miniftry ; but it was in good 
 will and much love to the people. 
 
 From the year 1745 to 1748, I kept 
 much at home at our own meetings ; yet 
 went fometimes to other meetings in 
 Pennfylvania and New-Jerfey, as in the 
 love of truth I was drawn forth to vifit 
 them 'y the Lord having a choice people in 
 thefe provinces who fear his name, and my 
 heart was often filled with endeared love 
 to the upright hearted feed of God, from 
 my firft acquaintance among them ; being 
 at times baptized and united together in 
 the one fpirit and fellowiliip, which is 
 not in the wifdom of man, but from the 
 power of God. 
 
 My dear wife being weakly in body, 
 and had been in a poor ftate of health for 
 fometime, departed this life in the fortieth 
 
 vear 
 
i: 31 ] 
 
 year of her age, on the firfl: day of ^he 
 lecond month, 1748, and I have good 
 reafon to beheve that flie is at reft, having 
 before her death, exprefled that fhc 
 had made her peace with the Lord, and 
 the evident tokens of his prefence in her 
 iicknefs, and at her latter end, muchfup- 
 ported my mind in fo great a trial, and 
 lofs of io good a v/ife and tender mother 
 to my children, and one that loved the 
 truth, and the fervants of Chrift, who 
 lived an innocent life, being a pattern of 
 plainnefs, a near companion, and true 
 help-mate tome according to her capacity, 
 both in things fpiritual and temporal. Af- 
 ter her death, in about a week, I buried 
 my youngeft fon, and four fons before 
 the death of their dear mother ; w^hich 
 were very near trials ; but my greatefl 
 help in thefe as well as many other 
 affliclions that have fallen to my lot, 
 has been to fubmit to the bleffed will 
 of the Lord, who gives and takes av/ay. 
 Now having two daughters left, I was 
 much concerned that the Almighty 
 might be pleafed to look in pity on • 
 them, as he did in mercy on me, 
 ^ in 
 
t 3'^ 3 
 
 VhWaU- in py young years, and give them wif- 
 ^''''''' dom and underflanding hearts to walk be* 
 
 fore him in his mofl: holy fear ; for I foon 
 found after the death of my loving v^dfe, 
 that I muft leave them for a time, and my 
 habitation and near comforts of life, for 
 the fake of Chrift and his bleffed gofpel, 
 a concern increaiing on my mind, not to 
 delay the time in which I was to perform 
 this errand, to go to iflands and places a- 
 broad; this weighty undertaking I 
 made known to my dear Friends, at our 
 Monthly-Meeting in this city, with which 
 they having unity, gave me a certificate 
 for this purpofe, in which they mention- 
 ed their prayers for my prefervation thro' 
 every trial and danger, which were ma- 
 ny before my return ; but the Almighty^ 
 All-powerful Being, delivered out of them 
 all ; glory, honour, and eternal praile 
 to his eminent name for ever ! but before 
 I left home, I accompanied fome Friends 
 to vifit feveral families in this city, which 
 were folid and comfortable feafons. 
 
 Hh 
 
L 33 ] 
 
 rag 
 
 His Voyage to Barbadoes, and Labours 
 there and at the adjacent I/Iands ; and Voy- 
 agefrom thence to Ireland. 
 
 AFTER I had fettled my out- 1784. 
 ward concerns, and had placed 
 my dear children to be taken 
 care of, until it pleafed God that we 
 lliould meet again, I left my habitation on 
 the 1 3th day of the fifth month, 1 748, af- 
 ter being on that day at a large meeting 
 in our city, with Samuel Nottingham, a 
 Friend from Northamptonfliire, in Old- 
 England, who was to be my companion. 
 We came with a great number of our very 
 loving Friends to Chefter, had a folid 
 meeting there that evening, lodged at 
 our worthy Friend Grace Lloyd's, and 
 next morning taking leave of our beloved 
 Friends, we went on board the veiTel and 
 fat fail for Barbadoes. On the pafTage I 
 met with near trials in fpirit, and was at 
 times almoft overwhelmed by deep conflicts 
 G 2 of 
 
[ 34 ] 
 
 ,,^g. of foul ; but thro' the kindnefs and mercy of 
 Earbadoes. God, wc arHved fafe at Barbadoes, on the 
 2ift day of the fixth month ; where we 
 met with feveral Friends who were kind 
 and loving towards us, our dear Friend 
 Jofeph Gamble took us to his houfe, 
 where we lodged for the moft part of the 
 time. After we had attended meetings at 
 Bridgetown, the Lord being with us, en- 
 abled us by his mighty power to bear a 
 faithful teftimony, I truft, to his eternal 
 Truth, we went to Speightftown, where 
 we were favoured with fome folid edifying 
 meetings, tho' not fo large as at Bridge- 
 town ; we lodged at our efteemed Friend 
 Edward Harrifon's ; we were alfo at the 
 Spring meeting-houfe, where we lodged, 
 a Friend living therein, and the next day 
 had a meeting there, and in the afternoon 
 at Bridgetown, which was large and end- 
 ed well. We were on this ifland twenty- 
 one days^ and having fcen Friends gene- 
 rally, and been favoured with ieveral edi- 
 fying feafons, we departed from thence 
 with Captain Auftin, to Antigua, in our 
 way to Tortola ; we ftaid one week and 
 a day at Antigua, lodged at James Bir- 
 
 ket's 
 
i: 35 ] 
 
 ket's, who was very kind to us; but 
 my mind was much burthened and dif- 
 trefTed for that place and people, v,'ho are 
 for the mod part a wicked and fmful ge- 
 neration ; we had no meeting among 
 them, there being no Friend on the ifland, 
 except Friend Birket, and' no opennefs, 
 that I could find to fatisfaclion, for the 
 teftimony of truth to be declared, only 
 we had fome folid converfation with fome. 
 I came away much bowed in fpirit for the 
 fins of the wicked in that ifland. From 
 thence we went for Tor tola, where we 
 landed on the 28th of the feventh month, 
 and met with feveral Friends in the even- 
 ing, that were glad to fee us, at the houfe 
 of our Friend John Pickering ; where, 
 and at our Friend William Thomas's, we 
 lodged mod of the time we were upon 
 that ifland, they being truly kind and 
 friendly to us ; we were favoured with 
 many good edifying meetings among 
 Friends, there being two meeting-houfes 
 on the ifland, viz. one at a place cafled 
 Fat-hog bay, the other at the Road ; we 
 attended both of them wdth diligence, 
 near the fpacc of fix wrecks, only that we 
 
 were 
 
[ 3^ ] 
 
 1748. were once at an ifland called Joes- Van- 
 Toitoia. dikes, where we had a large good meet- 
 
 ing. 
 
 O N the ninth day of the ninth month, 
 we left Tortola, in order to retm n to An- 
 tigua, with deiign to get a paffage for 
 England ; but being in a veiTel the cap- 
 tain of which knew not how to manage 
 her, we were going a contrary courfe, in 
 which if we had proceeded, we might all 
 have been loft ; we were much tofled and 
 driven about, and through perfuafions, 
 we prevailed with the captain to turn 
 back, and he brought us to Santa Croix; 
 but our going into the harbour called 
 JJme-trees to drop anchor, feemed as if it 
 would have proved fatal to us, there ly- 
 ing a velTel armed with guns, from which 
 we were fired at three times, and my com- 
 panion had like to have been £hot ; it 
 feems they had a deiign to have funk our 
 velTel, having heard there was a Spanifh 
 privateer on the coaft, and the Governor 
 had given orders to keep her off; they 
 fufpected our's to be that veiTel ; but our 
 mariners being in a great fright, made 
 
 Cgnak 
 
Croix, 
 
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 fignals that we had no ill defign ; when ,.48. 
 feeing we were in diftrefs, they forbore santa 
 firing, and through the kind deliverance 
 of the Almighty we got fafe in and dropt 
 anchor. Praifed and worfhipped be the 
 name of God, that was nigh at hand, and 
 a prefent help in the time of need ! may I 
 forever adore his great and eminent name, 
 with all the true in heart, throughout all 
 generations ! he will not fufFer thofe to 
 be confounded that truft in him, and who 
 delire and endeavour faithfully to ferve 
 him. A particular cafe concerning pri- 
 vateering, fometime before I left home, 
 now comes into my mind to mention. 
 Some great men of our city being concern^ 
 ed in fitting out vefTels for that wicked 
 bufinefs, which having brought a deep 
 engagement on my mind, it came upon 
 me as a weighty duty, to go to one of 
 thefe men, faithfully to warn him againfl 
 this unrighteous way of getting riches ; I 
 got a Friend to accompany me, and I 
 cleared my fpirit of a heavy burden ; he 
 pleaded for the practice, but ufed me civil- 
 ly. — A new veflel was fitted out fometime 
 after, called the Tartar, v/hich was much 
 
 talked 
 
C 38 ] 
 
 a 748. talked of to do great matters in privateer- 
 ing ; but, as I have been informed, flie 
 funk before flic got out to fea, and many 
 or mofl of the people on board were 
 drowned. I had peace of mind for hav- 
 ing difcharged my duty, altho' I much 
 lamented the unhappy circumftances of 
 thofe poor fellow -mortals, lofing their 
 lives in fuch an evil undertaking. 
 
 But to return to the place where we 
 came to an anchor — My companion w^ent 
 on fliore at Santa Croix, and would have 
 had me gone with him, but my mind be- 
 ing at that time much dejected, I chofe 
 to ftay on board the vcfTel until next morn- 
 ing, when I went on fliore, and met with 
 my companion, who had agreed with a 
 captain of a veflel, bound for Spanifli- 
 town, near Tortola, for our paflage thi- 
 ther, we put our chefi:s and other things 
 on board this veflel, then went on fliore, 
 and travelled acrofs the ifland on foot to 
 Bas-end harbour, where the veflel was to 
 go, choofing rather fo to do, than to go 
 round by water ; in our walk we met with 
 people that were kind to us j about noon 
 
 wc 
 
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 xve called at a houfe and dined, and were 1749. 
 entertained in a friendly manner ; taking 
 leave here, we went on towards Bas-cnd, 
 Hopping at another houfe fome diftance 
 from the town for a drink of water, the 
 people feeing we were Grangers, and being 
 acquainted with Friends, kindly invited 
 us in, to ftay with them until thevef- 
 fel came round to the harbour, and in- 
 formed us that there was no houfe in the 
 town fuitable for us to be at, which I found 
 afterwards was true, for they feemed to 
 be a very v/icked people. We ftaid with 
 thefe kind people tv/o nights and part of 
 two days, and on leaving them we Vv^ould 
 have fatisfied them for the time we were 
 there ; but they v/ould not take any thinj^ 
 for our entertainment, and feemed well 
 pleafed with our company 9 the man of the 
 houfe attended us to the water fide to fee 
 us embark on board the vefTel we had been 
 waiting for, v^here he parted with us in 
 a friendly manner : I waited a v/hile 011 
 the fhore for the Captain to go on board, * 
 there being a vendue, and a great number 
 of people gathered to it, among them the 
 Governor of the phce, (being an iiland 
 II ^ fubjecT: 
 
[ 40 ] 
 
 i74«. fubjecl to the king of Denmark) and I 
 havefmce thought, had we ufed endea- 
 vours, we might have had a meeting a- 
 cioii. niong them, and I have wiilied it had hap- 
 pened fo. for 1 have at times been deiirous 
 in a folemn manner for the welfare of that 
 people ; it is a fruitful iiland, and as good 
 land I think as any I faw in all my travels, 
 could it be inhabited by men of religious 
 minds, fo as to be fruitful to the heaven- 
 ly Father, who is willing to do good to 
 mankind in general ; but oh ! the illands 
 hereaway, how great and many are the 
 iins of the people, mournful hath been my 
 foul for their many abominations ! 
 
 Tortola. • W E fat fail, and arrived at Tortola on 
 the 15th of the ninth month. The Cap- 
 tain and failors were a wicked company, 
 took fome of our things from us, and de- 
 manded confiderable more for our paffage 
 than we had agreed for, which we thought 
 unreafonable ; but they faid we could af- 
 ford to pay, for that we were always go- 
 ing about ; we told them we had the more 
 need to be faving of what w^e had ; they 
 ' hoiilcd out the boat in an angry manner, 
 
 and 
 
C 41 J 
 
 and we paid them more than our pafTage 17.^9. 
 to put us on ihore ; they firfl took us fome 
 diflance from any houfe, and then landed 
 us, which put us to the more difficulty 
 what to do with our chefts, and other ne- 
 cefTaries, that they might be fafe ; but 
 being feen by one Ifaac Pickering (a kinf- 
 man to our Friend John Pickering) he Tortoia. 
 fent his lad to afk us to his houfe, w^here 
 we went, and he was fo kind as to fend 
 for our things, and took care of .them, 
 and lent us horfes to go to his uncle's that 
 night, where we were kindly received, 
 and tenderly fympathized with on the 
 difappointment and trouble, we had 
 met with ; they were dear and afFeclionate 
 Friends to us on this ifland. We were at 
 a meeting at Fat-hog bay, the 1 6th of the 
 ninth month, and on the fourth day fol- 
 lowing, I was at one at the Road, both of 
 them were good meetings. On the 23d 
 of the month, I was taken ill of a fever at 
 the houfe of our Friend Thomas Hum- 
 phreys, and the next day my kind Friend 
 John Pickering brought a man and horfe 
 and took me to his houfe, where I remain- ' 
 ed very ill feveral weeks, and fome of ' 
 H 2 the 
 
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C 42 ] 
 
 ,743, the time I apprehended I fliould lay- 
 down my Hfe among them ; but it was the 
 bleffed will of the Lord to reftore me again 
 to fom.e degree of ftrength, and I attended 
 feveral meetings with Friends, wherein I 
 had fatisfa<ftion5 and on the 8th day of the 
 eleventh month, I went to Gwan ifland, 
 with our Friends James Parke and his 
 wife, and ftaid till the eleventh of the 
 fame, and after having a comfortable 
 time in his family, I returned to Tortola, 
 it being the meeting day at Fat-hog bay, 
 and it proved to be a meeting to fatisfac- 
 tion. 
 
 A F T E R a folid fitting and parting with 
 feveral at our Friend John Pickering's, on 
 the 2 ill of this month, we went on board 
 a veflel bound to the ifland called St. Tho- 
 Thomas's m^s's (belonging to the Dutch) accompa- 
 nied by our faid dear Friend, and Thomas 
 Humphreys, Jonas Lake, and Jofeph 
 Piyan, and on the 2 2d landed there, and 
 tmderftood that the Captain of the fliip, 
 bound for Amflerdam, in which we were 
 to take ourpallage, in order to get to Eng- 
 land, was very ill. We lodged at John 
 
 Dcmane's 
 
C 43 ] 
 
 Demane's one night, and the next day 1748. 
 went on board the veflel, where we ftaid 
 moftly till the laft day of the month, and 
 our dear Friends above-mentioned, after 
 feeing us placed in the fhip, parted 
 with us in a tender, loving manner, and 
 my heart was afFecled in parting with 
 them : In the time we lay at anchor, the 
 Captain died, and the chief mate, Robert 
 Stewart, was appointed Captain in his 
 Head, who was very kind to us in the ma- 
 ny diftrefles we met with on our paiTage. 
 
 Some days before we failed, my com- 
 panion was taken iick, which fo increafed, 
 that on the paiTage he feemed near unto 
 death, which was a great trial and exer- 
 cife to me, being myfelf weakly and fee- 
 ble, for we were companions in tribulati- 
 on ; but thro' the mercy of the Almigh- 
 ty, he recovered. 
 
 A F T E R we had been three weeks and At fca. 
 fome days at fea, a great ilorm arofe, which 
 appeared to be very dangerous, that in 
 order to lighten the veffel, the feamen ' 
 threw out feveral weighty things ; after 
 
 fome 
 
X?48. 
 
 [ 44 ] 
 fome weeks we got into foundings in the 
 Englilli channel, and were in hopes to be 
 foon faf e landed at fome port in England ; 
 but another ftorm arofe, which drove us 
 off to fea, yet in eight days we again got 
 foundings, but the wind being againft us, 
 we could not get forward to our expecta- 
 tion, and it rather fuiting us to go to Ire- 
 land, the Captain altered his courfe for 
 Kinfale harbour, as the veffel wanted re- 
 pairs one of the Rudder-irons being broke, 
 made it difficult to fleer the veffel, but by 
 endeavours, they managed pretty well, 
 and the day we made fail for that land, we 
 got in fight of the harbour, but night 
 coming on, and being fearful of rocks 
 and flioals, they put off to fea, and the 
 weather being moderate the fore part of 
 the night, the feamen were too carelefs 
 and did not keep foflricl a watch as they 
 ought ; but the Captain, as he lay in his 
 cabbin had fo great an uneafinefs on his 
 mind, that he could not lay flill any long- 
 er, and went towards the head of the vef- 
 fel, and found that inftead of being out at 
 fea, we were near flriking on the land, 
 whereupon he immediately awaked the 
 
 failors 
 
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 failors, and they tacked the veflel about, 1743. 
 and were very watchful until the morn- 
 ing, thus we efcaped that danger ; in the in a ftorm 
 
 the 
 
 land. 
 
 morning it was very foggy, andaitorma- coaa'ofiie- 
 rofe, and we could not difcover the har 
 bour, but were driven about for a conii- 
 derable time, they threw over board one 
 anchor ; but the ftorm continuihg and 
 the weather diftreiling, we were drove to- 
 wards the land, and the feamen being al- 
 moft wearied out, apprehended we could 
 not keep off much longer ; thus we were 
 in greac diflrefs, expelling the veiTei 
 would be wrecked, and the Captain being 
 much furprifed, came to my companion 
 and me, telling us he would do what he 
 could.to fave our lives, for that we were 
 in great danger of being loft, and he ex- 
 pected we fhould be drove on the fhore in " 
 the nigKt, if we kept off in the day, and 
 vv/as deilrous to know our minds, what he* 
 had beft to do ; whether to run the fhip 
 aground while we had day Hght, that if a- 
 ny of our lives were fpared, we could the 
 better fee how to help ourfelves 5 we not 
 knowing what to advile him for the 
 beft, only to truftin the good providence 
 
 of 
 
C a6 ] 
 
 ,74P. of God, the Captain concluded to fletr 
 towards the land ; the cries and lamenta- 
 tions of the people were great for mercy 
 to their fouls, apprehending the veflel 
 might be foon dafhed to pieces, and we 
 might fuddenly lofe our lives ; but I had 
 reafon to believe that the Gracious and 
 Merciful Being was pleafed to hear our 
 cries, for the nearer we came to the land 
 the fog cleared away, and they efpied a 
 veffel, which as we approached nearer, we 
 difcovered was laying at anchor at the 
 mouth of Kinfale harbour, where we 
 wanted to be, and as we came on our way. 
 Arrives fafe the liarbour appeared plain ; thus through 
 hlrtoilr! ^ the great deliverance of the Almighty, we 
 arrived there fafe, and dropt anchor ; for 
 this his merciful prefervation, cur hearts 
 had great caufe to be humbly bowed before 
 him, and the Captain came to me, fay- 
 ing, " Nozu if you have it i?2 your heart to 
 '' return God thanks^ I will join ivith you on 
 " my bare knees " and " if it had not been 
 *' y^r your prayers^ we fJjould all have been 
 *' lofl ;" but I afcribed this great deliver- 
 ance to the kind mercy of Divine Provi- 
 dence to US all j altho' I can trul)^ fay, my 
 
 foul 
 
[ 47 ] 
 
 Toiil was earned in fupplication before die X749. 
 Lord at times on this trying pafiage, and 
 at one particular feafon, as I lay in my 
 cabbin, not knowing but that Vv^e might be 
 fwallowed up in the mighty ocean, the 
 fpirit of prayer came on me, and I v.as 
 raifed on my knees to make interceiHoa 
 with the All-powerful Being, after which 
 I went upon the deck, and the Captaiii 
 feeing me, expreffed in a very loving 
 manner his unity and fatisfa6lion, and I 
 thought that the fame good power and 
 prefence which attended my mind, had 
 fome reach upon his heart. 
 
 Oh! in this trying paiTage, how often 
 "did my foul go down into many difcou- 
 ragements, but I was helped through all, 
 to rely on God's mercy, and on a time I 
 took the blefled Bible into my hands, and 
 it was as if my eyes were call on that paf- 
 fage in the prophet Ifaiah, xliv. i, 3, 2. 
 where it is laid ; " Nc^ju hear^ Jacob my 
 ^'' fervant^ and Ifrael ivbom I have cbofen : 
 " Thus faith the Lord that made thce^ and 
 *' fermed thee from, the womb^ which will help 
 ^^ thee ; Fear ?ict, O Jacob ?}iy fervant., and 
 I " thou^ 
 
L 48 ] 
 
 '* thou^ Jefurun^ whom I have chofen ; For 
 " / will pour water upon htm that is thirjl% 
 *' and floods upon the dry ground : I will pour 
 *' myfpirit upon thy feed ^ and my hleffing upon 
 " thine offspring^* This gracious blefling 
 of the Lord to his fervants and chofen 
 ones, was a comfort to me, and in his 
 great condefceniion he fulfilled his pro- 
 mife to help in the needful time* 
 
 tanding 
 
C 49 ] 
 
 Landing at Kinfale in Ireland ; — His Travels 
 and Labours in that Ki?7gdom ; alfo in Eng- 
 land and Scotland, to the Time of return- 
 ing Home, 
 
 IT was on the 24th day of the ^rft 
 month, 1749, in the evening, that 
 we came to an anchor, in this lafe 
 harbour of Kinfale — when the oilicers and 
 people from the town, came on board to 
 fee what we had in our veffel, fome of 
 whom ftaid all night, and my companion 
 and I were confined to the hearing of their 
 noify converfation, until the next morn- 
 ing, fo that we g'ot but little reft, and 
 had very little for feveral nights and days 
 before ; the Captain being gone on fhore, 
 returned the next day, and a civil man 
 with him, who mentioned the names of 
 feveral Friends that had vifited that town, 
 fome of whom had come from America, 
 which Vv^as pleaiing to nie to hear of ; they 
 having left their home a little before me, ' 
 and had been travelling in the fervice of 
 I 2 truth* 
 
 1749. 
 
 Ireland. 
 
r 50 J 
 
 tj^^^. truth. When this friendly man rctnrnecf 
 on fhore, we went with him to his houfe, 
 being an inn j where we were civilly en- 
 tertained, he took care of our chefts and 
 cloathing, and provided us with horfes, 
 and a guid to conduct us to Cork, being 
 i^bout ten miles ; when we got there, be- 
 ing ftrangers, we were at a lofs to find our 
 Friends ; we alighted at a public-houfe, 
 and went in and got fome refreihment ; 
 my companion inquired of a man in the 
 houfe after our Friends in the town, who 
 anfwered, that there were a great many of 
 the brethren lived there ; he was defired 
 to go to one of them, and inform him that 
 we wanted to fpeak with him ; in a fliort 
 time he brought one of our Friends, nam- 
 ed Richard Allen, at the fight of whom I 
 \Tas well pleafed, and he lovingly took us 
 to his houfe, where foon after came A- 
 traham Fuller, and another Friend, w^ho 
 alked for our certificates, which they 
 read and were fatisfied ; our Friend A-r 
 braham Fuller inviting us to his houfe, we 
 went with him, #nd made it our home, 
 while I flaid in Cork ; w^e were favoured 
 that evening with the company of feveral 
 
 Friends^ 
 
[ SI ] 
 
 Friends, which I cfleemed a great mercy 
 from the Lord, that after being delivered 
 from fo many imminent dangers, we 
 could be with fo kind a people as they 
 were to us ; the next day being the firfl 
 of the week, I was at two meetings with 
 Friends in that city, and my companion 
 at one of them, which I hope will be re- 
 membered by both of us. 
 
 Being brought unexpectedly and pro- 
 videntially to this land, I much defired 
 that I might proceed aright in the courfe 
 of rny religious fervice, for when on our 
 paflage, I expeclcd to land in England, 
 and meeting with many trials of my faith, 
 and deep fufferings in the Weft-India if- 
 lands, as alfo at fea, I was ready to fear 
 whether my prefent undertaking was from 
 a right motion, or required of me to en- 
 gage in, thinking that if I got fafe to 
 England, and faw fome Friends there, 
 and could meet with an opportunity to 
 return home, whether I had not beft fo 
 to do, not knowing that my lot would be 
 caft in Ireland ; but Divine Wifdom or- 
 dering every thing that is ccnlillent with 
 
 Ilia 
 
 x7+«^ 
 
 At Cork. 
 
«74P' 
 
 i: 52 ] 
 
 his Will for the beft, I was made willing 
 to vifit Friends of this nation, and from 
 Cork, I went to Bandon with my compa- 
 nion, where we had a large comfortable 
 meeting, being many people there be- 
 fides thofe of our religious fociety ; then 
 returned to Cork, w^here I ftaid feveral 
 meetings ; leaving my companion in this 
 city, he being deiirous to go home from 
 thence, I proceeded on my journeys, iirfl 
 went to Youghall, and was favoured 
 with a good meeting, after that to Kill- 
 common, and had a meeting ; from thence 
 toCafliall meeting, which was pretty large, 
 and I hope to fatisfacftion ; I lodged at 
 Solomon V/atfon's, who accompanied me 
 to Clonmel, where I was at two meetings, 
 which I hope were of fome fervice to ftir 
 up the pure mind in thofe who attended 
 them ; from this place travelling twenty 
 miles, in a great deal of rain, I reached Wa- 
 Watcrfoid. ^gj-ford, w^hcremy kiudFrieudslfaac Jacobs 
 and his wife, received me in a loving, ten- 
 der manner, which was a comfort to me 
 at that time, fori had been travelling in the 
 deeps both inwardly and outw^ardly, be- 
 ing alone as to an outward com.panion, 
 
 (except 
 
I 53 3 
 
 (except the perfon whq^was my guide) jy^j^, 
 looking upon myfelf as a pilgrim and 
 ftrangerin a flrangeland ; but the Almigh- 
 ty helped me, praifed be his worthy name; 
 •we had a good meeting at Waterford, 
 from thence I went to Rofs, at which meet- Rofs, 
 ingthe wicked were warned of their wick- 
 ednefs ; the next day I had a meeting at 
 Lambftown, in which I was favoured with 
 my good mafter's prefence, and it was to 
 edification and comfort ; from this place 
 I went to Wexford, where the meeting ^^- , 
 ended to fatisfadion ; from thence to Jo- 
 feph Williams's and lodged, and to the 
 meeting at Cooladine, and in the evening cooiadinc, 
 had a meeting at the widow Stephens's 
 both of them being comfortable feafons : 
 I then went to John Wright's, and Henry 
 Herrit's, and to Billicane, having meet- 
 ings to good fatisfaclion ; after which in 
 company with feveral Friends, I went to 
 Dublin, and attended the Half- Year's ^ ^„ 
 
 ^ ^ DubliB, 
 
 meeting, which was large, being there ma- 
 ny choice Friends, whom I was glad to 
 fee, and the good prefence and kindnefs, 
 of our dear Lord being witneffed and en- 
 joyed, both in the meetings for worfliip, 
 
 and 
 
t 54 ] 
 
 ,^^p. and the difciplin% made it a comfortable 
 time tome, not having ieen fuch a meet- 
 ing iince I left my native land, and the 
 kindnefs and iriendihip that appeared a- 
 mong Friends at this meeting I have of- 
 ten remembred vv^ith comfort of mind, 
 and the near unity I felt in my heart to a 
 remnant among them, tended to the re- 
 newing of my ftrength and willingnefs to 
 vifit Friends generally in that nation ; and 
 my journey being laid out by Friends, that 
 I might proceed for the beft, in refpecl to 
 travelling, I went from my kind land- 
 lord's, Peter Judd, feveral miles to a 
 meeting, and to Killconnor, and was at 
 a meeting there, which altho* they were! 
 hard faffering times, I hope wereoffome 
 fervice to the foiid minded ; 1 had here a 
 tendering time in the family of Samuel 
 Watfon, his dear wife having vifited A- 
 merica, I had feen her in my native land ; 
 llie was a worthy and ferviceable inftru- 
 ment in the Lord's hand to many I believe 
 where her lot was cafl ; from hence I went 
 to Cariow, where the meeting was to me 
 laborious; then to John Lakes, Balitore, 
 Athlone, andMountmelick, fome of which 
 
 meetings 
 
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 meeting? were comfortable fatisfaclory 174?, 
 feafons ; at Mountmclick, I lodged at 
 Jofhua Strangman's, with whom I had 
 great nearnefs in fpint, and thought hini 
 to be a hopeful young man in the way of 
 truth, and my foul pofTefTed fweet peace 
 under his roof; from hence T went to 
 Baliinakill, Mountrath, Munderhead, and 
 Rofegay, and had meetings, fome of 
 them being large and edifying feafons, 
 gave relief to the deep travel of my foul 
 among them, the bleffed power of Truth, 
 which is the crown cf our religious meet- 
 ings, tenderly afFeccing our hearts before 
 the Lord ; I then went to Limerick, and 
 was at their meeting^ in the morning: and 
 afternoon, to fatisfaclion ; from thence 
 to Jonathan Barnes, and was at a meeting 
 at Killcommon-moor, the fore part of 
 which was to me a time of great leannefs 
 and poverty of fpirit, but before it ended, 
 was I believe a time of tender vifitation to 
 the people ; and I was enabled through 
 Divine Help, to declare the word of life 
 among them; from thence I went to Burr, 
 and was at a folid broken meeting, which * 
 was a comfortable feafon ; then to Wil- 
 K liana 
 
i745. 
 
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 liara LltfaH's, and Ballymorin, and liad 
 meetings ; fo returned to Atlilonc, called 
 the center of Ireland, and lodged at Wil- 
 liam Sproui's, an anticnt loving Friend, 
 who not only appeared to be, but I believe 
 really was an example in the way of truth 
 in that place, and had a lafiing remem- 
 brance in my mind ; from thence I went 
 to the Moat, and Old Caftle, at the lafl 
 place there came to the meeting a prieft, 
 and a pretty many people, who behaved 
 foberiy, and I hope it was a good meet- 
 ing ; the next meeting was Ballahays, 
 which v.-as fmall, and the comers to it 
 feemed to be but indifTerent profefTors of 
 the truth, v/hich was caufe of forrow to 
 my heart ; but having cleared my felf, I 
 proceeded to Coothill, and had a meeting 
 to which feveral cam^e, and behaved fober- 
 iy ; the next v/as Caihelmane, v/hich Vv'as 
 to fatisfaclion and comfort ; from thence 
 to Charlemont, which was a large m^eeting, 
 and I had hard labour to difcharge my 
 duty among themi ; here came a man and 
 woman, Vvho had been troublefome to 
 Friends, in offering thier intentions of mar- 
 riage, who could not have unity with 
 
 their 
 
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 their proceedings, he not being a member 174^. 
 of our religious fociety, and a diforderly 
 perfon, but at the conclufion of the 
 meeting, they took each other as man and 
 wife, which impolition occalioned the 
 meeting to break up in diibrder ; from 
 hence I went to Ballyhagan, which was a 
 a large and edifying meeting, and fo to 
 Colerain, Bally nacre, the Grange, and ■ 
 Antrim, and had meetings, which w^ere 
 moftly hard fuffering times, and the com- 
 ers to thofe meetings, I w\as afraid were 
 feveral of them, but lifelefs profeffors of re- 
 ligion : I had the next meeting at Hilf- 
 borough, at which were many Friends, 
 and it tended to fatisfaciion ; that fam.e 
 day I had a good meeting at LifDurn, from 
 thence I paffed through B elf ail to New- Bdfaft. 
 town, where came fome who behaved 
 rudely, and the meeting was not fo w^ell 
 as could be deiired ; the next was Ballene- 
 derry, w^hich was very large, and the 
 Lord's good prefence being with us, the 
 hearts of the faithful for his many mercies 
 had caufe to give thankfgivings and 
 praifes to his mofl: worthy name; after, 
 this meeting I had a near parting time at 
 K 2 John 
 
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 ,749. John Murrows, with many dear Friends, 
 v/ho came to take their leave of me ; from 
 thence I went to MonalHn ^nd Lurgan, 
 iind had meetings, and to that at the lail 
 place came many perfons of great note, 
 and behaved extraordinary fober, and we 
 were favoured v/ith a good meeting ; the 
 next was at Rafer-illand, to which 
 iilfo came fome not of our fociety, who 
 confeiTed to the truth of what i . "" ♦:o de- 
 clare among them, and parted with me in 
 love.— I went feveral miles that afternoon, 
 and lod2:edat Dundalk at an inn ; the next 
 day and part of the night I travelled forty- 
 miles, fome of the way in a great deal of 
 pain, and in a wet tired condition, to 
 Edenderry where I v.as received at John 
 Pirn's, in a loving, kind manner ; I at- 
 tended their meetings on theiirftday in the 
 forenoon and afternoon, which Vv ere large 
 and 1 hope in the main, good meetings, 
 the next were at llathangen, and Tima- 
 hoe, which werecom.fortable ; from thence 
 Dublin. I went to Dublin, and lodged at my dear 
 Friend Peter Judd's, and was in and a- 
 bout Dublin nine days, and at feveral good 
 living meetings anicng Friends in that ci- 
 ty > 
 
[ 59 ] 
 
 ty ; and there being a remnant of dear 174^ 
 Friends in fomc part of that nation, I had 
 comfort of mind, in going to fee and viiit 
 them in the love of God ; and it being his 
 blefl'ed will to caft my lot in that part of 
 the world, 1 faithfully laboured to dif- 
 charge my duty in his fear, both to Friends 
 and other people, that had freedom to come 
 to our religious meetings, and feveral ap- 
 peared to be reached by the power of truth, 
 who did not make profeflion among us. 
 
 On the 29th of the fourth month: I Ej^,|^^j.ks 
 embarked for England, accompanied by f^r t^ng- 
 feveral Friends on board the vefrel5where we 
 parted in tender love, and on the firfl day 
 of the fifth month, I landed at Whiteha- Arrives at 
 ven, altogether a flranger, and no out- '"'^'■'^*^ 
 ward companion, which to me was lonely 
 in a flrange land ; but the Almighty was 
 in his mercy and goodnefs near to me, to 
 be my comforter, and I had great caufe to 
 bow with a bended heart in deep thank- 
 fulnefs before him, for his wonderful 
 providence and many helps and deliver- 
 ances : I enquired the way to Daniel Ste- 
 phenfon's, by whom 1 ^^'as lovingly re- 
 ceived 
 
 \en. 
 
1749' ceived, and kindly entertained ; the next 
 At White- day being the firfl day of the week, I was 
 at two meetings with Friends at White- 
 haven, which I have often remembered. 
 My way being laid out to vifit Friends in 
 Cumberland, I went forward the 3d of 
 the fifth month, on my way to Cocker- 
 mouth, and in travelling on the road my 
 mind was much thoughtful, not know- 
 ing that I fhould meet with any one to be 
 a comfort to me, when not far from the 
 town to which I was going, I met with two 
 Friends, at firft fight I did not know either 
 of them, but one of them fpeaking to me, 
 I found it to be Chriflopher Wilfon, at 
 •which my heart was much rejoiced, he 
 being a Friend who had travelled among 
 "US, in the work of the miniftry in America, 
 and I had feen in Philadelphia ; the meet- 
 ing to v/hich I intended, not being to be 
 held till the next day, I turned back with 
 him to his houfe ; where we had near con- 
 verfation together in the Jove of truth j 
 the next day he accompanied me to the 
 meeting appointed, which was a folid 
 time ; the day following I v/ent to Jzel, 
 and had a meeting with the few Friends 
 
 therCj 
 
[ 6i ] 
 
 there, and altho' fmall it was a folid meet- 174^ 
 ing ; after that, I was at Pardfaw-hall, 
 which was a Sfood meetinc:, £0 to BrouQ:h- 
 ton, and had comfort of mind among 
 Fri|:nds thereaway. I then returned to 
 Pardfaw-hall again, and on the lirft day of 
 the week the meeting was very large, and 
 the good prefence of God attending the 
 fame, made it an humbling comifortable 
 feafon ; the fame day I was at a large meet- 
 ing, near Chriftopher Wilfon's, which 
 ended well ; from thence was at Kefwick, 
 tho' fmall a good meeting, fo to Mofdale 
 and had a large fatisfacliory meeting, alfo 
 at Colbeck, Bolton, and Wigtcn, fome of 
 which v/ere large, and I hope tended to 
 edification and comfort ; from thence I 
 went to Allanby, and Holm, and had 
 large m.eetings, in which the power of 
 truth prevailed in a good degree, the next 
 was at Kirkbride, in which I had hard 
 fervice, and a clofe teftimony to the un- 
 concerned in the way of truth, which I 
 left to their conlideration ; from thence I 
 went to Jonathan Adcll's, who and his 
 wife were choice antient Friends, my * 
 fcay at their houfe, and being with fuch 
 
 dear 
 
[ 6i ] 
 
 I74P. dear Friends, afforded me at that time re- 
 newed comfort of mind ; for altho' the 
 Lord was gracious in fome places power- 
 fully to afliil: my poor fpirit to difcharge 
 my duty, yet at timics I met Vvith cjpfe 
 fufFerings and bemoanings, for the arifmg 
 of the Divine Spring of life, both in my- 
 felf and others ; I went to Carlifle from 
 thence, and fo back to Moor-houfe meet- 
 ing, then to Scotby, Kiiklington, and a 
 meeting that John Irwen and his wife be- 
 longed to, who were bothantient Friends, 
 and 1 believe had been of fervice in the 
 work of the miniftry ; and altho' fome of 
 thofe meetings w-ere trying times, and 
 attended with hard labour, I truft that I 
 was clear in the fight of God in endea- 
 vouring to be faithful to what I appre- 
 hended to be my duty. 
 
 Northiim- From Cumberland, I went into Nor- 
 thumberland, and the firitmeetmg I was 
 at, was Cuthbert Wigham's, where was 
 a confiderable number of newly convin- 
 ced Friends, which was a comfortable and 
 contrited meeting before the Lord ; from 
 thence I w^ent to Weft- AUandale, to a large 
 
 meeting, 
 
[ ^3 ] 
 meeting, which was pov/erfully reached 174^. 
 with the fenfe of the love of God ; the 
 next meeting was at AlRon-moor, which 
 tho' not very large, Ihope might tend to 
 the benefit of fome ; then Penrith, Terril, 
 and Strickland meetings, fome of which 
 were to fatisfaction, and I met with a kind 
 reception, and had near unity wit;hmany 
 dear Friends in divers places. 
 
 From Strickland, I went to Kendal, 
 in Weflmoreland, to my dear Friend We«- 
 John Crowdfon's, where I ftaid fome days 
 and refted as to travelling ; but attended 
 pretty many meetings in Kendal, to which 
 belonged many worthy Friends, who were 
 extraordinary kind and friendly, which 
 I efteemed a favour, yet at that time, I 
 was in a very low lituation of mind, much 
 overwhelmed with many inward forrows, 
 and conflicts of foul ; but was intent to do 
 the bed I could to get through what might 
 fall to my lot at fo great a diftance from 
 my outward habitation, truRing in the 
 Almighty hand of the Lord, who alone 
 knew my diilrelTed condition, a ad to - 
 whom I put forth my cries and fecret ad- 
 L dreiTes 
 
[ ^4 1 
 
 f 74!>. dreffes for relief ; dominion and everlafting 
 fraife be rendered to him for evermore ! in 
 the courfe of what he was pleafcd to lay 
 upon my mind to fay in meetings by way 
 of teilimony, he was alfo pleafed to be 
 gracious in appearing to open my way in 
 the caufe I had at heart, w^hich was the 
 promotion of welldoing, and the good of 
 mankind here and hereafter ; at this 
 place meetings were large, and I hope 
 blefled with the notice of heaven ; to this 
 Kcndak meeting belonged Margaret Coupland, 
 who had viiited our parts, was an exem- 
 plary folid Friend, and retained the lively 
 fenle of truth ; while I was here, I receiv- 
 ed a letter from my kind Friend Ifrael 
 Pemberton the younger, giving me fome 
 account of my dear children and Friends 
 at home, which was very acceptable to 
 me ; this dear Friend's worthy father be- 
 ing a bright pattern and elder in the church 
 of Chrift, given to hofpitality and good 
 ■works, the near unity I had with him in 
 fpirit gave me much comfort and fatisfac- 
 tion of mind, as he was brought frequent- 
 ly to my remembrance in this journey. 
 On account of my children, 1 had been 
 
 oftea 
 
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 often concerned, and dropped many tears 174^. 
 foj their cvcrlading welfare, the)'- being 
 very near to my life ; Oh how I much de- 
 fired th^t they might choole the Lord for 
 their portion, and the God of Jacob, hisblef- 
 iing for the lot of their inheritance ! then 
 Itrufted that he would be pieafed to be a 
 fure Friend to them as they kept in his 
 holy fear and council. 
 
 From Kendal I went to Grayrig, which 
 was a folid tender broken meeting, alfo to 
 Preilon Patrick, Winderm.ere, and Hawk- 
 lide, which meetings v/ere to fatisfaclion, 
 and ended well ; from thence to Hight 
 meeting, in Lancafhire, which afforded 
 fome comfort to my mJnd, the next was 
 at Swarth-moor-hall, w^here Geors^e Fox ^ 
 belonged in his time, which was a large 
 and a good meeting, from thence I went 
 to Lancafter, and was at two meetings on 
 the firfl day of the w^eek, which were 
 large and comfortable, here lived Lydia 
 Lancafler, and Elizabeth Rawlinfon, both 
 \vorthy Friends who had vifited America, 
 and in one of thole meetings, they both . 
 appeared in a living teiliraony for the 
 L 2 Lord 
 
I 66 2 
 
 i74P. Lord in their advanced age, and it did 
 me good to perceive that they were alive 
 in the root of hfe ; at this meeting was 
 William Thomas, a miniftring Friend 
 from Tortola, lately landed ; I went that 
 day home with William Backhonfe, a 
 Friend who had vifited America in the 
 work of the miniilry, he received me ve- 
 ry kindly and lovingly in his houfe ; the 
 next day I was at Ycllan meeting, which 
 was to fatisfaflion ; then to Bentham, 
 which was a large meeting, and attended 
 with the foiid power of truth, from thence 
 to Dent, in Vv^hich meeting the fpring of 
 life was opened among us, to the comfort 
 of the fincere in heart, to this meeting 
 belonged John Burton, who had vifited 
 our parts, a dear Friend I was glad to fee, 
 having fcen him in my native land ; the 
 next meetings were Brigflats, and Raven- 
 itondale, which I hope tended to edifica- 
 tion ; to the laft belonged Alice Alderfon, 
 a worthy inftrument, who had travelled 
 in America on the Lord's errand, and was 
 truly acceptable in her religious vifit ; 
 from thence I went to Grifedale, and was 
 at a large living meeting, the next was at 
 
 Counterfet, 
 
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 Gounterfet, which was large and folid ; ,j^g, 
 from thence I went to Swale-dale, Auf- 
 garth, Richmond, and another meeting in 
 my way to Ilaby, fome of which meetings 
 were fatisfadlory folid feafons ; at Ilaby, I 
 met with feveral worthy Friends, who I 
 found in converfation to be true help- 
 mates to me, particularly James Wilfon 
 and Jofeph Taylor ; I had feen Jofeph in 
 Philadelphia, when on his religious vifit 
 to our country, and it was a pleafure and 
 comfort now to fee him in his own habita- 
 tion ; from this place, I went to Biihop- 
 Auckland5Durham,Benfieldfide,andNew- i^^A^t^ 
 
 county. 
 
 Caftle upon Tyne, which meetings were 
 moflly hard laborious times to my baptiz- 
 ed fpirit J then to Shields, Sunderland, 
 Shotton, and Darlington, the opportuni- 
 ties with Friends therea\vay, being moft- 
 ly comfortable ; after thefe meetings I 
 went to Stockton, Gifborough, Yalton, 
 and Caftletown, where I had meetings, 
 fom.e of which were to fatisfadlion ; after 
 this I went to that dear antient Friend, 
 John Richardfon's, he had been twice to 
 America on religious vifits, and had taken 
 much pains in his day and time, f§r the 
 
 fpr^ading 
 
C 68 ] 
 
 ):74<?. fpreading and promoting the gofpel of 
 peace and falvation in the earth, and al- 
 tho' he was antient and feeble in body, he 
 was frefli and green in the hfe of religion, 
 and my heart was refrelhed, in the unity 
 and fellowfliip of Divine life, in being in 
 his company ; I lodged here, and the 
 next day went to the meeting at Kirby- 
 moor-lide, to which he belonged, which 
 was a folid good meeting, from hence to 
 Ampwelford, Rilfdale, Thirfk and Kirby, 
 fome of which were weighty foHd meet- 
 ings, and the humble in heart were con- 
 trited therein ; then to the Quarterly- 
 Xorkfliire. Meeting at York, which held feveral days 
 for worihip and the difcipline of the 
 church, was very large and attended by 
 many folid Friends from their particular 
 meetings, near unity and gofpel feilow- 
 Ihip being in a good degree manifefted, 
 this opportunity begat an agreeable 
 acquaintance with many Friends whom I 
 afterwards found to be very friendly and 
 kind to me, as I went forward on my jour- 
 ney. From this city I went to Thornton, 
 Molton, Pickering, Witby, Stanton, 
 Scarliproughj and was at meetings, feveral 
 
 ■ of 
 
[ <?9 1 
 of them being large, and edifying; — I 
 was next at Bridlington, to which meet- 
 ing came a pretty many people, but it 
 was a time of hard labour, this meeting 
 being declined from what it had been for- 
 merly, according to the account I had of 
 it, and the few Friends left, did not live 
 in that unity I could have been glad to 
 have found among them ; to this meeting 
 once belonged Margaret Langdale, who 
 came to Philadelphia, and was afterwards 
 the wife of our worthy Friend Samuel 
 Preilon, late of that city, her labours a- 
 mong Friends in the work of the miniftry 
 were of great fervice in her time. 
 
 From Bridlington I came toHornfey, 
 and to two other places, and fo to Hull, 
 having meetings, fome of which were 
 large, being attended both by Friends and 
 other people, and the Divine Prefence of 
 the Almighty being over all, they ended 
 togoodfatisfaclion. From Hull I went 
 to a meeting in my way to Cave-holden, 
 Pontifracl, RawcHfF, and Thorn, to which 
 meetings I travelled in great afHiclion of 
 body, and much confiicT: of fpirit, on 
 
 account 
 
 iji^ 
 
«74P. 
 
 C 70 ] , 
 
 account of great befetments that fell to my 
 lot in the courfe of my travels, and the 
 work and warfare that I honeftly labornxd 
 in, having left all that was near and dear 
 to me as a creatm^Cj on account of the 
 bleffed truth ; that had not the All-power- 
 ful Aid helped me, to look to him in 
 whom everlailing flrength is, I had faint- 
 ed ; but dominion and praife to him for- 
 ever, his flrength was made perfect in my 
 great weaknefs 1 and in thofe meetings I 
 was enabled to bear a teftimony to his Al- 
 mighty name, altho' out of meetings 
 greatly befet -, yet keeping my confidence 
 in' God, he was pleafed in his great mercy 
 to cafl up a way for my help and deliver- 
 ance ! 
 
 From Thorn, I v/ent to my dear 
 Friend Jofeph Atkinfon's at RawclifFj 
 who and his wife were as tender towards 
 me as if I had been one of their own fami- 
 ly ; after fome flay with thefe my loving 
 Friends, I got better in healthy and the 
 motion of life and love increaling in my 
 heart to vifit the churches, I proceeded, 
 and went to Thorn meeting, which was 
 
 an 
 
C 71 ] 
 
 an edifying good time 5 here I met with 1749. 
 my Friend John Fiiher, who accompanied 
 me to feveral places, having before tra- 
 velled moftly alone, both in England and 
 Ireland, as to a conftant companion ; — 
 we had two meetings in our way to Wil- 
 liam Payne's, where we had a meeting, 
 and at Hanfworth-Woodhoufe, to which 
 laft belonged John Hallam, a dear Friend 
 who had been very acceptable in his reli- 
 gious vifit to Friends in America, and 
 had vilited the churches to the great com- 
 fort of the faithful ; his agreeable compa- 
 ny at his own houfe, renewed our frefli 
 unity in pure and lading fellowfhip in the 
 gofpel of peace ; from thence we went to 
 Sheffield, where we had two large good 
 meetings j the next was Burton, which 
 was large and a comfortable time ; the 
 next meeting was at Wakefield, where 
 came a pretty many people, in v/hich I 
 was filent, as it fo fell out at feveral places 
 in meetings appointed, which I have con- 
 cluded, if rightly minded, might be a 
 means to bring people to hearken to the • 
 alone teacher in their own hearts, for it 
 is there the word of faith is to be obeyed ; 
 M and 
 
L 72 ] ■• 
 
 174^. and akho' the dependance of the outward 
 ear fometimes may be upon the fervants 
 of Chrifl: ; yet they cannot fpeuk aright^ 
 and to the witnefs in the confcicnces of 
 men, but as he is pleafed by his fpiiit ta 
 srive them utterance ; the deri2:n and ten- 
 dency of all true gofpcl miniftry, A\'hich 
 fpring's from the Divine Word of Hfe, be- 
 ing to ftir up the pure mind to adhere to 
 the holy teaching of Chrifl in their own 
 fouls • 
 
 The next meeting was at Gilderfhamy 
 which was a folid good opportunity, and 
 dearly united my fpirit to fome who at- 
 tended the fame ; from hence I went to 
 Leeds, and was ac two large meetings on 
 the firft day, and at a week day meeting, 
 fome of which, I hope tended to pro- 
 mote true fpiritual worfhip to God ; from 
 hence we w-ent to Waldale, Brighoufe, 
 and Rawdcn, and had meetings which 
 were large folid and comfortable ; the next 
 •was at Bradford, to which came a pretty 
 many people, and it ended well ; we 
 lodged at Benjamin Bartlett's, where w^e 
 met with Edmund Peckover, Jane Hof- 
 
 kinsj 
 
C 73 ] 
 kins, and May Drumond ; my worthy 
 Friend Edmund, having left great fweet- 
 nefs in the minds of many in America, 
 and on mine in particular, it was a com* 
 fort to me to fee him aq;ain« 
 
 From hence we went to Halifax, ac- 
 companied by William Long'mier, a dear 
 brother and fellow helper in the gofpel, 
 w^ho had been with us to feveral meetings 
 before, and was choice com^pany, and did 
 me much good ; the meeting at Halifax 
 was large, and ended I hope to the ho- 
 nour of Truth : here I parted with my 
 companion, John Fiflier, and went to 
 five diftant places, having meetings in 
 my way to Skipton, fome of which were 
 large, being attended both by Friends 
 and other people, and I believe to edili- 
 cation : I had a good time at the meetinjy 
 at Skipton, and with the fchollars of my 
 Friend David Hall at his fchool, havino- 
 near unity with his company, I lodged 
 here one night, and went from thence to 
 Lowtherdale, where William and Mary 
 Slater belonged, who were ferviceable • 
 Friends in the work of the miniftry ; this 
 M 2 meeting 
 
 I74J7. 
 
tUO' 
 
 C 74 ] 
 
 meeting was large and eminently afFecled 
 with the fenfe of Divine Life and Power; 
 the next meetings were Ayrton, Settle, 
 and Newton, which Vv'cre moftly folid and 
 fatisfaclory ; the next was Narfedale, which 
 was fmall, and I was fearful very cold 
 profeflbrs of the right v/ay of worihip in 
 this I was filent ; from thence I went to 
 theFicl, Proud-Prefton, Longridge, and 
 Elmaridge, and had meetings, which tho' 
 moftly fmali were pretty fatisfaciory ; the 
 meetings following were Sowledale, Tro w- 
 den, Marfden, and Trodmarden, and at 
 another place, which were generally large 
 and edifying. I went next to the meet- 
 ings at Holdham, Manchefter, Langtree, 
 Afton, BickerftafF, and Liverpool, fome 
 of which were pretty large and folidly 
 vLancaniire. comfortablc ; from Liverpool I went to 
 Pankith, Warrington, and Framby, 
 which meetings were large and uniting 
 feafons to the honeft hearted; at the lafl 
 place I was much relieved and fet at liber- 
 ty thro' the dominion of the Divine Pow- 
 er that attended ; from this place came 
 Efther Clare to Pennfylvania, a Friend of 
 the miniftry, a member of our meeting in 
 
 Philadelphia, 
 
[ 75 ] 
 
 Philadelphia, who was divinely endowed 1745. 
 and infpired with a knowledge in the 
 things of God's kingdom, and was a 
 helpful inftruQient in the hand of the 
 Lord to me in my young years : — The 
 next meetings were Sutton, Newton, and 
 John Downs in Chefhire, to folid com- 
 fort ; from thence I went to Chefter, 
 and to Rixham in Wales, which were hard 
 fmall meetings, and dull as to the life 
 of religion ; then returning into Chelliire, chcmiic, 
 to Namptwich, and Middlewitch, had 
 meetings which were comfortable feafons: 
 I then went to the houfe of a Friend be- 
 longing to Morley, where I refted fome 
 days as to travelling ; during my flay here 
 I vifited the fick, and fome Friends fami- 
 lies, and Morley meeting which was 
 large, and the good prefence of the Lord 
 attending, made it a good meeting ; from 
 thence I went to Stockport, Maxiield, 
 and Leek, fome of which meetinQ;s were 
 large and to fatisfaclion ; the laft place 
 was in Staffordfhire, in my way from Jofhua gtafford- 
 Tofft's to Stafford I had a meeting ; as ^^''^' 
 likewife in that town, which was fmall, 
 and the life of truth appearing at alow 
 
 ebb 
 
iiuie 
 
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 E74P. ebb among them, was caufe of forrow 
 and fuffering to my mind ; the next 
 meeting was at Birmingham, which was 
 pretty large, and 1 hope of fervicc to fome 
 who were there ; — from thence I went to 
 Warwick- Coventry, and lodged at my kinfman's 
 John Newman, his wife being my wife's 
 firfl coufin, they were exemplary Friends 
 truly kind and loving, and a comfort to 
 yne in meeting with them at their own 
 houfe ; here I heard of the death of my 
 dear aunt Martha Chalkley, from a Friend 
 living at this place, the account of which 
 much affecled my fpirit for the lofs of fo 
 near a relation and dear Friend, whom 
 I much loved and efteemed, flie being one 
 who feared the Lord, and was ferviceable 
 to Friends where Ihe lived in her time. 
 
 A T Coventry I was at two large meet- 
 ings, one of which was much crowded by 
 reafon of a funeral, and both were folid 
 opportunities with the people; from hence 
 1 went to Eadgley, and another place 
 fome diftance, and was at two folid meet- 
 ings ; the next were at Warwick, and 
 Eatington, from whence I went to Ship- 
 ton, 
 
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 ton, in Worceflerihire, and was at two tu?^ 
 large meetings to edification, from thence 
 to Longcompton, Ifedway, arid Harbo- Worccfter- 
 rough, fomeof which meetings were large 
 and folid ; at the lafl place I was told, that 
 the people when they heard of the meet- 
 ing intended, faid they would come to 
 fee the Outlandifh man, and many came 
 who behaved foberly, and Divine Life pre- 
 vailed that day among us to the comfort 
 of my mind ; from thence I went forward 
 to two meetings in my way to Worcefter^ 
 at diftant places ^ at Worcefter the meet- 
 ings were large and folid, and tho' fome 
 profeiTors appeared to be gone out from 
 the way of the felf denying life, into 
 much liberty and extravagance, yet I be- 
 lieve it was a time of vifitation to their 
 fouls ; from this city I went to Bewdley, 
 Bromfgrove, Sturbridge, Dudley, and 
 Colebrookdale, at which places I had 
 meetings, moftly pretty large, folid, and 
 edifying ; the next place I v/ent to v/as 
 Shrewfbury, where,in company with feve- 
 ralFriends, Ivifited two dear Friends that -^^^^P^-^-* 
 were in prifon on account of tithes, and our - 
 hearts being tendered together, we had to 
 
 praife 
 
[ 78 ] 
 
 S74P- praife the Lord and were comforted altho* 
 in fuch a place of outward confinement ; I 
 was alfo at a meetin^in the meeting-houfe 
 which tho' not large was I hope well. 
 
 Wales. From hence I went into Wales, with 
 
 John Fowler, a folid young man, who 
 tho' not a public minifter, came out of 
 Warwickfhire on purpofe to accompany 
 me ; our firft meeting was at Dolobran 
 in Montgomeryfhire, which was fmall and 
 poor ; then we came to Ellis Lewis's where 
 we had a meeting with a few plain kind 
 Friends, and at Twinde, in Merrioneth- 
 Ihire, where were only three Friends to 
 keep up the meeting ; but it afforded 
 much comfort to my mind, that I had an 
 opportunity to fee them, with whom we 
 had a folid time ; the next meeting was at 
 John Goodwin's in the fame County, a 
 brave worthy man, who had been inflru- 
 mental to bring feveral to the knowledge 
 of the truth thereaway, and where is a 
 large meeting, in which it gave me fatis- 
 faclionin beino: amono; them: from thence 
 we went to Talcot, and fo into Radnor- 
 fliire in South Wales, where we had two 
 
 large 
 
I 79 1 
 hi'ge good meetings, then to Pennybank 
 in Carmarthcnfhire, and at Thomas Price's 
 we had a fmall folid rfieeting, and at Ann 
 Evan's in Cardlganiliire, to which came 
 many people, and the meeting was to fa- 
 tiofaclion and comfort ; we then had a 
 meeting in our way to Carmarthen, and 
 there alio, which were fmall and but few 
 faithful labourers, and the unfteadinels 
 of f%me m.adc it a mournful time to me ; 
 from thence I came to Haverford-weft, 
 v/here the Friends of Redilone met, 
 \vhich meeting was fcmewhat fatisfaclory. 
 In my way from my dear Friend John 
 Lewis's to Svvanzey, I had two diiiant 
 meetinrrs, one of which was lan^e and 
 mollly people who did not profefs with 
 us, and !• hope was of good fervice, the 
 life and power of the Divine Word bring- 
 ing the minds of the people into (liilnefs, 
 the meeting ended welL — I was at tv.'o 
 meetings at Su^anzey, the fii it fmall and 
 filent, the other a large open time ; from 
 thence we came to John Eevan's, where 
 v/e had a Imall r.aid meet in o-, then at 
 Pontypool, where the meeting Vv^as pret- . 
 ty large and I hope ended well ; we had 
 ^ - N alfo 
 
Wales. 
 
 Z 8° J 
 alfo an evening meeting at a Friends houfe, 
 which was a comfortable time ; and one 
 at Shiienewton, not very large, but 
 a good meeting, this being the lafl in 
 Wales ; having vifited all the meet- 
 ings in that country that could be called 
 bv our name, as near as I remember, ex- 
 cept Fed down, and fome of that meeting 
 were at Haverford-weft ; when 1 had got 
 there, 1 had great caufe to be humbly 
 th.:Lnlr'ul to my kind Lord and Mailer, for 
 his Divine Help and merciful prefervation 
 thro' much toillome travel both of body 
 and fpiric. 
 
 Hereford- 
 Jhire. 
 
 From thence I went to Rofs in Here- 
 fordfliire, and on my way parted with 
 my companion John Fowler, Jiis defirc 
 being to return home after this journey ; 
 at Rofs I had a comfortable meeting, and 
 went forward to Hamler, Leominfter, and 
 Bromyard, having meetings ; the two 
 firfl were lolid good opportunities, and at 
 Leominfter, it was large and fome hope- 
 ful newly convinced Friends were there; 
 the other w^as almoft lifelefs as to a true 
 zeal for Divine Worfhip, and but little 
 
 profpecj 
 
[81] 
 
 profpedt of the growth of truth ; from 
 thence Icameinto Glocederfhire, and had Gioccflcr- 
 mcetings at Teuklbury, Cheltcnliai-ii,Glo- ^^'^'^^* 
 ceiler, Painfwick, andNailfworth, feme of 
 which were hard fuffering times, and 1 iin- 
 cerely wiih the life of righteoufnefb more 
 abounded among the profeiTors thereof ; 
 from thence I came to Thornbury and to • 
 Ann Young's, and was at two good meet- 
 ings^ then to Briilol, where I attended B-i^oi, 
 feveral large meetings, in which the kind 
 hand of the Lord was vrith us, and I 
 found Friends there to be very loving, 
 and left them in the fame ; I ah'b viiit- 
 edKingfweflon and Frenchay, which were 
 large folid and edifying m(5etings ; from 
 thence to Sadfbury, Tedbury, Cireiicef- 
 ter, Addington, and Camden, having 
 meetings, and I truO: vvas clear as to my 
 duty among them ; the next meetings 
 w^ere Milton, Burford, Whitney, Chal- oxford- 
 bury, Chippingnorton, Hooknorton, and ''^^' 
 Sedford, f^verai of which were large good 
 opportunities ; from thence I v/ent for- 
 ward to South nevv ton, and Banbury, aiid 
 was at three meetings, one .or which v. as. 
 iilent, the other large good c^porcuiiiacs ; 
 N 2 at 
 
[ 82 ]' 
 
 £755. at Banbury I was favoured Vvlth tlic corn' 
 pany of my Friend Benjamin Kidd, who. 
 I had formerly fccn in Piiiladelpliia, when 
 a lad, and was a comfort to me when 
 I was in a reverent fcarch after the things 
 of God's kingdom ; the friendfliip of this 
 dear JFricnd at his houfe, v/as alfo now an 
 • encouragement to me in the way of my 
 rehgious fervice. 
 
 Fro^ hence I Vv^ent forvv'ard into feve- 
 ral counties, and was at a number of meet-, 
 ings in diiierent places, wdiicli I hope v;ere 
 of profit to the people, and in fome places 
 they were large ; at two of them 1 had the 
 company of my beloved Friends Catharine 
 Paytcn and Rachel "Wilfon, they being 
 in their way to the Yearly-Meeting at 
 BcrkOiire. London ; >-ve went forv^ard together to 
 Reading, where I mict vv^ith my dear v*^or- 
 thy Friend Samuel liopv/ood, with whom 
 when in Pennfylvania, I had travelled to 
 fome places, and I believe v/as now glad of 
 our meeting to fee each other again ; he 
 was a zealous and fervent labourer in the 
 Lord's vincyra-d, who I believe had blcffed 
 bis labours to many fouls j we had a meet- 
 ing 
 
London. 
 
 [ 83 ] 
 
 iii^ at Reading to Avcct fatlsfaclion ; from 1750. 
 thence we all went to Maidenhead, and 
 was at a mee:ing there, in which I was fi- 
 lent ; from this town we v/ent to London 
 together, and on our way feveral Friends 
 met us ; our Friend John Hunt being one 
 of them, would have me to his houfe, and 
 gave me a kind reception, where I made 
 my home for the mod part during the 
 times my lot was ca(l in that great city. 
 
 The Yearly-ivlecting was large, and 
 I hope edifying to many honeil travellers 
 in Sion's way. 
 
 W H E N this meeting w^as over, I went 
 for Scotland, finding my mind drawm scothnd. 
 forth in much love to Friends in thofe parts, 
 as I had after I firft ianded in England ; 
 but thro' forne difccuragement in myfelf, 
 omitted the opportunity of going there 
 v/hen I was in Cumberland, near the bor- 
 ders of it, v/hich caufed me much more 
 travelling to get to fee Friends thcreaw?.y ; 
 but in regard to peace of mind, vrhich is 
 to be valued above all the v/orld, I now ■ 
 gave up to perform this vifit. 
 
 From 
 
C 84 ] 
 
 »75o. From London I went through feveral 
 
 counties, having many meetings in parti- 
 cular phces appointed, I was alfo at three 
 Yearly- Meetings in my journey, as Col- 
 chefter, Wcodbridge, and Norwich, fe- 
 veral of which were large and fatisfaflory, 
 as -were alfo fome of the appointed meet- 
 ings, tho' fmall, and I had near commu- 
 nion in fpirit with fome Friends as I paf- 
 fed thro' Effex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and 
 LincolnHiire, and in Yorkfliire ; I pro- 
 ceeded from York to Darlington with my 
 companion John Kendal, a folid youngs 
 man of Colchefler, who had a favoury 
 teilimony for truth ; w^e had a good meet- 
 ing at Darlington, then went forward to 
 Durham, and Newcallle, at each of 
 which towns we had meetings, and Friends 
 were kind in ailifling to get us on our way 
 to Alnwick, where we had a fmall meet- 
 ing, and lodged at John Doubliday's ; we 
 then proceeded to Kelfo, where we had 
 two good folid meetings ; then to Edin- 
 burgh, and had a meeting to fome fatisfac- 
 tion ; after which we had but one little 
 meeting, which was in a Friend's houfe, 
 
 until 
 
C S5 ] 
 
 until we got to Aberdeen, where we had ,„«; 
 two that were large, in which I hope the Scotland. 
 Lord's Power was in dominion to folid 
 comfort; from thence we went to Klnf- 
 wells, Inverary, and Old Meldrom, and 
 had meetings to fome degree of fatisfafti- 
 on ; the laft named place was the furtheit 
 meeting we had in Scotland, which was 
 pretty large ; from thence we came to 
 Kilmuck, and wa.s favoured with a com- 
 fortable meeting and fomewhat large ; the 
 next was at New Aberdeen, alfo at Urie, 
 at the feat of Robert Barclay, vvhich wer^ 
 folid opportunities ; at Urie there came 
 many people. Friends and others, who 
 behaved with folid attention, which made 
 it a time of proHt I hope to fome ; at this 
 place we met with our Friends David Bar- 
 clay, his vAiQ and two daughters from Lon- 
 don, who had come on a vifit to their re- 
 lations and Friends in thofe parts, and 
 when they fat out from home we came a 
 pretty many miles on our way with them; 
 they v/ere very kind and friendly, and by 
 this acquaintance fuch a love was begat in 
 the hearts of thofe kind Friends, that • 
 when I came back to London they had me 
 
 fcveral 
 
[ 8^ ] 
 
 i7;o. fcvcral times to their houfe, and were 
 
 Scotland, truly refpedful to me ; parting with 
 them in Scotland, we went towards Glaf- 
 gow, and had a Imaii good meeting fome 
 miles diUant from thence, and in Glaf- 
 gow we were at three meetings, two of 
 which were large, and in the main to fo- 
 lid fatisfadion : After w^e had vifited 2AI 
 the meetings of Friends in thefe parts, as 
 near as I remember exQept one, fome of 
 the members of w^hich were at the meet- 
 ing at Urie, we came on our way to Eng- 
 land again, which was feveral days jour- 
 ney before we got to Cailific, and were 
 obriged to lodge at feveral inns, which was 
 not quite agreeable j but when I got over 
 
 England., the water v/liich parts England and the 
 other land, my heart was tendered and 
 broken before the Lord, under a fenfe of 
 pure peace for the performance of this vi- 
 fit to that part of the world j I thought 
 there were a few folid Friends in places, 
 and could rejoice to hear that there num- 
 ber was increafed ; we went through Car- 
 
 Cariiflc. lifle, and lodged at our kind Friend 
 Richard Wait's at Newtown, a littlp dif- 
 
 Kciij.ii. tance } next day wc fat out for Kendal, 
 
 and 
 
[ 87 ] 
 and got there that night, where We were ,750, 
 lovingly received, llayed fomc time Z-ancafnircs 
 for reft, and attended feveral large, 
 foUd, good meetings, and vifited divers 
 dear friends in the town ; from hence pro- 
 ceeded to meetings at the following places, 
 viz. Crook, Prefton, Lancafter and Man- 
 chefter,which were moflly to fatisfaction ; 
 then went into Derbyfhire, to Moniafh, Derbyinh-e? 
 Matlock, Brick and Chefterfield, and fe- 
 veral other places, fome of which meetings 
 were large, and 1 hope of fervice through 
 Divine Help, for the promotion of truth ; 
 I parted with my dear Friend John Ken- 
 dal,foon after I left Manchefter, he intend- 
 ing to return home, after our long journey 
 thro' Scotland ; from this county I pafTed 
 through Northamptonfliire, Lincolnfhire, 
 Leiceflerihire, having many meetings, fe- 
 veral of which I hope were to the fatisfac- 
 tion of the faithful ; at a particular meet- 
 ing not far from Leicefter, to which came 
 a confiderable number of Friends, fome of 
 them from feveral diflant meetings, it be- 
 ing the firft day of the week, as we fat to- 
 gether in filence before the Lord,there was 
 
 o 
 
 a fliock of an earthquake, which made a 
 O gi'eat 
 
L ?8 i 
 
 i7io. great flir in the place, and the people wlicr 
 were met at another hciife for woifhlp, 
 came away, as I was told, to cur nicetii;^;, 
 where we were prefcrved in great flihnc-'s 
 and little appearance of flaviih fear, and I 
 hope it was a fingukr tioiC of benefit to 
 that affembly.— From this county I went 
 intoRutlandihire, Buckinghamfaire, Eed- 
 fordfliire, and Hartfordfhire, and was at a 
 number ofmeetingSjfomeo' uhicliwcrt fa- 
 voured with a fenfe of the Lord's bkiTcd 
 power and prefcnce; the next counties v. ere 
 Huntingdonfliire and Caml.ridgcfliiie, in 
 which were feveral folid meetings, tho' 
 that at Cambridge was fma-1, and the 
 darknefs of that dark place much depref- 
 fed my fpirit, which was attended with 
 deep fuffering ;• — I we/it from this county 
 into the Ifle-of-Ely, and vifited the meet- 
 ings generally thereaway ; in the per- 
 formance of which I had fome comfort of 
 mind ; from hence I went into Norfolk, 
 Suffolk, Effex and Hartford counties, vi- 
 iiting meetings as they were laid out by 
 Friends, there being in feveral places fome 
 valuable folid Brethren, with whom I had 
 near unity of fpirit, in that faith which 
 
 iland» 
 
r 89 j 
 
 ftands not In the wifdom of man, but in 
 the power of God ; from hence I came in- 
 to Middlefex, and had meetings, alfo at 
 B-i'ingtoke, -Alton and SaUfbury and fe- 
 veral other places in Wiltfliire, fome of 
 v/hich were comfortable feafons in the 
 be:l fcnfe ; I then went into Somerfet- 
 fliire, and to Bath and Froome, and fome 
 other places, and had meetings ; then to 
 Poifet, and was favoured with a facisfac- 
 tory meeting there, and the next day I 
 was taken ill at my friend James Player's, 
 it being I thought pretty much the effect 
 of a cold, hard travelling and a clofe en- 
 gagement of body and fpirit I had paf- 
 fed through from one place to another ; 
 this illnefs detained me fome weeks, in 
 which time I w^as brought very weak in 
 body, and at times low in fpirit ; but 
 through the kind mercy of God, having 
 fomewhat recovered (tho' flill weak) I fat 
 out for the Wefl of England, and went to 
 Clareham, Glaflonbury, Bridgewater, and 
 many other places, at which I had meet- 
 ings, fome being large and m.ercifully fa- 
 voured with Divine Help, uniting love 
 and power 5 after vifiting the meetings in 
 O 2 the 
 
 X7J«. 
 
C PO ] 
 
 1750. the county of SomeiTet ; I went into De- 
 vonfhire and Corn\val5 having the compa- 
 ny of my dearly beloved tiicnd John Play- 
 er, to whofe fpirit I was nearly united in 
 the love of truth, and was a great comfort 
 and help to me in my weak condition, 
 at his uncle's. — I would juft remark that 
 in fome of the counties in which I had 
 been, fome dear young people, who were 
 libertine in the fhew of pride and finery 
 of the world, became fober, folid and ex- 
 emplary, and one young w oman in parti- 
 cular was fo reached, as I fat in a Friend's 
 houfe, tho' I had nothing by way of tefti- 
 mony in words to her condition, yet the 
 weight and exercife attending my mind 
 at that time,fo reached herunderffanding, 
 fhe became a plain folid Friend, and be* 
 fore I left England, 1 beared her in the mi- 
 niftry at a meeting, and as I thought, to the 
 general fatisfaclion of Friends prefent ; — • 
 I was at Exeter meeting in DevonfhirCj 
 and had a weighty folid time among 
 Dcvonihhe. Fricnds there, although I was much af- 
 flicted with the converfation of one pro- 
 fefling the truth, that pleaded for carnal 
 defence, and alked what defence we had 
 
[91 ] 
 
 in the province of Pennfylvania ; I told 175,. 
 him that Providence was our defence ; 
 yet he continued to plead for carnal defence 
 in fuch a manner, that gave me much pain 
 of mind, and I told him that I had no unity 
 with his principles, and bore my teftimo- 
 ny againft his unprofitable difcourfe. — I 
 went to feveral meetings in my way to 
 Kingfbridge, where 1 had a folid meeting ; 
 from thence took a number of meetings 
 in my way to Auftil in Cornwal, fome of ComwaL 
 which were to fatisfaclion, and I hope of 
 fome fervice to the right minded ; after a 
 weighty good meeting at Auflil, I came to 
 Falmouth ,and had amceting in which I hope 
 I w^as clear as to my duty amongfl them ; 
 then accompanied by my dear Friend Sa- 
 muel Hopwood, I went to Penzance, and 
 many other meetings in thefe counties ; 
 from this place, where w^e had I hope a fer- 
 viceable meeting, I returned, taking feve- 
 ral meetings in my way to Bridport in 
 Dorfetfhire : we had two meetin2:s in this ^^''^'^^' 
 
 ' ^ o /hire. 
 
 town, the laft of which \^as large^ the 
 people being told of an Indian, as I had 
 come from America, I believe it raifed a 
 curiofity among them, for a large num- 
 
 . ber 
 
C ?2 ] 
 
 ,^5». ber came to the meeting, and as they 
 0ori"cLfhirc. came in looked on me and one upon ano- 
 ther, but after a while behaved in a iober 
 manner, and my dear Lord and Mailer 
 favoured the opportunity I hope to the 
 comfort of many, and when the meeting 
 ended the people departed with quietnefs 
 and fobriety ; for which I had caufe to be 
 truly thankful, being much concerned 
 how we fliould fare that day, fo as not to 
 occaiion any blame to the good caufe I 
 have lincerely laboured to promote from 
 my youth, humbly defiring that my en- 
 deavours altho' weak, might tend to ad- 
 vance the fame. 
 
 After having a pleafing time much 
 to my comfort, with my loving kind 
 Friend Samuel Bownas, who had vifited 
 America in the work of the miniftry twice, 
 I proceeded to feveral meetings in my way 
 to Weymouth and Pool, v/here I alfo had 
 meetings, fom.eof which were folid times ; 
 then taking feveral meetings in my way to 
 Southampton, Ihad there a fmall meeting; 
 then pafTed over to Cowes on the Ifle-of- 
 Wightj and after vifiting Friends there, 
 
 and 
 
C n ] 
 
 and being favoured with fome folid meet- 1751, 
 ings among them, I returned to South- Kent. 
 ampton, and the next was a good meet- 
 ing tho' fmall, at Portfmouth ; then a fa- 
 tisfaclory large meeting at Chichefter, and 
 two in my way to Lewis, where I was at 
 a meeting to which belonged fome loving 
 Friends ; from thence I took a meeting in 
 my way to Kent county, and was at feve- 
 ral as I went to Dover, fome of which 
 werefatisfactory ; tho' at Dover a hard time 
 with the Friends attending the meeting ; 
 from thence I went to Folkflone, and fo 
 forvrard to Canrerbury, and had a good 
 meeting ; as alfo another between this 
 place and London ; when I came to Lon- 
 don, I went to my Friend John Hunt's, 
 my ufuai lodging, ftaid fometime in this 
 city, and vifited many meetings which 
 were large, and I had good caufe to be 
 thankful to God for his eminent power 
 and prefence, being therein manifefted to 
 the fouls of his people, that I hope feveral 
 of thofe meetings tended to the edification 
 and comfort of the faithful among them j 
 believing that the Lord hath a choice peo- 
 ple in that great city,, who fear his great 
 
 Almighty 
 
 Londoa* 
 
C 94 ] 
 
 tjsx. Almighty name, and they are near to my 
 fph'it in the covenant of love and life. 
 
 After I had thus vifited London, I 
 went to a confidcrable number of meetings 
 in places Ibme diflance from thence, iome 
 of which were large weighty folid oppor- 
 tunities ; my beloved Friend John Pem- 
 berton, whole company was acceptable, 
 being with me at fevei al of them. 
 
 Xondoiu Having gone through all the coun^ 
 
 ties in England, and generally vifited 
 Fiiends meetings therein, as alfo thofe in 
 W ales and Scotland, I attended the Year- 
 ly-Meeting in London, which was large 
 and much favoured with the loving kind- 
 nefs and blelfed prefenceof the Almighty ; 
 many dear Fi iends being here with whom 
 i had near acquaintance, it was a comfort 
 to my fpirit that I could fee them and part 
 with them in the unity and love of truth ; 
 a fliort time after the conclufion of this 
 meeting, accompanied by feveral loving 
 Friends,! went to Gravefend, in order to 
 embark on board a veflei bound for New- 
 York^ which not being ready for failing 
 
 wheri 
 
C 95 ] 
 
 when we came there, our dear Friends jtsi, 
 left us, I believe in true love, my fph'it 
 nearly and afFedionately parting with 
 them ; Edward Cathrall of Philadelphia, 
 was paiTenger with mc in this vefTel, Che- 
 valier Dean being commander j we fat fail 
 and came away as foon as we could from 
 Gravefend, and after a pafTige of about 
 eleven weeks, landed at New-York on 
 the loth day of the feventh month, 1751 
 old ilyle, and on the 1 3th of the fame 
 month we got home to our habitations, phUadel- 
 being the day before our Yearly-Meeting ^ '^^^ 
 in this city. Which was through the 
 great prefervation of the Almighty, Vv'ho 
 was, and is a God nigh at hand, who fup- 
 ported and preferved me in great probati- 
 ons and conflicls of foul, beyond my abi- 
 lity to fet forth in words ; but I think it 
 my duty to fay. Good is the Lord a?id greats 
 ly worthy to he feared^ praifed^ loved ^ he* 
 mured J worfmpped^ and obeyed ! his good- 
 nefs, mercy and grace have been eminent 
 for my prefervation and falvation, that he 
 would not fuffer me to be confounded, . 
 altho' he was plcafed to permit great prov- 
 ings to befaU me, both in my pafTige home 
 P and 
 
[ 96 1 
 
 i,ji. and after I got to my habitation, accord- 
 ing to his All-wife purpofes ; yet under- 
 neath has been hiseverlafting Arm of com- 
 ^ paflion and ftrength, which has wrought 
 for my deliverance, and enabled me to 
 commie my foul, body, and fpirit to his 
 keeping. — Pvly dear children and affeclio- 
 nate Friends, I believe were glad for my 
 return to them, and altho' I much defired 
 to get to my native land and to fee them 
 again, after an abfence of more than three 
 years ; yet my expectation as to the plea- 
 lure and comfort of that Divine Blefling 
 in a manner I could have wiflied, was 
 much difappointed, which I have thought 
 was in part occaiioned through an omiill- 
 on of duty, tho' I hope it was not wilful j 
 it being to go on a vilit to a people of ano- 
 thet^anguage, and I omitted the oppor- 
 tunity of performing that part of fervice, 
 and had I gone on that errand, I might 
 have got home as foon as I now did, and 
 my once expected fatisfaclion I might have 
 enjoyed. — AvefTel belonging to our city, 
 the Captain a member of our fociety, 
 vdiom I knew and efteemed, was deii- 
 rous of my taking pailage with him from 
 
 London, 
 
[ 97 ] 
 
 London, from whence he did not fail un- 
 til feveral weeks after us, and arrived at 
 Philadelphia, about the time I landed at 
 New- York, that had I proceeded on the 
 vilit which was upon my mind, it was 
 thought I might have perfo'rmed it, and 
 have been ready to embark in this vcfft] ; 
 but a cowardice and diilldcnce of my own 
 abilities at times, and a fear of going too 
 faft (I think I can honeftly fay) more thari 
 wilful difobedience, have brought fome of 
 the greateft forrows upon me that I have 
 met with in the world ; but the mercies of 
 Cod are great, who ought to be ferved 
 and adored, and is worthy of the deep- 
 ed reverence that can be afcribed to his. 
 All- Powerful Name ! 
 
 Af T E R a time of great aniiiety he was 
 pleafed by his gracious Arm to deliver 
 me, and to put a new fong into m.y mouth, 
 even praifes to him the Living God! the 
 light of his glorious Countenance afreili 
 Ihining upon me, his blelTed " S:m of 
 Right eoufnefs'' appeared with healing un- 
 der his wings, and I was fat at liberty 
 again in a good degree to ferve and praife ' 
 Iiim the Lord in the land of the living. . 
 
 nsT, 
 
I 98 J 
 
 flis re fur 72 from England ; — His vifiting 
 iVf^^//«^//«Pennfylvania^/2^New-Jerfey; 
 — His fourth *Jcurneyto New-England; — " 
 His V'lfit tLrjugb the Southerri Provinces t& 
 South- Carolina, &c. 
 
 AGAIN took frefli encouragement 
 to do my bed endeavours both with re- 
 fpecl to temporal and fpiritual things, 
 and fettled myfelf with my two children, 
 and my wife's mother, who lived in the fame 
 houfe with us ; I kept to dihgence in my 
 outward calling, wherein I w as bleiTed of 
 the Lord with all the needful things of this 
 life for me and mine, and through Divine 
 Help, I was enabled to perform my religi- 
 ous fervices at home and abroad, as I was 
 obedient to the bleffed ability that God 
 giveth, at times vifiting Friends in Penn- 
 fylvania and Ncw-Jerfey, with whom I 
 had great nearnefs in the love of the Hea- 
 venly Father, and many of us were renew- 
 edly united in that love which brought 
 Vs near to himfclf and made known un- 
 to 
 
C 99 1 
 
 to us the way that leads unto life and 
 peace, as in the beginning. 
 
 In the year 1753, having the unity of 1753. 
 my dear Friends at home, my loving . 
 Friend Ifaac Zane being my comjpanion, 
 I went to Long-ifland, and vifited all the laZf. 
 meetings of Friends there, and fomc pla- 
 ces where meetings were not ufually held, 
 or not very often, at Jamaica, and fevc- 
 ral other places, and found great open- 
 nefs among the people, and fome very 
 large meetings, and I think I may fay to 
 the praife of the Lord, I was greatly 
 favoured with his light, life, and bleiTed 
 prefence, v/hich nearly afFecled my heart 
 with gofpel fellowfhip to his children and 
 people thereaway, and returned in the 
 pofTeffion of great fatisfaclion in my own 
 bofom. 
 
 In the year 1754, ^ went in the unity 1754. 
 of Friends, with my dear Friend Ifrael 
 Pemberton as far as Bollon in New-En [^- New-Eng-. 
 
 land. 
 
 land ; and as we went forward w^ere at a . 
 comfortable meeting at New- York ; from 
 whence we went by water to Newport, • 
 
 Rhode-illand, 
 
[ 100 ] 
 
 1 754. Rhode- ifland, and arrived there the even- 
 Rhode- ing before the Yearly-Meeting, at which 
 were our Friends Catharine Payton from 
 England, and Mary Peafley from Ire- 
 land ; the gathering of people was great 
 and much mixed, the love of God in 
 Chrift was truly preached, and lovingly 
 extended to them, and I hope it was a 
 good meeting to many ; — after it ended 
 I went with my Friends Ifrael Pemberton 
 BofioD. ^^d Thomas Lightfoot to Boflon, and 
 from thence I went as far as Lynn and Sa- 
 lem, and returning to Bollon, there again 
 met my two loving Friends, and had a 
 meeting which ended as w^ell as I expect- 
 ed, the people attending it and behaving 
 foberly ; we then fat off for the Yearly- 
 Meeting at Nantucket, and went by wa- 
 ter at Woods-hole, and flopped at an if- 
 land in our way, and being detained by 
 contrary winds, did not reach the meet- 
 ing fo foon as w^e defired ; but got there 
 before it was over, and met again with 
 our two women Friends, before men- 
 tioned, and there being many Friends 
 on this ifland, it was a comfort to me that 
 f I had an opportunity of feeing them once 
 
 more. 
 
\ loi 3 
 
 more, and I efteem it a mercy from the 1754: 
 Divine Being, for it feemed as I thought 
 a riik of our lives to venture as we did in. Nauuckct, 
 a little open boat a great diftance from 
 the land ; but the intentions I believe of 
 all us were for one good purpofe, that we 
 might have a time at that meeting with 
 God's people, to ferve him more than for 
 any other confideration j it was a large 
 m.eeting, and in fome degree comfortable 
 and edifying ; and when it was ended, a 
 pretty many of us, in company with the 
 two European women Friends, took paf- 
 fage and landed at Woods-hole, where we 
 had an evening m.eeting, I beUeve to fo- 
 lid advantage and comfort in fome good 
 degree. Thomas Lightfoot concluded to 
 go forward to accompany the women 
 Friends in their vifit to the other parts of 
 New- England, and my Friend Ifrael Pem- 
 berton and myfelf returned to Newport, 
 where we were at feveral meetings, one 
 was at the burial of the wife of Samuel 
 Holmes, and in the main were folid meet- 
 ings ; from thence we proceeded home- 
 wards through Coneclicut, and got to ^"^YorS 
 New-York, Staten-iHand, and New-Jer- J^^J;^^ 
 
 fey. 
 
C loi ] 
 
 ^754. ^^7' having a large comfortable meeting 
 fome diftance from Jofeph ShotwelFs ; 
 from whence we came pretty direct home 
 through the tender mercies of the Lord ; 
 thisjom^ncy nearly united our hearts to 
 each other, and in his goodnefij he was 
 phafed to afford fome degree of peace to 
 my mind. 
 
 *i7ss. In the year 1755, I viHted mofl of the 
 
 Bucks meetings in Bucks county, fome of which 
 
 •ouuty. ^ ' 
 
 I had not been at for feveral years, and 
 thought were much increafed as to the 
 number of young people, and were large 
 folid good meetings ; wherein I had great 
 nearnefs of fpirit with many tender heart- 
 ed dear Friends, and returned home with 
 fweet peace in the performance of this 
 viiit ; I alio attended feveral meetings in 
 this province and New-Jerfey with my 
 two worthy Friends Nicholas Davis and 
 Adam Mott from New-England, which 
 were large and I believe ferviceable to ma- 
 ny, and I received fome pleafure and deli- 
 verance to my foul, after fome diftreiling 
 trials of my faith, and provings of hope to- 
 wards God, which I have received as an 
 
 unfpeakable 
 
C i°3 ] 
 unfpeakable favour from him, that he 
 was pleafed to bring me out of a horrible 
 pit and fet my feet on a rock, that I can 
 thankfully fay, " None is fo holy as the 
 " Lord, nor any rock like our God that is 
 " in heaven for the help of his people, and 
 *' in his excellency above the fkies/' After 
 a very acceptable vilit to thefe parts, from 
 thofe our dear Friends, who returning 
 homewards Nicholas Davis died by the ways 
 and altho' the lofsl believe to be great to 
 Friends where he belonged, and thofe 
 abroad, where his lot was call on his Lord 
 and Mailer's errand ; yet it is comfortably 
 to be hoped, that he is at reft from his la- 
 bours, and received the reward of a faith- 
 ful fervant ; Oh 1 the fweet favour of life, 
 and eminent power of the Divme Word 
 that attended this man of God, whofe 
 fweet company, edifying converfation 
 and tender love to the little and lowly 
 lambs of Chrift ; (tho' a threfhing inftru- 
 ment in the Lord's hand, againft ungod- 
 linefs and unrighteoufnefs of men, that 
 hold the truth in unrighteoufnefs,) is not 
 to be forgotten by thofe left behind while 
 in mutabilitv, who have had the benefit 
 
 /A of 
 
 t7S4. 
 
[ 104 ] 
 
 i75(j. of his gofpel labours and rightly efleem 
 them. 
 
 Phiiadei- I A L s o accompanicd our dear Friend 
 
 ^^''^' Catharine Payton, with feveral Friends of 
 
 our city, to vilit the families of many of 
 our fellow members, which lervice I 
 think it may be thankfully faid the Lord 
 owned, the ftates and conditions of ths 
 people being fuitably fpoken to. 
 
 In the year 1756, I vJfited feveral meet- 
 jerfey. lugs in Ncw-Jcrfcy, as Mountholly, Bur- 
 lington, Old Springfield, Mansfield, 
 Crofwicks, Bordentown, and Upper- 
 Springfield, which were generally large, 
 and livingly attended with folid comfort j 
 alfo with my dear companion Ifaac Zane, 
 I had feveral fatisfaclory feafons in fome 
 families, where we went to vifit feveral 
 antient Friends, alfo at the houfes where 
 we lodged ; after thefe opportunities we 
 v.'ent forLittle-Egg-harbour, Hopping at a 
 faw-mill on the roadjcailed Mount-Mifery, 
 where they defired a meeting, and find- 
 ing freedom in my mind, we had a tender 
 time with the people, tho' a defolate 
 
 place. — • 
 
[ 105 ] 
 
 place. — We had two meetings at Little- ,75^. 
 Egg-harbour, and I found my mind near- Nen -jci 
 ly united to fome worthy Friends of that ^^' 
 place ; from thence we paffed over a great 
 manh and a river to Great-E^ir-harbour, 
 where we attended a meeting at each meet- 
 ing houfe, and it was caufe of ghdnefs 
 to tee an increafe of tender minded Friends 
 thereaway ; not having been there for 
 many years; there appeared a revival of 
 love for truth and zeal for the fame ; fince 
 my being lad there they had built a meet- 
 ing- houfe, in which we had a powerful 
 fatisfaflory meeting ; we crolTed the ri- 
 ver to Cape-May, and had a meeting at 
 the Vv^idow Townfend's, and one in the 
 evening at her fon's, and from thence we 
 came to Greenwich and AUoways creek, 
 having a meeting at each place, where 
 came a pretty many people, and it v/as to 
 fome degree of comfort ; after the lad 
 meeting we reached home, tho' it was 
 fome what late in the night, and akho' fome 
 part of this journey was attended with 
 much riding and fervent labour in th'e 
 Lord*s work, I had caufe to be thankful 
 q;2 that 
 
ma, 
 
 C 106 ] 
 
 3J55. that I was obedient, and that he was pleaf- 
 ed to enable me to perform my duty. 
 
 ?cnnfyiva- Also in this year 1756, and in 1757 
 and 1758, I attended the Indian treaties, 
 fome part of them with feveral dear Friends 
 of our city, at Eafton in Northampton 
 county, at the time of one of which, 
 I went with my dear Friends John Pem- 
 berton and Benjamin Hooton, as far as 
 Fort- Allen, with an invitation from the 
 Indians affembled at Eafton and the go- 
 vernment of Pennfylvania, to fome Indi- 
 ans who difcovered a backwardnefsor fear 
 of attending the treaty ; it was thought 
 fome of them had been very mifcheivous 
 in the murders and bloodflied and taking 
 of captives, on the frontiers of our pro- 
 vince ; and a great concern. having fall- 
 en on the minds of a number of worthy 
 Friends, principally in Philadelphia, who 
 . freely contributed their money and time, 
 for promoting the reftoration of peace 
 with the natives, as I have apprehend- 
 ed, and believe they have been the 
 \v€tt infirumental in the Lord's hand 
 to appeafe the revengful nature of fo bar- 
 barous 
 
[ 107 J 
 
 barous and cruel an enemy, the hearts of Nonhamp- 
 the Indians retaining' a £>:reat love for the ^"''^ ^°""^y" 
 memory or our iirlt worthy proprietary treaty. 
 William Penn, terming Friends his chil- 
 dren, that I believe they were a great blef- 
 ling in the hand of God, to the govern- 
 ment of this province for the refcoratioa 
 of peace with fuch an enraged enemy, wha 
 had been permitted to be an heavy rod of 
 chafLifement on this land ; yet remark- 
 able it was, that through the prote(5lion 
 of the Almighty, which v/as as the flia- 
 dow of a mighty rock in a wearied land, 
 few called by our name were ill ufed du» * 
 ring all this calamity. 
 
 I 
 There were three Indian men accom- 
 panied us as far as Fort-Allen, Mofes 
 Tatamy, and two others ; we travelled 
 much in the night and through a great 
 rain, ftormy and cold v/eather, to reach 
 that place to which we came the next 
 morning, and the captain received us ve- 
 ry civilly, and I thought did what he 
 could to be of fervice to us, and behaved 
 very, kindly and friendly to the Indians, 
 \yhich they feemed to take well j at firft 
 
treaties. 
 
 C io8 ] 
 
 fight the Indians appeared dreadful to be- 
 hold, as to anger and revenge in their 
 countenances, with their painted warlike 
 looks and weapons, and were very fhy ; 
 yet after fome friendly converfation, and 
 their receiving a few fmall prefencs which 
 tndian wc Carried with us for fonie of their Chiefs, 
 they appeared in a quite different difpoli- 
 tion before we parted ; but could not be 
 prevailed wich to come to the treaty, be- 
 caufe of their word and the engagement 
 they had made among themfelves, to de- 
 pute Tedyufcung, their cheif man, to 
 tranfacl the bufinefs with the government 
 on their behalf; in confirmation of their 
 continuing in this mind, they fent a faring 
 of Wampum by Mofes Tatamy ; after a 
 further time of free converfation they ap- 
 peared flill more pleafed, and as I thought 
 out of Icve to us, fent two of their young 
 men to accompany us back, we parted 
 with them in love, our endeavours appear- 
 ed to be well taken by them, and I hope 
 were of fervice, altho' none of them but 
 the two young men came with us to Eaf- 
 ton ; we ventured our lives, and went 
 through hardfhips to perform thiserrajid ; 
 
 but 
 
[ 109 3 
 
 but through the mercy and kindnefs off i„jian 
 the Lord we were preferved ; for which 
 my loul had caufe to be thankful to his 
 great and good name. — At the other two 
 treaties, I underwent with feveral faith- 
 ful hearts, a deal of inward fuffering and 
 anxiety of fpirit ; a dark and difmal cloud 
 of opposition appearing to the good work 
 of peace ; but the minds of Friends being 
 kept fo as to look unto the Lord Al- 
 mighty, we had many extraordinary good 
 meetings in waiting and thinking on him, 
 and his dear beloved Son Chrifl Jefus, and 
 at times in thofe meetings, the darknefs 
 would pafs away, and the true light would 
 fhine to the renewing the hope of the 
 humble ; and the Lord, magnified be his 
 nam^ ! pvofpered the endeavours of thofe 
 faithful labourers, who had at heart this 
 defirable work of peace, and I believe they 
 wiU be heirs of that bleiiing, wherein 
 Chriiltermeththepeace makers'- Bleffed," 
 and calleth them the " children of God." 
 
 In the year 1757, I met with a near ,75. 
 trial in the death of my eideft daughter 
 Abigail, who departed this life the 23d 
 
 day 
 
L no ] 
 
 day of the fifth month, in the 21 ft yeai* 
 year of her age, which great change I hope 
 to be her everlafting gain ; feme of her 
 laft words were, " Sweet Lcrd receive my 
 ^^foul" and went from this world in the 
 bloom of life, in acceptance I hope with 
 God ; my wife's mother having departed 
 this life on the 29th of the fifth month 
 1753, ^"^ ^ hope is at reft with the Lord 5 
 this burial of my dear child, made the 
 eighth out of my family, and after all 
 thefe many ftrippings and trials, I have 
 found it good to truft in God, and do my 
 beft endeavours. My dear daughter Sa- 
 rah and myfelf were now all of my fami- 
 ly, and the Lord's blefiings and mercies 
 continuing to accompany us, with the near 
 unity and company at times of faithful 
 loving Friends, would unite my heart to 
 the flock and family of Chrift my dear 
 Lord, and to thofe that are within the 
 walls of the falvation of God ; and great 
 hath been the fatisfaclion that I have re- 
 ceived in communion with thofe that are 
 of Jerufalem, for " Peace is witbin her 
 walls ^ and profperity within her Palaces^'', 
 and oh ! the goodnefs and kindnefs of a 
 
 compaftionate 
 
L Tii ] 
 
 compaflionate God in helping and defend- 
 ing me a poor creature, and bleffing 
 the labour and travail of my foul in his 
 righteous caufe, with the enjoyment of 
 peace at times, beyond my ability to fet 
 forth, Glory ^ honour^ and praife to his great 
 Name for evermore ! 
 
 A WEIGHTY concern attendins: 
 bur Yearly- Pvleeting in 1758, for a fur- ^^ss. 
 ther reformation from the praclice of ^J,""/^^" 
 keeping flaves for term of life, feveral 
 Friends with myid^^ v/ere appointed 
 to vifit thofe members of our religious 
 fociety, who held them in bondage, in 
 order to advife for their liberty, it being 
 beheved by the truly confcientious, to be 
 a great iniquity to keep them or their 
 children, and children's children in per- 
 petualcaptivity; agreeable to this appoint- 
 ment, I went in company with my Friends 
 John Scarborough and John Woolman, 
 to feveral fuch families in Chefter county^, 
 to whom I hope v/e Faithfully difcharged 
 our duty ; on our return from this vifit 
 we were at a burial at Uwchland, and 
 at the Monthly-Mceting at Gofhen, 
 R where 
 
county. 
 
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 1758. where we met our Friend Jofeph White-, 
 eheficr and to anfwer the appointment of our 
 Yearly-Meeting for lettnng theWeftern 
 Quarterly-Meeting, at Londongrove, I 
 went with the above named Friends to 
 the minifters meeting held for the firft 
 time at that place, which was on the fe- 
 venth day of the week ; oa the next day 
 I was at Nev/- Garden meeting, and on the 
 following day, being the fecond of the 
 week, at that at Londongrove, held for 
 worfhip and the difcipline of the church, 
 which was very large, and I hope favour- 
 ed in a good degree wdth the beft wifdom, 
 (our Friends Samuel Spavold, and Mary 
 Kirby from 01d=England, were alfo at 
 this Quarterly-Meeting) we had been the 
 week before at the Quarterly-Meeting at 
 Concord, which I hope was of fervice to 
 many ; — after Londongrove meeting I re- 
 turned homewards in company with our 
 Friends Jofeph White, Ifrael Pemberton 
 and feveral others as far as Chefter, where 
 fome of us parted with our Friend- Jo- 
 feph, he intending to embark there in 
 the fervice of truth, on board a veflcl 
 
 bound for England, 
 
 Shortly 
 
C "3 ] 
 
 Shortly after this journey I went to New- 
 Mountholly meeting, and to the C)uarter- 
 ly-Meeting at Crofwicks, and joining 
 company with my Friends John Sykes 
 and John Woolman, performed vidts to 
 many places where they had Haves in 
 bondage, and I hope in true love ; after 
 which, and a folid meeting at Mansfield,^ 
 I returned home with great peace in my 
 own bofom. 
 
 Having intheyear 1757, made fome pi.^j^j^i^ 
 fome progrefs in company with my Friend p^i^- 
 John Pemberton, in a religious villt to 
 the famiUes of Friends in this city, both of 
 fuch as v/ere in unity, and thofe who 
 made fome profeffion among us, we pro- 
 ceeded on and in theyear 1 760 compleated 
 the viiit to above Rve hundred families in 
 the city, the northern liberties, and over 
 Schuylkill, which gave relief to my mind, 
 that we were enabled to accomplish fo 
 weighty an undertaking, wdiich w- as kind- 
 ly received, and I believe by many in that 
 love, wherev/ith the Lord by his council 
 andgoodnefs accompanied us from place to 
 R 2 place. 
 
L "4 ] 
 
 xyffo. place, and I hope they v/erc feafons of ten- 
 der viiitation to many fouls; from the time 
 we began this vifit I was moftly at home, 
 only as I performed the journeys before- 
 mentionedjand at fome other times vifited 
 the neighbouring meetings in Pennfylva- 
 nia and Nevv-Jerfey, wherein I truft I v;as 
 in a good degree clear in the fight of the 
 Lord ; my heart being given up at times 
 to his bleffed requirings ; — in a fliort time 
 after this family vifit, I v/ent as far as 
 Maiden creek, in company with my Friend 
 James Starr, and was at an evening 
 meeting, which was large and edifying, 
 held in his father's houfe ; from hence I 
 went to Reading, Exeter, the Forreft, 
 Jacob Thomas's, and New-Providence, 
 and had large meetings at feveral of thefe 
 places, much to my own relief and com- 
 fort, and I hope to the fatisfaclion of 
 others, for I found Friends thereaway to 
 be loving and tender hearted, which near- 
 ly united my fpirit to many of them, as 
 ihecp of my Heavenly Father's fold, and I 
 truft as they are faithful to Divine Know- 
 ledge, that the Lord will profperhis work 
 among them; my worthy Friend Ellis 
 
 Hugh, 
 
C 115 ] 
 
 Hugh, accompanied me to feveral of thefc i7<s». 
 meetings, and his gofpel labours were ac- 
 ceptable ; after Providence meeting,! went 
 to an evening meeting belonging to Ply- 
 mouth, and the next day came home. 
 
 Bucks 
 county. 
 
 In a little time after I went with my 
 Friend Jofeph Harriot to a large general 
 and youth's meeting at Newtown in Bucks 
 county, which held part of two days, 
 where I met with a kind reception, and 
 was favoured in the Lord's love, to enjoy 
 his living prefence among his children and 
 people thereaway ; then returning home, 
 it being our Quarterly-Meeting, my dear 
 Friend Samuel Nottingham from Tortola 
 was there, and at the youth's meeting the 
 next day, v/hen the Lord's faving pre- 
 fence was made manifefl among the young 
 people, to the rejoicing the upright in 
 heart j — ^the next meetings 1 was at out of 
 town were at a general meeting at Derby, 
 and at the burial of Robert Thomas at 
 Abington, and at the iirft day meeting at ^^'^^'-stc^. 
 By berry, v;hich were large folid feafons, 
 wherei:! I found an opennefs among 
 friends in the love of the gofpel j as alfo 
 
 where 
 
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 ,760. where I vlfited the Hck and the families 
 of fome Friends ; 1 was alfo at a firft day 
 Kew'jcr- Kieeting at Haddonfield, at a large meet- 
 ^"^5" ing at Chefter at the burial of Robert 
 
 French, a Friend in the miniflry who was 
 much beloved and valued as a good Ex- 
 ample among Friends where he had lived, 
 and I thought thefe meetings were owned 
 with the beft of help and inilruclion in a 
 a good degree, for the profit of the peo- 
 ple ; — I was alfo at a large m.eeting at Ply- 
 mouth in Pennfylvania, on occafion of 
 the burial of Jofeph Wain, at which was 
 alfo our Friend Jane Crosfield from Eng- 
 land, who bore a large and living teftimo- 
 ny to truth, and in which meeting gofpel 
 labour was beilowed with defign for the 
 everl ailing benefit of the the people, which 
 I wiih may turn to the good of their never- 
 dying fouls ; — I vifited Fair-Hill, and was 
 at a large meeting at Germantown, at the 
 burial of Derick Johnfon, and at the firft 
 day meeting at Frankfort, in which meet- 
 ings I found a degree of opennefs, to 
 bear a teftimony to the way of truth, and 
 I hope the fpring of life was opened to the 
 
 comfort 
 
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 comfort of fome tenderhearted ones ,7j>, 
 amoneft them. 
 
 o 
 
 Having been under a weighty con- 
 cern of mind in gofpel love, for feveral MaryimJ, 
 years at times to vilit the fouthern pro- Noftrik 
 vinces on this continent, I acquainted ro^nl^^'^ 
 Friends at our monthly meeting with 
 the exercife that lay upon me, with which 
 they having unity, were free to allow 
 me their certificate, and on the 19th of the 
 twelfth month 1760, I left my outward 
 habitation, and my daughter Sarah to 
 abide with my kind Friends Reuben and 
 Margaret Hains during my abfence ; 
 Iiaac Zane being my companion on this 
 journey, we fet forward accompanied by 
 many loving Friends feveral miles over 
 Schuylkill, when we parted in tender 
 love, and went home with our Friend Ro- 
 bert Valentine that night, and had a [olid 
 meeting the next day at his houfe in 
 Downing's-town ; after which we went 
 on and reached Lancafter, and the next 
 day were at their firft day meeting, which 
 tho' fmall, was attended with life and 
 fome degree of near unity ; Ifaac 
 
 Y\rhitelock 
 
[ 1.8 ] 
 
 i7<jo. Whitelock was fo kind as to conduce us id 
 Sufquehanna, and further to fevcral 
 meetings ; it was with great difScuky 
 through much ice that we croiTed over 
 this river, from thence we got to York- 
 town, and had the next day a tender edi- 
 fying meeting there, the day following we 
 crofTed a river through which our horfes 
 were fwam, and went to Newberry meet- 
 ing in the Redlands, which was a tender 
 comfortable fcafon ; from thence we got 
 on our way to Warrington, Huntington^ 
 andManalin, which were meetings I hope 
 moftly to folid advantage^ and fome of 
 them pretty iarge ; we came next to Pipe 
 creek, Bufh creek, and Monokefly in the 
 Maryland, government of Maryland, where we had 
 fmall meetings ; the firfl was a folid fea- 
 fon, the others tho' attended with hard la- 
 bour, I hope it was received in love ; af- 
 ter the lail meeting, we went forward 
 crofTing the river Patowmac into Virgi- 
 nia ; the next meetings -were Fairfax, 
 Goofe creek. Potts or the Gap, fome of 
 which v/ere largely favoured with folid 
 comfort and fatisfaclion, there appearing 
 many dear Friends vv'ith whom 1 had near 
 
 unity 
 
 m 
 
[ M9 ] 
 
 lenity in fpirit j from the lad place we i,6«. 
 travelled till we got over Shanondore-ri- 
 ver, and lodged at John Veftal's, where 
 we had a foiid feafon in the family ; a deep 
 fnovv falling that night made it the more 
 difficult for us to get forward the next 
 day to William Jolliff's beyond Opeckan, viiginh. 
 which after a long cold ride we reached, 
 and were received in love, and the next 
 day were at Hopwell meeting, being the 
 firfl day of the week, and at their Month- 
 ly-Meeting the day following, both which 
 were folid feafon s ; the next meeting was 
 at Maurice Reea's, in which there appeared 
 to be a neceffity for an amendment in the 
 way of truth ; from thence we came to 
 Back-creek, and the widow Lupton's 
 had two meetings, weighty to my fpirit, 
 and I hope to the edification of others ; 
 I thought there was a number of valuable 
 Friends in thefe parts ; we were alfo at 
 Wincheiler, and had a large meeting of 
 Friends and others, in the Court-houfe, 
 after it was ended, feveral perfons of note 
 not profeffing with us behaved in a very 
 loving friendly manner ; in going from 
 thence I poiFcfred fsveet peace in my own 
 S mind 
 
[ 120 J 
 
 S7<fc. mind and went to RobertHalns's, where we 
 Fusinia. rcftcd One day, and on firft day was at 
 the meeting at Crooked-run, to which 
 came many people who did not make 
 religious profeilion with us, and be- 
 haved with folid attention, and I hope it 
 ended to the honour of truth j — the next 
 day we went a great diftance from Friends, 
 paffing over rivers, creeks, and ice, and 
 over mountains, and a deal of troublefome 
 travelling, accompanied by Robert Hains 
 and Richard Ridgway, two hopeful young 
 men, to whom my fpirit was united in 
 tender love, we were hard fet to get en- 
 tertainment and lodging ; late at night 
 fome of us reached a fmall houfe, in v/hich 
 was a great family, who were gone to bed j 
 v/e were let into the houfe, which w^as 
 an open cold . place, the people were as 
 kind as we could exped, endeavouring 
 to provide us with lodging, but it was fo 
 cold I could not lay long, but got up and 
 fat by the fire great part of the night, and 
 to fecure our horfes they were put in a 
 little fquare penn, fcant of provender ; the 
 next morning, after fome friendly con- 
 verfation with the family, we fet forward, 
 
 and 
 
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 and came to John Douglafs's, and the nso. 
 next day had a large pretty good meet- Virginia. 
 ingat the faid Friend's houfe; from thence 
 we came to Camp-creek, Fork-creek, and 
 Jannito, and were at meetings, fome of 
 which were large, and in a good degree 
 attended with the fpring of life and power; 
 next day after the lafl: mentioned meeting 
 we crofled James-river and another river 
 not far diflant, and was at a meeting at 
 Amelia the day following, in which I had 
 fome comfort of mind, it was pretty larger 
 from John Johnfon's we travelled a great 
 diftance to South-river, and being over- 
 taken by the night were loft by taking a 
 wrong road, which occafioned us to tra- 
 vel many miles extraordinary, and were 
 hard fet to find any houfe, but by hearing 
 a horfes's bell we took to a little path, 
 which brought us juft to William Pane's, 
 and by calling he came to us, conducted to 
 his houfe, and was kind to us; after 
 feeding our horfes, guided us to Sarah 
 Linche's, and by the time we got there, it 
 was about half paft foiir o'clock in the 
 morning ; fhc-was a tender loving Friend, 
 who entertained us kindly ; we refted 
 
 a few 
 
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 1760. a few hours, and then went to their week 
 Virginia, day meeting, which was fmall but folid ;" 
 the next day we had a pretty large meet-^ 
 ing of Friends and others at the fame place, 
 in which tendernefs of heart appeared 
 among them ; the next day we went to 
 Goofe-creek, a long ride and a rough hilly 
 road, accompanied by feveral Friends, 
 and were at a meeting there on the firft 
 day of the w^eek, I believe to fome good 
 fervice ; that night we lodged at Peter 
 Holland's, laying down in one room like 
 a flock of fheep in a fold, being fixteen in 
 number with the Friend's family ; he was 
 a kind hearted man, and did what he 
 could to, accommodate us with houfe room 
 and otherwife, which 1 believe was to the 
 fatisfachion of our company, we had 
 here a folid meeting ; at the two laft meet- 
 ings there were feveral tender lately con- 
 vinced Friends ; from thence after near 
 two days ride and pafUng over Stanton- 
 river we came to Jofeph Colhns's, had 
 there a folid meeting and refted one day ; 
 after which we were at Banifler meeting, 
 where came many people, and I hope it 
 was a profitable feafon to a remnant ; we 
 
 went 
 
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 went from thence to Richard Kirby's and 1700. 
 had a large meeting, they appeared to be 
 a tender fceking people, and much in the 
 fpirit of love ; we then came near the river 
 Dan and lodged ; crofTed the ferry next 
 day to James Taylor's in North-CaroUna, n nth-Ca- 
 being many miles, and were overtaken 
 by the night before ^Ve reached the houfe, 
 we lodged there two nights, and had a 
 meeting at Eno, which was large and I 
 hope to edification, then we went home 
 with Jofeph Maddock and lodged, and 
 next had a meeting ac the Hawfields, and 
 the Spring, which tho' fmalll thought were 
 good meetings, and Friends glad to fee us ; 
 from Thomas Lindlay's, where we lodged, 
 we went to the Monthly-Meeting at Cane- . 
 creek, and were alfo at their liril day 
 meeting, which were large, but times of 
 fufFering to my mind ; from thence we 
 proceeded to Rocky-river, the Center, 
 and Deep-river, fome of which meetings 
 were large and I truft favoured with the 
 extending of God's love and merciful viii- 
 tation to the fouls of the people ; we alfb 
 had a comfortable foiid time at Richard 
 Eeafon's, whofe wife had been a valuable 
 
 fcrvant 
 
-i>,6o. fervant to the church, but was now grown 
 North-ca- . old and feeble and much confined through 
 infirmity of body ; but I thought lively 
 and fenfible in the befl things ; we were 
 like wife at the Quarterly-Meeting at New- 
 Garden, at their minifters meeting, and 
 that for bufinefs of thechurch, alfo at their 
 iirft day meeting ; the two laft were large 
 and weighty feafons, wherein the Divine 
 Prefence was witneffed to the refrelhment 
 of the folid minded ; — we were next at a 
 meeting at William Coxe*s, where were 
 a pretty many Friends ; it was attended 
 with hard labour, which Iwifh may not 
 be loft, for I truft it was honeftly difc barg- 
 ed among them ; we went forward to So- 
 lomon Coxe's and Cornelius Tyfe's, and 
 had a meeting at each place, to the laft of 
 ■which belonged feveral newly convinced 
 Friends and tender people, with whom I 
 had folid fatisfa6lion ; from hence we 
 went to Pee-Dee, accompanied by Jere- 
 miah Picket, lodged one night in the 
 woods on our way there, and had a labo- 
 rious meeting at this place, attended by a 
 confiderable number of people I thought 
 for this remote part of the world, which 
 
 had 
 
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 had a humbling rea.ch on fome who were i,^©^ 
 prefent I hope ; we lodged at William 
 Hall's, and from thence went to the Wa- 
 ter-Ree in South-Carolina, accompanied south-Ca- 
 by William Hall, Francis Clark, Jeremiah '^^^^^ 
 Picket, and Andrew Mormam, lodged 
 at Samuel Wiley's, had a tender broken 
 meeting at the meeting-houfe, much to 
 fatisfaclion and a pretty good time at the 
 houle of a Friend who was indifpofed ; 
 alfo a folid time with a number of Cataw- 
 ba Indians, and then returned to Pee-Dee ; 
 in going to and returning from this 
 place, we were two nights in the woods, 
 but faired pretty well, the weather being 
 fair and having proviiions for ourfelves 
 and horfes, and my mind nearly fupport- 
 ed, I enjoyed peace in the journey ; on 
 our return to Pee-Dee, we were at their 
 firft day meeting, vifited fome fick fami- 
 lies, and had a folid evening meeting at 
 Francis Clark's, where we lodged, and the 
 next day fat forward for Cape-Fear, and 
 in our way were one night in the woods, 
 and a great fnow falling, the weather was 
 difagreeble either to ftand or to lay down 
 before our fire ; next morning we fat for- 
 ward 
 
>7tJo. Vv^ard and got to Richard Bradley's at: 
 Cros-creek in Cape-Fear, where is a fmall 
 town lately built ; we had a meeting in it^ 
 to which came a pretty many people, fome 
 North-Ca- of whom Were Friends, and it was to 
 roiina. fome fatisfaclion ; our next meeting was 
 at the meeting-houfe at Dann's creek, 
 which was a laborious time, and I wifh it 
 may have a good effedt on the minds of 
 the people, for I truft they were faithful- 
 ly warned both on account of their floth- 
 fulnefs in the things of God, and the 
 things of this world ; from hence we 
 came to John Newberry's and lodged, 
 the next day \vent towards Upper-Fowl- 
 ing- creek, on Neufe-river, flopping in our 
 way at Jonathan Evans's, where we had a 
 tender time in the family, which I believe 
 was wxll received, altho' he did not make 
 profefiion with us -, his wife was a valuable 
 Friend, and I underfland had a gift in 
 the miniftry ; he conducted us feveral 
 miles on the way and parted with us in love ; 
 after we left this man's houfe we parted 
 with^ Jeremiah Picket and Francis Clark, 
 w^ho had accompanied us four hundred 
 miles J at night we flopt at a houfe to en- 
 quire 
 
rolina. 
 
 [ 1*7 ] 
 quire for entertainment, where was a wo- 
 man and feveral children, ilie gave us li- Noith-Ci- 
 berty for houfe room, and there being no 
 bed for us we lay on the floor, and it be- 
 ing cold and afnow falling, we were fomc- 
 times obliged to get to the fire fide to warm 
 us ; it was a trying time to myfpirit ; yet I 
 thought we v/ere better off than when in" 
 the woods and fnowafew nights bei^ore; 
 we came the next day to Thomas Coxe's, 
 where we had a meeting, and the people 
 warned to prepare for their final change, 
 • mortality founded aloud in thefe parts, 
 and feveral feemed to fpeak with a mourn- 
 ful voice, concerning the death both of 
 man and beaft. 
 
 After v7C crofTed Rock-fifh, Cape- 
 Fear, and Neufe rivers, we were accom- 
 panied by Richard Coxe to John Rad- 
 cliff's, and having a pretty large fatisfac- 
 tory meeting at Lower-Falling-creek, we 
 , came many miles accompanied by Mofes 
 RatclifFto James Rofs's, a dear Friend not 
 long convinced of the way of truth, who 
 did all he could to make us welcome, and 
 we had here a uniting relieving time in 
 T waiting 
 
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 1760. \vajting upon God, and after a meeting of 
 North-ca- rclicrious iervice at Henry Horn's in Edsr- 
 
 lolina. ^' . -^ ^ 
 
 comb on Tarr-river, and a folid time in 
 his family, the next day we rode many . 
 miles accompanied by James Rofs toMofes 
 Hall's and lodged, in whofe family I was 
 much comforted and united to fuch I be- 
 . lieve that kept their places in the blefied 
 truth ; alter an open tender meeting at 
 llich-fquare, and a near parting with fe- 
 veral Friends, we came to John Cowp- 
 land's, where we had a meeting to folid 
 advantage, and 1 hope profit to the peo-* 
 pie ; we then went to Thomas Cowpland's 
 and lodged, and the next day croiTed a 
 pretty large river, and after a long ride, 
 through a dirty tifefome road, we reached 
 Thomas Nevv'by's, who and his wife are 
 worthy kind Friends to the Lord's fervants 
 and particularly helpful to me in feveral 
 refpecls ; on the firfl; day of the week we 
 were at a meeting at Wells, which was 
 large, and I thought folidly favoured, 
 with the confolation of truth, and feveral 
 advices given forth in the love and fear of 
 God, and humble contrition of heart I 
 hope was ofTercd up before the Lord that 
 
 day 5 
 
rolina. 
 
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 day ; the two next meetings were Old- i7<5o. 
 Neck, and Little-river, both which were North-ca- 
 large, and in the openings of the gift of 
 life I had to difcharge that trufl which 
 I apprehended was required of me, and 
 found a choice number of loving Friends 
 hereaway, both old- and young, with 
 whom I had to rejoice in our Heavenly 
 Father's love ; we lodged at Thomas Ni- 
 cholfon's and went to the next meeting 
 at Simon's-creek and New-begun-creek, 
 which were large and folidly edifying, the 
 current of love and life running freely 
 among the people, to the watering the he- 
 ritage of God ; we were alfo at a Friend's 
 named Trueblood, where was a great ga- 
 thering of people, and the word of life 
 freely preached among them, they were 
 well behaved, and feveral parted from the 
 meeting in a fober friendly manner ; the 
 next m^eeting was over the river by Old- 
 Neck, when it was ended we returned, 
 and were at the burial of a child of Daniel 
 Saint, and had a folid meeting at his 
 houfe, from thence we came to Jofeph 
 New^by's and lodged, and the next day, 
 being the firfl of the week, we vv^erc at 
 ; ^' 2 Finey- 
 
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 ,750. Pincy -woods meeting, which was vtvf 
 North-ca- large and comforcably owned with life 
 and power ; from Thomas Newby's we 
 went to a diftant meeting, which waS' 2 
 hard fuffering time, we were alfo at the 
 Monthly-Meeting at Weils, which was ve- 
 ry large and to edification, being thelaft 
 meeting I was at in North-Carolina, after 
 which I parted with feveral Friends in 
 much love, and I hope many of thole op- 
 portunities will be remembred by the liv- 
 ing with my foul, and I vvifh it m^ay be 
 with thankfulnefs to the Lord, that is 
 worthy of all the praife, honour and glo- 
 ry ! 
 
 VircTinia. ^^ camc ncxt day into Virginia, and' 
 
 were at a meeting at Sommerton, which 
 was to fome fatisfaclion ; the next was at 
 Lazarus Johnfon's, from whence we went 
 to John Denfon's and lodged, and the 
 day following were at a meeting at Black- 
 creek, which was attended with folid in- 
 llrudion, a confiderable number of Friends 
 belonging to the fame ; we then came to 
 James Stanton's and Jofeph Weft's^ and 
 had meetings, to the laft of which came 
 
 a 
 
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 a colonel of the county, and a confidera- 17/jc, 
 ble number of people, and the good pow- Virginia- 
 er of truth prevailed among us that day, 
 which I hope was of fervice ; then pafling 
 over Notawa ferry we came to James Jor- 
 dan's and lodged, and from thence to the 
 Weftern-branch Monthly-Meeting, at 
 which were many people and an open time ; 
 the next meetings we went to were at 
 Rafconeck, and Chucatuck, which laft I 
 was informed had been one of the largell 
 meetins^s in Viro-inia, but is now reduced 
 to two or three families, and things were 
 at a low ebb among them, the other lome- 
 what open, and attended by feveral who 
 did not profefs .with Friends ; from James 
 Denfon's we came over Nanfemund-river 
 to Samuel Fitzrandal's and lodged, and 
 on the feventh and lirft days of the week, 
 we were at the Spring Yearly-Meeting at 
 Nanfemund, which I hope was in the main 
 v/ell and fomewhat large, confidering the 
 feafon, which was wet ; we were at Eliza- 
 beth Burleigh's one night, where we had 
 a folid evening meeting ; when the Year- ' 
 ly meeting was over, we went home with 
 Samuel Jordan, fpent a little time wdth 
 
 him. 
 
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 ,y^o. I^ii^j then went with Thomas Newby tO 
 Virginia. Jofeph Scott's and lodged, and the next 
 day v/ere at a meeting at William Holio- 
 well's, that gave me feme eafe of mind, 
 lodged at Jacob CornwaH's, and the next 
 day were at Surry meeting, which was 
 large, and attended moiUy by people not 
 profeffing with us, who behaved foberly, 
 and I believe it was a profitable feafon 
 and ended well ; the next was the Month- 
 ly-Meeting at Black- water, that part for 
 worfhip was large, and the good prefence 
 and power of the Lord prevailed am.ong 
 us to the uniting our hearts to each other, 
 and I thought the meeting for bufinefs 
 might have been well, had not worldly 
 matters been brought in among them ; 
 from Hanflem Bayley's we went to Bur- 
 leigh meeting, which was large and folid ; 
 from thence we came to Glofter Hunni- 
 • cut's, and had a large meeting, moftly of 
 people who did not profefs with Friends, 
 which was owned with Divine Strength 
 and Power, wherein I had comfort of 
 mind ; from thence we came to- Edward 
 Stabler's and lodged, and on the firfl day 
 of the week had a very large meeting at 
 
 Pcterfburg, 
 
i: '33 1 
 
 Peterfburg, to which came a great niim- nsc 
 ber of people from the town and country, viigmia. 
 and many Friends a confiderable diftance, 
 and tiirough the Lord's helping hand liis 
 Great Name was praifed, who is worthy 
 for ever ! the next large meeting was at 
 the burial of an antient Friend near Wi- 
 panoak, it v/as held in an orchard, wms an 
 awfulfolid time andof brokennefs of heart 
 among the people ; the next was at Wil- 
 liam Butler's at the marriage of his daugh- 
 ter, where were many people, and the 
 meeting wasfatisfaclory in a good degree^ 
 from hence we returned to Edward Sta- 
 bier's and ftaid one night ; after which we 
 went forward and crolTed James-river ac- 
 companied by our kind Friend John Plea- 
 fants and his wife, who took us to their 
 houfe and gave us a kind welcome, and 
 were the next day at Curl's meeting, which 
 was large tho' not many Friends, it was a 
 laborious time, things being low as to the 
 growth of truth ; after this meeting we 
 came to John Pleafant's, kinfman to the 
 laft mentioned John, and lodged onenight, • 
 who we had met with in North-CaroHna, 
 ^nd w^as a loving Friend and brother 
 
 to 
 
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 t-jso. to US, was with us at many meetingSy 
 Virguua. and his company valuable and fer vice- 
 able to me, and my fpirit was nearly 
 united to him ; from his houfe we went to 
 White-Oak-Sv^amp meeting, v/hich was 
 large and to good fatisfaclion ; the next 
 day we were at Wyanoak meeting, where 
 came a colonel and many people of note, 
 both Friends and others that behaved fober, 
 and the meeting ended well ; from thence 
 we went to Skimanone, and in our way 
 crolTedChicahomoRy with John Pleafants, 
 who had been our companion in feveral 
 places, and another Friend that were our 
 y guides, and on the firfl day of the week 
 
 were at a meeting at James Bates's where 
 came a large number of people not of our 
 fociety, and many Friends from a confidera- 
 bledillance, and I hope it Vv^asa time of pro- 
 fit and edification, for which my foul had 
 caufe to be thankful to the Mafter of our 
 alTemblies j we had alfo a folid tender 
 time the fame evening at Fleming Bates's, 
 when things were fpoken to in the fpring 
 of life and power, and our hearts were 
 united together in gofpel fellowfliip ; the 
 next day we came a great diftance to 
 
 Robert 
 
• t 135 3 
 
 "Robert Ellifon's and lodged, and the day i^d. 
 following were at Black-creek meeting, Virginia. 
 which was large and a w^eighty laborious 
 time, and altho* I had hard labour I pof- 
 ieffed peace of mind ; the next meeting 
 was at Chicahomony-Swamp, at which 
 were many people not of our perfuaiion, 
 and it was a folid good opportunity ; from 
 thence we came to Jofeph Parfon's, where 
 we had a meeting in his barn, which I 
 hope tended to fome good fervicc, there 
 being a pretty many people prefent ; the 
 next meeting was at Cedar-creek, where 
 came feveralthat were reputed great men, 
 and many people, Friends and others ; it 
 was a folid time, which afforded fweet 
 peace to my mind ; we went from thence 
 to Micajah Terrell's, Samuel Hargrave's, 
 and John Chegle's, and were at their firfl: 
 day meeting at Caroline, which was ve- ' 
 
 ry large, and flrength afforded to eafe my 
 burden that I had long borne towards this 
 part of the world, and was I hope an 
 awakening time to fome then prefent ; af- 
 ter it ended I parted affedionately with 
 feveral dear Friends, it being the lafl meet- 
 ing in Virginia, only a folid feafon at a 
 U' Friend's 
 
C 1^6 1 
 
 ,76r. Friend's houfe where welodged, then went 
 forward with Micaj ah Terrell for the Year- 
 ly-Meeting at Weit-river in Maryland. 
 
 Maryland. We crofTed Rappahanock and Potow- 
 mack rivers, and another ferry, and got 
 to the ClifTts to William Harris's, who re- 
 ceived us kindly, after along wearifome 
 ride ; the next day we had a meeting at 
 the ClifTts, atwhich were many people, it 
 w^as a folid time and I hope the witnefs in 
 fome was reached y we were alfo at a meet- 
 ing at Herring-creek, which was fmall 
 and I was doubtful almofl lifelefs as to the 
 true zeal for Divine Worfhip, which gave 
 me pain of heart among them ; the next 
 day we came to Philip Thomas's at Wefl- 
 river, and remaining there, attended the 
 Yearly-Meeting, which lafled feveral days ; 
 it was large and greatly favoured with the 
 vifitation of God's love, through Jefus 
 Chrift, to the people, and was an uniting 
 time to the faithful ; when this meeting 
 ended, my companion Ifaac Zaneleft me, 
 in order to return home; I went to Jo- 
 fcph Richardfon's and dined, and then to 
 Tilit my aunt Mary Henderfon,my father's 
 
 ilfter3. 
 
[ ^37 ] 
 
 fiiler, whom I had not feen for feveral 1751. 
 years, and thought had been dead, until Maryland. 
 a Friend informed me at the time of this 
 Yearly- Meeting of her being living; I 
 ftaid there one night, and altho' fhe did 
 not profefs with us, being of the church of 
 England fo called, I believe was a religi- 
 ous woman, and of good repute *, fhe was 
 glad to fee me, 1 thought had a refpecl 
 for Friends, and parted with me in a kind 
 tender manner, and not long after de- 
 parted this life.o 
 
 I w E N T to a meeting a few miles from 
 thence, which was folid, and from it 
 home with Gerrard Hopkins, and the next 
 day with feveral Friends to Indian-fpring 
 meeting, which v/as to good fatisfadion, 
 lodged at Richard Snowdon's, and was 
 next at Sandy- fpring meeting, Vv^here 
 came Friends from feveral diftant places, 
 and it was a folid time ; from James Brooks's 
 I went home with Henry Pierpoint, and 
 was the next day at Elkridge^ which was 
 a large meeting, and faithful labour iu 
 gofpel love bellowed among them, which 
 I willi may have the defired effecl, lodged 
 U 2 at 
 
c 138 : 
 
 ij6i. at Jofeph Pierpoint's, and was the next 
 Maryland, day at Patapfco meeting, which J hope 
 was in the main well ; then went with 
 Samuel Hopkins to his houfe, and the 
 next day to Gunpowder meeting, where 
 the living fountain was I thought in fome 
 meafure unfealed to edification and com- 
 fort 'y I alfo went to the meeting at the 
 Little-falls, at which were many people, 
 and the good power of truth prevailed 
 among us I hope to folid fatisfaclion ; 
 lodged that night at Henry Wilfon's, and 
 the next day was at Bulh-river meeting, 
 many Friends being there, it was a time 
 of comfort to my mind ; went home with 
 James Rigby and his wife, ftaid one night, 
 and next day attended a large meeting 
 at Deer-creek, which was an awful heart- 
 tendering feafon, wherein the truly living, 
 with my foul, had caufe to afcribe thankf- 
 givings and humble praife to the Lord 
 our God, who is worthy with his beloved 
 fon Chrift Jefus, the only head of the 
 true church, both now and forever more. 
 Amen! then paflins: over Sufquehan- 
 
 Pcnnfylva- 1 ? . ^ r ir c 
 
 nia. na ferry, the next day bems: the nrlt ot 
 
 dngham. the wcck, I went to AVefl-Nottmgham 
 
 meeting, 
 
L ^39 ] 
 
 meeting, which was fomcwhat large and x7(Ji.' 
 folid, and got to William Jackfon's and Pennfyiva- 
 ftaid the night, and the day following, 
 being the 25th of the fifth month, 1761, 
 through the kindnefs and wonderful pro- 
 vidence of the Almighty, that had been 
 merciful and good in preferving and 
 helping me through this trying journey, 
 I arrived at my own habitation, and found F^iladd; 
 
 ^ , phia. 
 
 my daughter and things well as to my own 
 concerns, and a kind reception with my 
 dear Friends, who I was glad to fee once 
 more, and enjoyed a fhare of peace to 
 my own foul ; may all praife, honour, 
 and glory be given to him the great and 
 awful Majefty in Heaven ! 
 
 Being favoured with health I was en- i?^:^,^ 
 abied to perform my outward employ- 
 ment with diligence, and at fometimes 
 vifited the meetings of Friends in Penn- 
 fylvania and New-Jerfey, where in feve- 
 ral places we were owned with our Hea- 
 venly Father's love, to coir.fort and edifi- 
 cation ; and a religious concern reviving 
 in my mind, that Ihadfelt for a confider- 
 able time, to vilit Friends on the Eaftern 
 
 fliore 
 
C 140 J 
 
 5563. fliore of Maryland, and the three lower 
 counties in the territories of this province, 
 having the unity of my dear brethren at 
 home, I fat out on the 3d day of the lirft 
 month, 176^, being the firll: day of the 
 week, and came to Chefter, accompanied 
 by feveral dear Friends of our city, and 
 was at a meeting there, which was a 
 comfortable tender feafon of gofpel love, 
 and the fame evening had a large laborious 
 Wilming- meeting at Wilmington, in which I hope 
 ttttt^ I ^y^g clear as to my duty among them ; 
 
 the next day accompanied by Thomas Ship^ 
 ley (who was my companion in this jour- 
 ney) came to Lewis Clothier's and lodged, 
 and I thought our being there was of fome 
 Eastern fervice, from this Friends we went to 
 ^'kTJf ^^" SalTafras meeting, where came a number 
 of people, with whom I hope the power 
 of truth had a tender reach on the hearts 
 of feveral, we were next at Cecil meeting, 
 in which the fpring of life was I thought 
 opened to folid comfort among us ; we 
 had the next day a meeting at Chefter 
 meeting-houfe, attended with hard la- 
 bour, and one in the evening at James 
 Claypool's in Chefter-town, which was 
 
 folid ; 
 
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 folid ; from thence we came to Queen i^c^^ 
 Ann's, and had a large fatiiifadlory meet- Maryland. 
 ing, in which I had Tome relief of mind, 
 and I thought was a time of tender vifita- 
 tion to the people ; we then went to Ifaac 
 Turner's and lodged, having in the even- 
 ing a comfortable fitting in the family, 
 they were kind and friendly ; from thence 
 to Tuckaho, where we had a bleffed meet- 
 ing, and on the following lirft day of the 
 week were at Tredhaven, which meeting 
 was folid and edifying ; from hence we 
 went to Jofeph Bartlet's, where was a 
 large exemplary family and no flaves, 
 and had a good folid fitting ; the next 
 day had a large open meeting at the Bay- 
 fide, mpftly of people not of our perfuaii- 
 on, which I hope ended well ; after lodg- 
 ing at John Kemp's, w^e came the next 
 day to Francis Neai's, and the day fol- 
 lowing attended a large meeting at Little- 
 Choptank, both of Friends and others, to 
 fome fatisfadion ; the next day we crofT- 
 ed Choptank river, and wctq at Marftiy- • 
 creek meeting, which was a trying time, 
 both on account of the coldnefs of the 
 weather and a fuffering cold houfe to fit 
 
 in ; 
 
C 142 ] 
 
 ,,53. in ; we lodged that night at William Ed- 
 Lower mundfon's, and the next day fat off for 
 
 counties of . • 1 1 -n* • • 
 
 Pcni.fyi- Lewis-tov/n, accompanied by Benjamin 
 Berry, and after a long ride got to Samu- 
 el Pvowland's, who received us kindly, and 
 was helpful in getting a large meeting for 
 us in the court-houfe in the town ; in 
 which I trufl: they were faithfully warned 
 and advifed in the love of the gofpel, and 
 in vifiting that place I enjoyed fatisfacli- 
 on ; — from thence wx wxnt to Cold- 
 Spring, which meeting was attended by 
 many people, and I thought fome revi- 
 vings of life therein ; the next meeting 
 was called the Three- runs ^ which was an 
 awful heart-tendering feafon, and many 
 people at it ; we were next at Mother- 
 kiln's where came Friends from feveral 
 parts, and divers other people, and it was 
 a folid time ; the day following we were 
 at Little-creek meeting, Vv'hich was a 
 comfortable feafon, the following meet- 
 ings were at Duck-creek, and George's* 
 creek, and attended with hard labour ; 
 but I hope of fervicc to ftir up the pure 
 mind in fome ; from my kind Friend 
 Jacob Janey'sjl came with feveral towards 
 
 Okesflian, 
 
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 Okesdian, and on our way flopt at a i^c,. 
 houle where were feveral in family, with CheRer 
 
 county. 
 
 w^hom we had a folid opportunity, which 
 I believe srave fatisfaclion to them as it did 
 to US ; on our way there parting with 
 my companion Thomas Shipley, I came 
 near OkesQian and lodged, and w^as the 
 next day at a meeting there, which was 
 a fufFering time to my fpirit ; then 
 •went to the Quarterly-Meeting at Lon- 
 dongrove, where were Hannah Harris and 
 Elizabeth Wilkinfon, two w^orthy Friends 
 from Old-England ; the meeting was very 
 large and I hope of fervice ; from thence 
 took divers meetings in Chefter-county, 
 fome of which were large and attended 
 with relieving help, in which I enjoyed 
 much comfort and unity among Friends, 
 as I viiited the feveral particular meetings, 
 which were Kennet, Center, Birming- 
 ham, the Forks of Brandywine, Weil 
 and Eafl Cain, Nantmil, Pikcland, Uwcli- 
 land, Goflien, Newtown, Middletown, 
 and Providence ; to the lafl of which 
 came (my fon-in-law) Benedi^ Dorfey, 
 with whom I came home to my habitation, phu.j.i, 
 in the enjoyment of a iliare of peace ; p^'^^- 
 X havin<? 
 
[ 144 ] 
 
 ,763. having viflted the afHicled, and fevera! 
 Friend's families, and I truft faithfully 
 laboured, travelling through cold and 
 hardihips and fometimes deep probations 
 of fpirit ; but have had reverend caufe to 
 be humbly thankful to my bleiTed Lord 
 and Mailer, who greatly helped I hope 
 to his own praife, to whom be it afcribecj 
 for ever more ! 
 
 l^6:^, On the 7th day of the fourth months 
 
 Bucks 1764, with the unity of my Friends at 
 
 county, ' * ^ ■ : 
 
 peuiifyiva- homc, I weut towards Buckingham, was 
 
 nia. 
 
 the next day at that meeting, with Ifrael 
 and John Pemberton and Jofliua Emlen, 
 which v/as large and to fome fatisfaclion ; 
 after this meeting, Jofhua Emlen being 
 my companion, we proceeded to King- 
 New-jei- -xvood in Ncw-Jcrfcy, guided by Samuel 
 Eaftburn, lodged at Robert Large's, and 
 the next day had a large meeting at this 
 place to edification and comfort ; from 
 thence to Richard Lundy's, and after a 
 ftay of two nights, were at a meeting in 
 his houfe, where was a number of 
 tender hearted youth and others, in 
 which the Lord was pleafcd to favour us 
 
 with 
 
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 v;Ith his blefled prcfcncc to faUi^faclion ; 1764, 
 the faid Friend informed us that he Neu- 
 had feventy children and grand cliildren, ''^^ ^ * 
 fome of whom were valuable Friends ; 
 this place was called the Great-Meadows j 
 the next meeting was near Pawlings- 
 kiln, in which a remnant w^as broken 
 and contrited before the Lord, and I hope 
 it was a time of Divine viiitation to 
 thofe w^ho were prefent ; from thence 
 we went near the head of the waters at 
 the Drov/ned Lands (10 called) lodged 
 at Elijah Pollard's, and nc::t day behig 
 the firil of the week, had a large meet- 
 ing at his houfe, where came a mix- 
 ture of people as to religious profeflion, 
 and the Lord was graciouily plcafed to ap- 
 pear amxong us, and l underllood that 
 fome acknowledged to the truch, for 
 which my foul had caufe to be thankful, 
 it being a lov/ time to miy mind before the 
 fitting of this meeting ; we came from 
 thence and lodged at Richard Gardner's, 
 where we had a m'zclin^ the next day, at 
 which there was a ferjeant of tlie arm.y,' . 
 who, after the meeting, v/as in company 
 v/ith us m.any miles on our v/ay tov/aixis 
 X 2 North- 
 
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 ,754. North-river, and confeffed to die principle 
 of Truth as profefled by us, and 1 thought 
 that ii he would refign his office as to out- 
 ward war, and be faithful to knowledge, he 
 mishtmake a foldier for Chriil ; I found 
 his fpirit near to mine in many things re- 
 lating to Truth, and parted wdth him in 
 love ; we lodged that night at an inn, and 
 the next day crofied North-river ferry 
 called FiHi-kiln, and came to Jofhua Sher- 
 man's, at whofe Iioufe we had a folid 
 tender meeting the next day, of many 
 Nevv-Yoik toeoole. Friends and others : then came to 
 
 govern- ••■•'■ 
 
 meat. Oblong, lodgcd at Benjamin Ferrifs's, 
 
 and the next day were at that Monthly- 
 Meeting, which altho' the day was very 
 flormy, vv^as attended by a number of 
 'Friends, and I thought v/ith unity and 
 fatisfaclion ; the next day we came to 
 John Floweg's and had a pretty good op- 
 portunity \vitl\ many people ; the day 
 following had a long ride to Saiifoury in 
 
 Concciicut. Conecfcicut, lodged at Jofliua Whitt's, 
 and on the iirft day of the week were at a 
 meeting in that place, where came a num- 
 ber of profeiTors (but few of our fociety) 
 among whom we had an open comforta- 
 ble 
 
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 ble meeting; from hence v/e proceeded 1754, 
 the next day towards a phice called the New-\ork 
 
 n • 1 goverii- 
 
 Nme-Partners, Itoppmg on the way at a ment. 
 Friend's houfe to dine, had a folid time in 
 the family, and the day following were at 
 a meeting at the Nine-Partners, which 
 was large, and Truth reigned in a good 
 degree among us, I hope to the praife of 
 the Mailer of our aflemblies ; the next we 
 palTed. over Wapping-creek, had a 
 meeting at a Friend's houfe, v/here came 
 many people, and it was a heart-tender- 
 ing time ; the next place where we had 
 two meetings, was Swego, the firfl of 
 which was fmall, but a comfortable time ; 
 the other was large, and I thought the 
 word of life prevailed in a good degree 
 among us, for which a remnant had caufe 
 to be united in praife and thankfgiving to 
 the Author of Life and Power ; from 
 thence we went towards Oblong, and the 
 next day viiited our two antient Friends 
 John Howeg and v/ife, vv-here came feve- 
 ral of their neighbours and fat down with 
 us, and the Divine Prefencc appcare-d 
 among us in a powerful manner in a lit- 
 tle mean cottage, wherein my fpirit was 
 
 rcfredied 
 
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 17^4. i*efre{liecl before the Lord, :ind lud ii kind 
 reception with thofe prcfent ; we were 
 next at Oblong meeting, at which was a 
 large number of people, wiio were faith- 
 fully warned and advifed to keep in the 
 fear of God, and Truth fcemed to have a 
 reach on the hearts of fome j from thence 
 we went to Dobfon Wheeler's at New 
 Coned^icut. Milford in Coneclicut, and the day fol- 
 lowing were at a large meeting in the 
 meeting-houfe, where was a marriage, 
 and a laborious time to my fpirit among 
 the people, but I hope of fome fcrvice, 
 their behaviour being in the main as well 
 2S might be expeclcd, being moilly of 
 other profeiiions ; we returned to Oblong, 
 and were at the Vv'eek day meeting, 
 which was a time of poverty and fuffering 
 in fpirit in fome degree ; we flaid their 
 ()iiartcrly-Meeting of miniftcrs and that 
 for bufmefs, alfo their hrll day meeting, 
 the lafl of which was very largc^ and in 
 a sfood der>Tee owned v/ith the befi: or help, 
 I hope to the glory of God, and was a 
 time of loving parting wiih a number of 
 dear Friends living thereaway ; we went 
 home with Samuel Field, and had a meet- 
 ing 
 
[ M9 ] 
 
 ing at a place called Peach-pond, which 1764. 
 was pretty hirge and folid ; and altho' a 
 great part of this journey thus far was 
 mountainous, the roads ftony, and wea- 
 rifome and trying to liody and fpirit, yet 
 throuarh the Lord's lovins: kindnefs and 
 tender mercy, I at times enjoyed peace of 
 mind ; being enabled to perform in this 
 hard travel what I apprehended to be re- 
 quired of me by him who is w*orthy of 
 praife and thankfgiving for evermore ! 
 the two next meetings were Amawack New- York 
 and Shapaquah, which were large, and I mem" 
 hope well in the main ; from thence we 
 came towards a place called the Purchafe, 
 lodged at a Friend's houfe, and in the 
 night was a time of rain, lightning, and 
 thunder, by which, fome diftance from 
 this place, as we v/ere told, a poor black 
 ilave was killed, concerning: whom two 
 brothers had been difputing their right of 
 property, and one of them had faid that 
 he would cut him in two but he would 
 have his half of him ; but through the per- 
 miilion of Divine Providence his time was 
 fhortencd, and they mufl re/ign their 
 claim to him ; the next day we attended 
 
 the 
 
[ ISO ] 
 
 a 7^4. the meeting at the Purchafe, which was 
 large, alfo vifited a family in affliction, 
 both which were foHd feafons ; lodged 
 that evening at Edward Bm^ling's, and 
 had a folid fitting in that Friend's hopeful 
 family of young people ; our next meet- 
 ing was at Mamarineck, then at Weft- 
 Chefter, where came Samuel Emlen jun, 
 John Haydock, and HaydockBowne from 
 New- York to fee us, their company af- 
 forded much comfort to my fpirit ; this 
 meeting being attended with life and near 
 unity, made it a comfortable edifying fea- 
 fon ; we had the company of Matthew 
 Franklin and William Mott at moft of the 
 meetings to this place from Oblong, two 
 examplary Friends, and ferviceable in the 
 miniflry ; from hence we pafTed over 
 Xong- White-ftone ferry to Long-ifland with fe- 
 ^'^ veral Friends, and Matthew Franklin 
 took my companion and me to his houfe, 
 where we had a kind reception ; the next 
 meeting we were at was Flufliing, and 
 they were warned againfl the ways of un- 
 righteoufnefs, and the well-minded a- 
 mong them I hope encouraged ; the next 
 day WQ vifited feveral Friends in aiHiclion, 
 
 one 
 
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 $>ne of whom was Clement Willis, a pious tj64, 
 tender woman, at Bethpage, who feemed Lo"g- 
 almoft helplefs as to bodily ftrength, and 
 told us flie had been in that condition 
 thirty-one years, her frame of mind was 
 heavenly, and appeared to be well con- 
 tented in the will of Divine Providence ; 
 the day following we attended Bethpage 
 meeting, which was large and folid, we 
 were alfo at Setacket, and had a large good 
 meeting ; from thence we went to Samu'- 
 el Willis's and lodged ; the meetings fol- 
 lowing were at Matinicock, Oyfter-bay, 
 and Jerico, which were large and folid fea- 
 fons ; from Jerico we went to Wilham 
 Lime's and lodged, and on the firft day 
 of the week was at Weftbury meetings 
 which was very large, and attended with 
 hard clofe labour, but I hope in the gift of 
 life and power that God giveth ; we came 
 that evening to Benjamin Duefenbury's, 
 and were the next day at a meeting at Ja- 
 cob Mott's, which was large and an aw- 
 ful feafon ; we then went to the widow 
 Pearfal's, who was an antient Friend, and 
 a family I had long been acquainted with, 
 whom I had reafon to remember in near 
 y fellovviliip 
 
I 152 3 
 
 yr<j4. fellovvfhip in the church ; after a meeting. 
 
 f ong- the next day at Cow-neck, we went home 
 with Matthew Franklin, and attended 
 the Yearly-Meeting at Fluihing, which 
 was very large, and I triift in a good de- 
 gree owned with the prefence of God ; 
 Jolhua Emlen left me before the conclufi- 
 on of this meeting, in order to return home, 
 on account of his fon being to embark 
 foon for England ; when the meeting end- 
 ed, I went with feveral Friends to Rich- 
 ard Hallett's, and the next day crofled 
 the Narrows to Staten-iiland, and thence 
 
 ^Sr "^^^^^ Jofeph Shotwell to his home, and 
 
 after having meetings at Rahway, Wood- 
 bridge, and Plainfield, tofome fatisfacli- 
 on, accompanied by him and his wife 
 over Amboy ferry, we went to Nathan 
 Tilton's, and from thence to Shrewfburyy 
 where I attended two large meetings, 
 which I hope were in the main well ; af- 
 ter the laft I went home with James Tuck- 
 er, my father's coulin, and ftaid one night, 
 and the next day himfelf and fon, and Jo- 
 feph Wardel conducted me to Squan, 
 ' where we had a large meeting, which wa& 
 an open folid tender feafon, fomewhat re- 
 lieving 
 
1 153 3 
 lieving to my fpirit ; lodged at Thomas Til- ^c^, 
 ton's, who the next day accompanied me 
 to Amos MiddIetoR*s, in or near Burling- 
 ton county, and the day after, through 
 the good providence of God, my alone 
 helper through Chrift in the way of true 
 obedience to his bleiTed will, I s^ot home 
 to my outward habitation, being the 7th phia!^' 
 day of the lixth month, 1764. 
 
 On the 3d day of the fecond month, i-j^^^ 
 I J 66, after our Quarterly-Meeting in Phi- Pennfyha- 
 iadelphia, I fat out from home with feve- 
 ral Friends towards Haverford, lodged 
 that night at George Smith's, and was 
 the next day at a large meeting at Haver- 
 ford, to fatisfaclion, and then proceeded cheftcr 
 to the meetings at Newtown, Radnor, '^°'^'^^^' 
 and Goihen, which were large, and at- 
 tended with life and the Lord's good 
 Prefence and near unity with Friends ; af- 
 terwards I attended the Quarterly-Meet- 
 ing of minifters at Concord, in which 
 my mind was deeply engaged for the 
 maintaining of gofpel love and unity, 
 and real fellowfliip among minifters and 
 Elders, and the Lord was pleafed to give 
 Y 2 me 
 
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 1766. me an open door, that I believe the 
 chefter labouF was Well received ; and on the 
 Pcnnfyiva- firft day of the week, I went to Birming- 
 ham meeting, which was large, and they 
 were faithfully warned in the fear of 
 God y the next day I attended the Quar- 
 terly-Meeting for the affairs of the church 
 at Concord, which was very large, and 
 owned with the beft of favour ; after 
 this meeting I attended meetings at Ken- 
 net, Wilmington, Center, and Chichef- 
 ter, fome of which were very large, and 
 the Lord's heart- tendering power and pre- 
 fence much favoured moft of thofe oppor^ 
 tunities, and Friends were affectionate 
 and kind ; after the laft meeting I went 
 home with Benjamin Sharplefs and wife, 
 and lodged at his houfe, and the next 
 night at Nathan YarnaPs, with whole 
 hopeful family in the way of truth, I had 
 comfort of mind ; the day following be- 
 ing the firft of the week, was at Middle- 
 town meeting, which was large. Friends 
 coming from feveral diftant places, and 
 through Divine favour, it appeared to be a 
 folemn time, dined at Thomas Minfhall's, 
 and had I hope a profitable fitting with 
 
C 155 1 
 
 a number of dear young people and others, ifc^. 
 and was the next day at Providence meet- 
 ing, which was owned with the virtue of 
 life and power in waiting upon God ; from 
 thence I went to WilHam Feirs, where 
 lived his aged father Thomas Fell, who 
 had been blind feveral years, and lately 
 again received his fight, whom I thought 
 to be a living Friend in the Truth, and 
 I hope in favour with the Lord ; the next 
 day I was at a large meeting at Spring- 
 field, in which I truft they were faithfully 
 warned and advifed in gofpel love, I lodg- 
 ed that night at Jonathan Maris's, came 
 the next day to the Valley, and the day 
 following had a meeting there, to which 
 feveral Friends came from difl:ant places, 
 and it was a time of comfort to my mind, 
 then went home with Ifrael Jacobs, crofT- phta^ 
 ed the river Schuylkill at Richardfon's ford, "''''''^^ 
 and attended a meeting the next day at 
 New-Providence, v/here came many peo- 
 ple, it was a time of deep and clofe labour, 
 but I hope tended to edification ; then 
 went to John Jones's and lodged, and was 
 at Gwyned (or North- Wales) meeting on 
 the firft day of the week, which was 
 
 large. 
 
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 ,,5<j. large, and an open comfortable feafon, I 
 Bucks then went to John Child's and ftaid two 
 county. j^-gj^^g^ ^jjj fj.^^ thence to a large meet- 
 ing at Plumfted, in which they were 
 warned in the Lord's fear, and it appear- 
 ed to* be a time of profit to a folid rem- 
 nant ; after this I went to the Quarterly- 
 Meeting at Wright's-townin Bucks coun- 
 ty, of miniflers and for the difcipline, the 
 laft of which was large, and each owned 
 with near unity among Friends, and gof- 
 pel labour extended I hope to good pur- 
 pofe, Mordecai Yarnal and John Pember- 
 ton being alfo at this meeting ; the next 
 meeting was at Makefield, which w^as 
 large, and comfortably owned with life 
 and power in the Lord's ftrength, and was 
 a folemn awful feafon ; went to fee a fick 
 Friend, where many Friends met, it was 
 an opportunity of much tendernefs and 
 brokennefs of heart, wherein I had relief 
 and fatisfadion ; lodged that night at 
 Mahlon Kirkbride's, and the next day 
 Neww croiTed the river Delaware near Trenton 
 ^* with fome other Friends, altho' a very 
 rough pafTage, we were mercifully pre- 
 ierved, for which my heart has been 
 
 thankful 
 
C 157 ] 
 
 thankful to the Lord, lodged that night j^g^ 
 at William Morris's, and on the firfl day New 
 of the week was at Trenton meeting, 
 where afTcinbled a pretty many people. 
 Friends and others, and altho' it was a 
 hard fuiFcring time to my fpirit, wherein 
 I was deeply baptized in that place, I had 
 fome comfort in the company of fome 
 Friends thereaway ; I came from thence 
 and lodged at Marmaduke Watfon's, and 
 the next night at John Syke's, and the day 
 following had a meeting in Bordentown, 
 to fatisfacVion in a good degree ; then 
 went to Samuel Satterthwait's, and had 
 a meeting the next day at Mansfield, at 
 which coniidering the fhort notice, and 
 it being a wet day, there were many peo- 
 ple, and we had a folid feafon together j 
 from thence went to Benjamin Field's, 
 and the day following attended the 
 Monthly-Meeting at Crofwicks, which 
 was large, and an open edifying feafon in 
 the meeting for worfliip ; then to Peter 
 Harvey's, and the next day went to a 
 meeting at Old-Springfield, which was' 
 large, and feveral things ran through me 
 in the fpring of life to aged and youth, as 
 
 advice 
 
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 i^/i<j. advice in near love to the caufe of Truth ^^ 
 Ne\v-jer- and iOY the welfare of God's people ; the 
 
 fey. , I r 7 
 
 day follovv^ng I had a meeting at Mans- 
 field-neck, where came many people, and 
 it was a time of good fatisfaclion ; the 
 next day was at a large meeting at New- 
 Springfield, which was attended with clofe 
 labour, and faithful v/arning extended to 
 the people, then went to Jofeph Lamb's, 
 where I was fomewhat detained by a fi:orm 
 of fnow, v/hen it moderated I got forward, 
 ■with my beloved Friend William Jones, to 
 Little-EsfSf-harbour, to our kind Friend 
 
 CO ^ 
 
 John Ridgway's, and the day following 
 with him vifitedfeveralfamilies of Friend's, 
 and went to fee Chriftian Ofborn, an anti- 
 entFriend reckoned to be upwards of nine* 
 ty years of age, who was mother and grand- 
 mother to many that were valuable in the 
 way of Truth, we had a tender time in 
 the family, I hope to fome profit and edi- 
 fication ; the day after, I attended the 
 Monthly-Meeting at Little-Egg-harbour, 
 which was in a good degree owned with 
 Divine favour, and the life of the gofpel 
 power, and many people w^ere prefent ; 
 being prevented by flormy weather fome 
 
 days 
 
New- 
 Jerfey. 
 
 L "^59 ] 
 
 days from crofling the river to Great-Egg- x^c<;s 
 harbour, till the firil day of the v/eek, I 
 then came with divers Friends to the 
 Upper-meeting on that river, which was 
 large for that place, and tended to edifi- 
 x:ation and comfort j after which went 
 home with Japhet Leeds, and he accom- 
 panied me that evening to Jofeph Mapes's, 
 where we lodged, and the next day were 
 at a meeting near his houfe -, from thence 
 proceeded to Cape-May, in company with 
 fome Friends, lodged at Ifaac Townfend's, 
 and was the next day at a large meeting 
 for that place, at the Lower meeting- 
 houfe, to fome degree of fatisfadion, in 
 which I laboured to turn the minds^of the 
 people to Chrift our free and infallible 
 teacher, and there appeared a tender- 
 hearted few among them ; I then went 
 forward to Cohanfy, and had a meeting 
 fome what large, and a laborious time at 
 Greenwich, which being in gofpel love, I 
 truft tended to edification ; I then came 
 to Jofeph Gibfon's, and had a folid fitting 
 in the family, his wife being much afili(5l- 
 cd with a cancer, by which it was faid flie 
 had loft one of her eyes, and almoft the 
 iight of the other, but was in a patient 
 Z frame 
 
x^^66. frame of mind ; then went to James 
 New-jei-- Daniel's, and the next day to Salem to the 
 
 ley. , ^ "^ 
 
 burial of the wife of John Pvlafon, on which 
 occafion we were favoured with an awful 
 folemn meeting, went home with Sa- 
 muel Nicholfon, and the next day had a 
 folid fitting with an afilided family in 
 our way to Lower- Alio ways- creek meet- 
 ing, which was very laige, wherein I 
 gave up to fpend and be fpent in fervent 
 love and gofpel labour, and hope it was 
 a bleffed feafon to a number there prefent ; 
 from thence I came with feveral Friends 
 to Benjamin Thompfon's at the Glafs- 
 works, and the day following we had a 
 large meeting at Upper- Alloways-creek, 
 much to the fatisfatlion of feme prefent, 
 in which having cleared my fpirit, I came 
 avv^ay relieved in my mind ; then went to 
 Zacheus Dun's, and was at a large meet- 
 ing the next day at Pilefgrove, whichltruft 
 was a time of profit to Friends and others, 
 after this meeting went to Solomon Lip- 
 pincot's, and the next day attended a 
 large meeting at Upper-Greenwich, which 
 was a time of hard labour, after which I 
 came home, being on the 26th day of the 
 
 third 
 
third month, 1766 ; the Lord alone being ,7^^, 
 worthy ov all praife, glory and honour Phiiadci- 
 for evermore : lome ot the meetings in 
 this journw/ weie (I thought) the iargeftin 
 Peniifylvaniaand New-Jerfey, that I had 
 feen before in viiiting thofe parts, a great 
 numoer of young people coming up on 
 the ilage of lite, who I wifii may be an 
 army for Chrift. 
 
 In the fame year and the fixth month, ^^^^^ 
 I viiited Evelhara, Cheiler, and Pvancocas Jer%. 
 meetings in the Jerfeys, moft of them be- 
 ing large, and attended with near unity 
 with fuch as were I hope honeil-hearted 
 towards God ; in the fame month, a 
 weighty concern attended Friends at our 
 monthly meeting, on account of a com- Fi^iiadcU 
 pany of ft age-players, that came to the 
 city in order to erecl a theatre to exhibit 
 their pernicious diverfions, to prevent 
 which, and declare our teflimony againft 
 their proceedings in a thing of fo bad a 
 tendency for corrupting the minds of the 
 people, leading them from the fear of the 
 Lord into vanity ; Friends agreed to ad- 
 drefs our Govenor, John Penn, requeft- 
 Z 2 ing 
 
ijcc. ing him to interpofe with his authority, 
 to prevent the fame, who being then at 
 Shrewfbury, and Friends deiirous to for- 
 ward their addrefs with a view to the 
 good of our city and people ; faw fit to 
 appoint Mordecai Yarnal, John Pember- 
 ton, Jofhua Emlen and myfelf, to go to 
 Shrewfbury, and prefent it to him, it be- 
 ing about feventy miles from Philadel- 
 phia j we accordingly proceeded, and dif- 
 charged our meflage ; but the Governor 
 we found had given liberty and his pro- 
 mife to the players, fo that we had no 
 profpe£t of obtaining redrefs from him j 
 yet I truft that Friends and we were clear 
 in thus difcharging our duty to God and 
 man in this refpecl ; I returned home on 
 the 2d of the month following, and en- 
 joyed a degree of peace, having fome fo- 
 lid fittings in fome Friends families on our 
 return, and an opportunity of feeing fome 
 whom I valued in the truth. 
 
 phiiadei- After thefe twojournies this year, I 
 
 ^^^** kept much at home, and in obedience to 
 
 the Lord, and in love to the inhabitants 
 
 of this city, laboured in fincerity for their 
 
 welfare.— 
 
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 welfare. — In 1767 I attended the Yearly- ,75-. 
 Meeting at Salem, which was very large, saiemia 
 
 New- 
 
 and much favoured with a vifitation of gof- Jeifey. 
 pel love and power, to the rejoicing the 
 hearts of the faithful among Friends ; on 
 my way to this meeting, I took the week 
 day meeting at Woodbury- creek, and on 
 my return the youth's meeting at Pilef- 
 grove, which was large, and both of 
 them tending to fohd fatisfaclion ; — I had 
 alfo fome comfortable meetings in fome 
 families. 
 
 After this journey I was at feveral 
 meetings in this province and New-Jer- 
 fey, fome of which were large and I hope 
 beneficial to the well-minded, one of them 
 was at the burial of Wilham Paxfon, at 
 Nefhamany in Bucks county, which 
 was an awful folemn time, and a great ga- 
 thering of people ; after thefe opportuni- 
 ties I (laid much in the city, fincerely la- 
 bouring for the profperity of Truth in our 
 own meeting, with the faithful belonging 
 to the fame, isntil I found a draft on 
 my mind to vifit fome meetings in the 
 Jerfeys, and the particular families of 
 
 Friends 
 
»c\v- 
 erfey 
 
 [ 1(54 ] 
 
 tysn. Friends belonging to Cheiler meeting, a 
 branch of Evefhain Monthly-Meeting, 
 which I performed in the twelfth month, 
 176B, in much iove, faithfully labouring 
 both in the families where I went with my 
 coulin John Lippincot and wife, Edmund 
 Holiiiilliead, and John Roberts, alfo in 
 thefeveral public meetings, which were 
 large, and chietiy in Burlington county, 
 being eight in number, befides one with 
 the Indians at Edgepelick (or Brotherton) 
 where Divine Strength was afforded to 
 proclaim the council and will of God 
 through Chrift, as I apprehended, and in 
 the performance of this labour of love, I 
 enjoyed great comfort of mind, and near 
 unity with Friends, my viiits to whofe 
 families were generally opportunities of 
 kind reception, and fuch opennefs and 
 brokennefs of heart in many places, that 
 it befpoke a day of vi/itation of God's love 
 to their fouls, and I wifli it may be " as 
 " bread caj} on the waters^ that may be found 
 *' after many days,^* Having performed 
 this labour of love, I viiited feveral meet- 
 ings in this province and New-Jerfey, and 
 attended tlie burials of fome valuable 
 
 Friends 
 
[ i<^5 3 
 
 Friends at diftant places, fome of which 
 opportunities were much to my fatisfacli- 
 on and folid comfort, as were the benefi- 
 cial and profitable feafons at home, where- 
 in I had to enjoy at times the Lord's liv- 
 ing prefence in the befl of ftrength, and 
 Divine liberty that is in the gofpel, with 
 my dear Friends of our own meeting. 
 
 After this I found drawings in my j^^p 
 mind of love towards Friends at Long- 
 iiland and thereaway, and having the con- 
 currence and unity of my dear Friends 
 at our Monthly-Meeting, in the eighth 
 month, 1769, I went forward, fome 
 Friends accompanying me ; the firft night 
 I iodsred at Robert Collifon's, and the Eucks 
 
 ^ county. 
 
 next day attended the Quarterly-Meet- 
 ing at the Falls in Bucks county, where 
 was Rachel Wilfon from England, and a 
 very large meeting, and I hope a time of 
 profit to many ; 1 was alfo at their youth's 
 meeting the next day, which was com- 
 fortably attended with the love of God, 
 and with near unity with Friends ; after 
 meeting dined atMahlon Kirkbride's, then 
 rode through Delaware fordj and reach- 
 ed 
 
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 t-jGg, ed that day Samuel Worth's, and thd 
 New- next Jofeph Shotwell's, and the day 
 
 following being the firft of the week, was 
 at two meetings at Rah way, with our 
 , Friend Samuel Emlen jun. to fome de- 
 gree of fatisfaclion, then went with him 
 -^ -, , and feveral other Friends to New-York, 
 
 New-York. ' 
 
 and engaged with him in vifiting the fa- 
 milies of Friends in that city, which we 
 performed to about forty famihes, at- 
 tended their Monthly-Meeting to fome de- 
 gree of comfort, and had feveral open 
 times in places, wherein I hope the Lord's 
 precious feed was watered through his 
 bleffed prefence ; my mind was much re- 
 lieved of a burden that had lain upon me, 
 and having met with a kind reception 
 among Friends there, I went from thence 
 i.ong- t^ Weftbury on Long-iiland, where we 
 had a large meeting on the firft day of the 
 week, which was favoured with Divine 
 help, living comfort and near unity 
 with Friends, where came my kind com- 
 panion Jofliua Creffon, who I had left at 
 Rahway when on our way to New- York ; 
 after this meeting vifited fome Friends 
 families, and the next day were at a bu- 
 rial, 
 
 iilaiid. 
 
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 rial, and the day following at the youth's i7<j,. 
 meetins: in the fame place, from whence Long- 
 we went to Matmicock, and Oyiter-bay, 
 where were two large meetings to good 
 fatisfaclion, and on our way to John Wil- 
 lis's, we called with feveral Friends to 
 fee Clement Willis, who as I have already 
 mentioned, had been confined through 
 infirmity of body between thirty and for- 
 ty years, and could not walk or Hand 
 alone, as I apprehend, moft of that time ; 
 •we were owned together in waiting upon 
 the Lord by his living prefence, and the 
 dear afflicted Friend expreffed, that flie 
 did not know that Ihe ever had a more fa- 
 tisfadory time, and I hope it was a feafon 
 of profit to feveral of us then prefent ; on 
 the firil day following we were again at 
 Weftbury meeting, which was large, and 
 I hope they were faithfully warned in 
 golpel love, to the fatisfaclion of Friends ; 
 from Long-iiland we crofTed over the 
 Sound into Coneclicut, to a place called concaicut, 
 Middlefex, in company with Matthew- 
 Franklin, John Wells, John Cock, Tho- 
 mas Symonds and fome others, diflance 
 about twenty miles by water, where was 
 A a a 
 
I i63 ] 
 
 ,,59. a fmall meeting under the name of Friends^, 
 Coneaicut. a pretty many people came there, v ho be- 
 haved foberly, and we were comforted to- 
 gether, an opennefs appearing to receive 
 the teftimony of Truth ; the next day we 
 had a folid time with a Friend who was 
 weak in body, and in the family, that 
 feemed glad of the opportunity, receiv- 
 ing us kindly, and fome who did not 
 make profeilion with us were extiaordi- 
 nary fo, and ufed us with much civility, 
 and were helpful in affifting us to get to 
 Long- return to Long-illand, after our anival 
 there, we vifited the following meeangs, 
 viz. Bethpage, Weftbury, Jacob Mott's, 
 the Monthly-Meeting at Weftbury, alfo 
 had a large meeting at Jerufalem, in which 
 places I truft the Lord owned the labour of 
 love beftowed among the people, there 
 being 1 thought great opennefs in the 
 hearts of Friends and others not profeiT- 
 ing with us ; after thefe opportunities and 
 having vifited upwards of fifty particular 
 famiUes belonging to Weftbury meeting, 
 we parted with Friends in tender love, 
 and came with our kind Friends and fel- 
 low-helpers Matthew Franklin and Joha 
 
 Willie 
 
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 Willis to Cow-neck, and had there a „<?,, 
 large and I hope a good meeting ; after Long- 
 which we went to our Friend Phebe 
 Dodge's, who had crofled the feas to Eng-. 
 land in the fervice of Truth ; we here rnet 
 our Friends Samuel Willis and wife, and 
 feveral of their hopeful children, and it 
 being a time of comfort, 1 was glad of our . 
 bemg together in that nearnefs of fpirit, 
 wherein conlifts the beft fellowihip ; the 
 next day we vifited feveral Friends with 
 Matthew Franklin, on ourway to his houfe, 
 feme of whom were confined through 
 wcaknefs of body, and I hope our calling 
 to fee them, gave them fome encourage- 
 ment of mind, through the Lord's tender 
 mercy extended towards us ; our next 
 meetings were at Flufhing and Newtown, 
 in which 1 hope I was clear as to religious 
 labour among them ; after the lafl meeting 
 I came away with feveral Friends and my 
 companion,peacefulinmind,to New- York, 
 and the day and part of the night follow- 
 ing got as far as Princetown in New-Jer- 
 fey, and the next day reached home, 
 where I again found a kind reception from nhia. 
 my beloved Friends, and the befl of peace 
 
 attending 
 
[ 170 ] 
 
 ,,<jp. attending my mind ; the Lord alone being 
 worthy of all the praife for evermore i 
 
 Phiiadei- After my return home, deep and 
 
 ^^'^' weighty labour fell to my lot in our meet- 
 
 ings, as at many other times among Friends 
 in this city ; I alfo viiited feveral who 
 were weak in body, and fome who were 
 in deep affliction ; and in the eleventh" 
 month this year, I attended Frankfort, 
 Fair-hill, and Providence meetings, ap- 
 pointed by our worthy Friend Rach'el 
 AVilfon, which were very large, and 
 owned with a gofpel vifitation to the peo- 
 ple ; after the laft meeting our f aid dear 
 Friend went to Chefter, and the fame day 
 embarked on board a ihip bound for Lon- 
 don, in order to return home with the 
 wellwifhes and prayers, I believe of a num- 
 ber, for her prefervation and fafe arrival ; 
 her faithful labours and diligent travels 
 having given great fatisfaction to many 
 
 Chcficr Friends and other people in America ; 
 
 pennfyiva- fi'om Chcfterin company with Jolhua Cref- 
 fon, I came that night to George Miller's, 
 and the next day went to Gofhen Month- 
 ly-Meeting, which was a time of good 
 
 fatisfac1:ion 
 
 nia. 
 
E 171 1 
 
 fatisfa<5tion to my mind, and I believe to 17^1. 
 others ; from hence we went on our cheficr 
 way towards Concord Quarterly-Meeting, 
 which we attended, and it was large and 
 relieving to my mind, finding nearnefs of 
 fpirit among Friends ; alfo vifited Birming- 
 ham meeting on the firft day, and the ge- 
 neral (or youth's) meeting at Chefter, and 
 had feveral folid opportunities in places in 
 the families of Friends, that both thofe 
 meetings and the family vifits, were I be- 
 lieve to edification and comfort ; Friends 
 being kind and loving, I returned home 
 with a degree of peace in my own mind. 
 
 In the fame month I went with my 
 Friend Ifrael Pemberton to the firft day 
 meetmg at Bybury, at which was Jofeph county. 
 White, who in his public teftimony was led 
 to be remarkably particular, as to the ftate 
 of the meeting that day, which I believe 
 was wifhed by many that it might have its 
 defired proper fervice ; the next day I 
 came with my Friend Ifrael to the Month- 
 ly-Meeting at Abington, through a great 
 deal of rain, the meeting was fmall but 
 fomething fatisfaclory j on the feventh 
 
 day 
 
[ 172 ] 
 
 r7«> day of the week following, I went into 
 ^e*" the Jerfeys, ftopped that evening at A- 
 quila Jones's, and had a fitting in the fa- 
 mily, where was a number of Haves, in 
 which opportunity I found liberty to ad- 
 vife and caution all prefent in much love 
 and good will, and 1 believe it was kindly 
 received ; the next day I was at the meet- 
 ing at Newtown in Glocefter county, at 
 which were many people, and to fome 
 good degree of fatisfa^lion ; having for a 
 number of years had a defire at times for 
 the growth of Truth in that place, I was 
 made to rejoice of late, that Friends had 
 agreed for fometime paft to hold a meet- 
 ing there once a month, the houfe being 
 good, and many people living no great 
 diftance, and altho' the meeting had been 
 dropt for feveral years, I truft as it is again 
 revived, that if it be continued, the Lord 
 through his tender and merciful vifitati- 
 on, may be pleafed to place his name 
 among them. 
 
 S270. 
 
 In the courfe of my religious labours 
 and travels, a number have been reached 
 unto by conviction, and feveral convinced 
 
 of 
 
C 173 3 
 
 of the blefled truth, as I have ufiderftood, 
 fome of whom remained ferviceable among 
 Friends, which I juft mention as the 
 Lord's blefling upon his own work, who 
 IS worthy of all the praife, glory, and ho- 
 nour for ever ! 1 know 1 have endea- 
 voured to ferve him in fear and trembling, 
 and frequently have been bowed under a 
 fenfe of my great unworthinefs ; but great 
 hath been his mercy and power, extended 
 towards me a poor tribulated fufferer in 
 fpirit, for the bleffcd feed's fake ; magnifi- 
 ed be his eminent name ! he hath hitherto 
 been my rock, fortrefs, and deliverer, 
 and through his great kindnefs, I have 
 a fixed hope in my mind of his falvation, 
 through Chrift Jefus my dear redeemer, 
 "whofe glorious name let it be magnified 
 and adored for evermore ! 
 
 177-. 
 
 TWO 
 
C 175 ] 
 TWO 
 
 EPISTLES, 
 
 Wrote after his return from his 
 Journey to North-Carolina. 
 
 EPISTLE L 
 
 To Friends at their Monthly-Meeting at 
 Perquimons in North- Carolina. 
 
 Philadelphia, Tenth Mo7ith 2d, 1761. 
 
 Dear Friends; 
 
 IN a meafure of the fame love that at- 
 tended my mind when prefent in bo- 
 dy among you, I take this freedom now 
 to falute you in fpirit, wifhing the health 
 and profperity of the precious truth in 
 every particular branch thereof ; we as a 
 people profefs it to lead us into all truth, 
 which is the greateft profellion in the 
 world, and is the moll fure and fafe for 
 all the truly living and acting members 
 of the myflical body and church of Chrifl, 
 B b to 
 
to be guided by the wifdom and nature of 
 it in all things, to the glory of God. 
 
 And dear Friends, keep in the peace- 
 able wifdom and love of God, for " God is 
 " love," and Chrift hath commanded us 
 " to love one another," as alfo one of his 
 Servant's advifeth to love as brethren ; 
 let nothing break the unity that is in the 
 true faith and peaceable fpiritof Chrift our 
 holy head ; but dear brethren ; be of one 
 mind in his righteous caufe, in a particu* 
 lar manner in maintaining decency and 
 good order in his church, that his church 
 may be built and fupported by living 
 ftones, and his vineyard kept clean an^ 
 thriving with living branches, fuch that 
 may bring forth much good fruit to the 
 praife of God ! — My fpirit according to 
 my meafure is often with fuch among 
 you, that have the weight of the Lord's 
 work on your ihoulders, and I have many 
 times been comforted in remembring the 
 refrelhing and edifying feafonsof the pow- 
 er and prefence of Chrift that we have en- 
 joyed together, in that ability he was 
 pleafed to afford unto us, when it was my 
 
 lot 
 
i: ^77 ] 
 
 lot to be in your parts ; and I thought 
 myfelf to be in a good degree clear as to 
 iny religious duty, only with relpecl to 
 the meeting for bulinefs, it gave me fome 
 pain of mind, that there was no diflincti- 
 on made betwen fuch that were of our 
 own family (Friends in unity) and thofe 
 of other perfuailons, by allowing them 
 the fame privilege with Friends, in iit- 
 ing in thofe meetings, to fee and obferve 
 the remarks on your own proper bufinefs, 
 and they having no proper right as mem- 
 bers in the fociety, . it muil needs weaken 
 the teftimony, and the right labour of 
 faithful Friends, and expofe the manage- 
 ment of fuch meetings to the vain and 
 libertine converfation of the world, and 
 fo caufe the way of Truth to be evily 
 fpoken of, as alfo give great pain and ex- 
 ercife to the lincere-hearted. 
 
 It is in much love and tendernefs, that 
 I have thus exprefTed myfelf in this re- 
 fpecl, and to eafe the weight that has been 
 on my mind, from a thought of that un- 
 ufual cuftom, not allowed among Friends 
 in other places where the authority of 
 B b 2 Truth 
 
C 178 ] 
 
 Truth takes place ; I wifli it may be re- 
 formed among you fo gs to have it other- 
 wife, which I believe will be more to the 
 advantage of the church among y ourfelves, 
 and greater fatisfaclion to the Lord's fer- 
 vants that may come to vilit you in gof- 
 pel love ; it had been better for me, I have 
 thought, had I embraced the opportunity 
 to have eafed my fpirit when we were to- 
 gether, but a backwardnefs prevented, 
 which I had rather had not happened ; 
 but if this is received in the fame love that 
 it is intended, I hope it may anfwer the 
 fame gooddefign. 
 
 I D o not in the leaft defire by what I 
 have mentioned, that, any difrefpecl be 
 fliewn to thofeof other religious denomi- 
 nations, or to prevent their coming to our 
 meetings for worftiip, or any chriftian 
 office of love in any fuitable w^ay and man- 
 ner, fo that it be conliflent with our holy 
 profeffion, but with refpecl to what I have 
 hinted, I have thought it an impofition 
 and diforderly in fuch to expect any fuch 
 privilege, and I wifli that Elders may 
 exert their authority, fuch that the Holy 
 
 Ghofl 
 
C 179 ] 
 
 Ghofl may make overfeers, and that tliey 
 may be preferved, lb as to look well to 
 themfelves, and to the flock of Chrifl:, 
 and that the fame powerful faith that halh 
 been the foundation of the righteous 
 in all ages, may be their ftrength and lup- 
 port, fo as to rule well, and to be wortliy 
 of double honour, they labouring and en- 
 during in the fpirit of love and meeknefs, 
 to do the Lord's work with pure hearts 
 and clean hands, feeking that honour that 
 comes from God only, that he may be 
 pleated to fulfil his gracious promife, to 
 honour thofe that honour him, that by 
 their being good examples to the flock, 
 the youth and all that go under our name, 
 may follow them as they follow Chrifl, 
 and my heart is tenderly affected before 
 the Lord on account of the riling youth, 
 who are coming upon the If age of life, and 
 are reached I believe, many of them, by 
 the fame good fhepherd's voice that vilit- 
 ed many of us, by the powerful call of 
 grace and faith to falvation, that they 
 may daily partake of heavenly bread, and 
 nourifhment to their fouls, fo as to grow 
 ftrong ia the Lord, and in the power of 
 
 his 
 
his might, and they kept faithful to Divine 
 Knowledge and the bleffed yoke of Jefus 
 Chrift, fo as to live in the fear of God, 
 and profper in thofe things that are con- 
 iillent with Truth's teilimony, obedience 
 to parents, true moderation, plainnefs of 
 fpeech and apparel, and out of the vain 
 converfation of the ungodly ^ foi the ways 
 of the ungodly fhall perifti. — And let all 
 the tribulated and faithful followers of 
 the Lamb, be encouraged to keep your 
 heavenly places in Chrift, for he hath told 
 us, that " Greater is he that is inyou, than 
 *^ they that are in the world ^^ and let none 
 ^' he weary in welldoings for in due time we 
 ''^. JJoall reap if ive faint not.^^ 
 
 In true love I falute you, and wifh that 
 grace, mercy, and peace may increafe and 
 be multiplied among you ; 
 
 Being a real lover of Sio7i^s Profperity^ 
 
 DANIEL STANTON, 
 
EPISTLE II. 
 
 To Friends at their ^arterly-Meeting at 
 New-Garden in North-Carolina. 
 
 Philadelphia, Ninth Month 21/?, 1767. 
 
 Dear Friend s 5 
 
 IN true and brotherly love, I take this 
 opportunity to falute you, havingbeen 
 deiirous according to my meafure, that 
 the Lord's glorious work and truth may 
 profper in your parts, and prevail to the 
 glory and honour of his moll excellent 
 name and praife, that hath planted a num- 
 ber of families, not many years lince in 
 that wildernefs, with a deiign I truft, that 
 he might have a fruitful field or garden, 
 yielding pleafant fruits, and be a fweet fa- 
 vour to him* 
 
 And dear Friends ; 
 
 Let the awful fenfe of the great care 
 
 and tender mercy, and good Providence 
 
 of God towards his flock and family be 
 
 thankfully remembred, fo as to walk wor- 
 
 •thy of his grace and goodnefs towards 
 
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 you ; and let the love of God in Chrift 
 prevail in your hearts, and brotherly love 
 one towards another in the unity of the 
 fpirit, which is the bond of peace ; that 
 there may be no hurting or deflroying in 
 all the Lord's holy mountain ; but a care 
 that you may be preferved in the faith and 
 fellovi^fhip of the faints in light, that you 
 may be as lights and way-marks to others^ 
 ruling well in your places and ftations in 
 the church of Chrift, in the meeknefs and 
 patience, humility and charity, as becomes 
 the followers of the Lamb, looking to 
 him, the true guide of his flock, to be led 
 in and out that you may find pafture, and 
 the beft wifdom to direct your fteps in the 
 way of peace, and eftablifli your goings in 
 righteoufnefs ; that you may be a peculi- 
 ar people zealous of good works, having 
 a regard to truth's honour, and true mo- 
 deration in all thmgr§^^ living in the crofs 
 of Chrift, more than to mind temporal 
 things or the profits of this world, that 
 God's righteous feed may grow and thrive 
 in all your minds, to the bringing forth 
 plentifully fuch fruits that beft pleafe him ; 
 and as you are willing to be one with the 
 
 pure 
 
C 183 3 
 
 pure feed, and to fufiTer with it, I hope 
 you will enjoy the blelTedpromife of reign- 
 ing with the fame in the Lord's time, and 
 that all hurtful things that are like briars- 
 and thorns, which would choak or hurt 
 this precious feed, or fow (Jifcord among 
 brethren may be watched and guarded 
 againft, fo as not to allow of hardnefs of 
 heart, prejudice, or illwill one againft 
 another, the nature of which is contrary 
 to the heavenly peace and fweet fellowlhip 
 of Chrift's kingdom, that confifls of 
 peace and joy in the Holy Ghoft ; — and 
 as I wifh for the aged to keep their ranks 
 in righteoufnefs, fo I delire for the youth 
 and riiing generation, that they may 
 come up in the foot-fleps of the flock of 
 Chrifl's companions, and adhere unto the 
 true monitor and juft witnefs of Truth in 
 their own brcafts, living near to Chrift, 
 the Way, the Truth, and the Life, that 
 they may be a people to God's praife, 
 minding his early and tender viiitations to 
 their fouls, and the good advice and care 
 of their Godly parents and beft Friends,- 
 and ilee from youthful lufts and wanton- 
 nefs, wherein m.any go in the way to de- 
 C c ftruclion. 
 
[ i84 3 
 
 ftruction, and occafion great pain and af- 
 fliclionjfometimes to themfelves and near- 
 eft Friends when it is too late. 
 
 My prayers are for their lafting welfare 
 and for you all 5 and wifli that brotherly 
 love may rule and abound among you, it 
 being " good and pleafant for brethren 
 '' to dwell together in unity, it is like the 
 " precious ointment upon the head, that 
 ^^ ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's 
 *' beard, that went down to the fkirts of 
 *^ his garments. — As the dew of Her- 
 *' mon, and as the dew that defcended 
 " upon the mountains of Sion, for there 
 " the Lord commanded the bleiling, even 
 [' life for evermore !'^ P/al. cxxxiii. 
 
 In the love unfeigned^ 
 I conclude^ and am 
 Tlur real Friend^ 
 
 DANIEL STANTON. 
 
Yl)cre being no other nvritten Memorial of our Friend 
 Benjamin Trot t e r, het'i.vce i 'ivhovi and Daniel 
 Stanton, a long uiiintemipted friendjhip fubftjted \ 
 it is thoughs the fiih joining the follonuing here, may be 
 acceptable to Friends in general. 
 
 The TESTIMONY of the 
 
 Monthly Meeting of F R I E N D S 
 in Philadelphia, concerning our be- 
 loved Friend and Brother, Benjamin 
 Trotter, who was born in this City, 
 in the ninth Month of the Year, 1699. 
 
 HE was one whom the Lord early 
 vifited, and reached unto by the 
 reproofs of his Divine Light and 
 Grace, for thofe youthful vanities and cor- 
 rupt converfation, which by nature he 
 was prone to and purfued, to the grief of 
 his pious mother, who was reiigioufly con- 
 cerned toreftrain him; but as he became 
 obedient to the renewed viutations of 
 the heavenly call, denying himfelf of 
 thofe things he was reproved for, he not 
 only learned to ceafe from doing evil, but 
 to live in the practice of doing well ; and 
 continuing faithfui, became an example 
 of plainncfsand felf-dcniai, for which he 
 fuftered much fcoiiiag and mocking gf 
 thofe who had been his companions in fol- 
 ly ; yet he neither fainted nor was turned 
 aiide by the reproaches of the ungodly, 
 which thus fell to his lot, for his plain tef- 
 timony againll their evil conduct. 
 
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C.2 3 
 
 In the twenty-fixth year of his age, he 
 appeared in the work of the miniftry, and 
 laboured therein in mlich plainnefs and 
 Godly iincerity, adorning the doclrine he 
 preached, by a humble circumfpecl life 
 and converfation, being exemplary in his 
 diligence and induftry to labour honeftly 
 for a livelihood, though often in much 
 bodily infirmity and weaknefs, defiring, 
 as he fometimes exprefled, that he might 
 owe no man any thing but love. His in- 
 oiFenfive opennefs and affability, drawing 
 many of different denominations to con- 
 verfe with him, he had fome feafonable op- 
 portunities of admonifliing and rebuking 
 the evil doer and evil fpeaker, which he did, 
 in the plainnefs of an upright zeal for the 
 promotion of piety and virtue, temper- 
 ed with true brotherly kindnefs and cha- 
 rity ; refpecling not the perfon of the 
 proud nor of the rich,becaufe of his riches, 
 but with Chriftian freedom, deelarmgthe 
 truth to his neighbour, and was thus 
 in private as well as public, a preacher of 
 righteoufnefs, 
 
 1 N his public miniftry he was zealous a- 
 gainft errors both in principle and pra<Elice, 
 and conftantly concerned to prefs the ne- 
 iHty of obedience to the Principle of Divine 
 Tit. ii. II. Grace; a manifeftation of which is given 
 to every man; knowing, from his own ex- 
 perience, that it bringeth falvation to all 
 them that obey and follow it's teachings 
 
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 and was frequently enabled with energy 
 and power to bear teftimony to the out- 
 ward coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift, 
 his miraculous birth, his holy example in 
 his life and precepts, and his death and 
 fufFerings at Jerufalem, by which he hath 
 obtained eternal redemption for us. ^&'i4." ^* 
 
 I N his public teftimony a little be- 
 fore his laft ficknefs, he expreiled his 
 apprehenlions, that his time* among us 
 would be fhort, and fervently exhorted 
 to watchfulnefs and care, to keep our 
 lamps trimmed, and our lights burning, 
 and urged the neceflity of being prepared 
 to meet the bridegroom, as not knowing 
 at what hour he will come. 
 
 H E travelled feveral times, and viiited 
 moft of the meetings of Friends in this 
 province and New-Jerfey, and fome in the 
 adjacent provinces, but was not much 
 from home ; being upwards of forty years 
 a diligent attender of our religious meet- 
 ings in this city, zealoufly concerned for 
 the maintaining our Chriftian difcipHne in 
 meeknefs and true charity, careful in 
 theexercife of that part of pure religion, 
 vifiting the widow and fatherlefs in their 
 afflictions, and often qualified to admi- 
 nifter relief and confolation to their de- 
 jected minds. 
 
 Afflictions of divers kinds, and 
 fome very deep and exercifing, fell to his 
 lot through the courfe of his life, which 
 
 he 
 
c 4 : 
 
 he was enabled to bear with exemplary 
 patience and reiignation, and particularly- 
 through his laft illnefs, in which, for up- 
 wards of fix weeks, he underwent great 
 diiEculty and pain, being afflicled with 
 the afthmaand dropfy, fo that he fuffered 
 much, yet was never heard to utter a mur- 
 mur or complaint, but freq^iently expref- 
 fed his thankfulnefs, that he had not more 
 pain, and often engaged in prayer, that 
 he might be preferved in patience to the 
 end, which was gracioufly granted him ; 
 fo that he was capable of fpeaking to the 
 comfort and edification of thofe who vifit- 
 ed him ; and from the fervent love of the 
 brethren, which evidently appeared thro' 
 his life, and moft confpicuouHy during 
 his laft illnefs, and even in the hour of 
 his death, we have a well-grounded af- 
 furance that he is pafled unto life, and 
 hath received the reward of the Righte- 
 ous. 
 
 H 1 s body was attended by a great 
 number of Friends and others, his fellow- 
 citizens of divers religious denominations, 
 to our Meeting-houfe in High-ftreet, on 
 the 24th of the third month, 1768, and 
 after a folemn Meeting, in which feveral 
 living teftimonies were borne, was inter- 
 red in our burial ground in this city. 
 
 Sig7ied on Behalf, and by Appointment of our Month- 
 ly Meeting, held in Philadelphia, by Adjourn??ien{, 
 the ^th Day of the Eighth Mo7ith, 1769. 
 
 JAMES PEMBERTON, Clk. 
 
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 XV line 8, for leaji read le/?. 
 In the Journal, 
 Page 19 line 24, for gifs read gifts. 
 56 line 26, for thier read their, 
 96 line 19 for anothe read another, 
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