From the Journal of Isaac Hadwen

DOCUMENTS29 emotion caused such agitation of their bodies that all their laces burst. J. R. wrote a paper of directions to his son the same day, with great composure. I suppose they were both enabled to pray that their cruel persecutors might seek repentance. What an excellent lesson had they learned from the great Master of their salvation!! "Lord forgive ¿hem for they know not what they do." They had both maintained through life unspotted moral characters. J. R. was a man of large property, and with a princely spirit shared it among his friends, neighbors, etc., whenever humanity made a demand upon him, so that he was justly, styled the Father and Protector of his neighborhood. The concern of friends and others who attended his remains bespoke that he lived and died lamented. Tho' they hung about an hour Abraham's body still retained his wonted cheerful and fine countenance, which was like an index to his mind. A rumour was spread that the bodies would be seized and not suffered to be buried in the Friends' Burying Ground, but it otherwise happened, for he says, the solemnity was so great that not a smile was seen among the prodigious multitude that was ranged to see and attend the funeral. The corpses were carried into the Meeting House, where they were favoured with such a Meeting as George thinks he never was at before or since; wonderful was the solemnity that covered the minds not only of Friends but many others. While A. lay in the dungeon he could get very little rest, for the rats which swarmed about him. By the interest used on his behalf he was carried to a chamber where he was rid of his disagreeable companions. FROM THE JOURNAL OF ISAAC HADWEN. Contributed by Norman Penney. By courtesy of a descendant, J. Theodore Hadwen, of Northwich, Cheshire, we have had before us the manuscript of the Journal of Isaac Hadwen, then of Sedbergh, in Yorkshire, kept during his Religious Visit to Friends in America, 1718, written on 21 pages with copies of minutes of liberation, etc. The diary begins 25 III. 1718 and ends, somewhat abruptly , 23 V. 1719. It is headed: "A Brefe Jurnall of a Voige Into Amiricay Together with Jn0 Danson."1 We extract a few entries of interest : the 25th of y" 3 Month 1718 Set forward towards London and wass at y" Yearly Meting and Abode In and near London till y" 26th of ye 5 Mo In Weh time we Visited the Metings there Y" 26th we w,h ower ffrds Lidiah Lankaster, Elizabeth Rawlison and Rebeco Turner2 With some other freinds went from London to Graveserid In a boate ower Vessai was gone before us, at Gravesend we went abord ower Vessali Called the Snow Hope In wch we Sailed to Amirico. 30 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. We wth ower frends and some others viz George Chalkley and his sone Tho : Chalkley and some freinds of London went Into the Great Cabin In a waightey frame of Spirit being near to part w"1 one a nother Sate Downe a little In Silance but did not sit long till it pleased the Lord to Loke downe gratiously upon us and opened the mouths of Sevarall In prayer on on ower behalfe (for ower preservation) and after prayer we In the Most 1JoIm Danson lived near Ulverston in N. W. Yorkshire. 2Lydia Lancaster (1684-1761), formerly Rawlinson, lived at Lancaster. She travelled in the ministry with Elizabeth Rawlinson, her sister by marriage. Elizabeth Rawlinson (c. 1670-1750), formerly Beck, was ,wife of Abraham Rawlinson, of Lancaster. She was a minister sixty-three years. Rebecca Turner lived near Bridlington, East Yorkshire. She travelled in Pennsylvania with Elizabeth Whartnaby. See, for the above, Journal of Friends Historical Society (London), 10:125, 126; also Bowden, History of Friends in America, 2:234, 235. Solom mannar toke leave of the aforesaid freind's but In a little time their Came More frd's from London to us viz Henerey Gouldney and Tho: Hiam and some others and we then went a Shore and Lodged y* night At a Inn In Gravesend...