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Briefer Notices55 meeting and laying down, location of records, and comments. Anyone interested in assisting the project can reach Thomas Hill at 1800 Star Bank Center, Cincinnati , OH 45202-3957. Clarification: In the Fall 1989 issue of Quaker History (vol. 78, no. 2), we reported on a grant to the Clinton County (Ohio) Historical Society for a research project, "The Friendly Soil: Development of the Society of Friends in Clinton County, Ohio, 1800-1900." Rhonda Curtis, Director of the Society , is a member of the research staff of the project. The project director is Dr. Vinton Prince, Chair of the Wilmington College History Department. Briefer Notices Prepared by Barbara L. Curtis Crosslands #188 Kennett Square, PA 19348 The annual meeting of Friends Historical Association was held on Eleventh Month 6, 1989, at the Friends Meeting House at Fourth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, PA 19106. A large group of members and friends enjoyed dinner together in the East Room. Margaret Hope Bacon, President, called the meeting to order in the Monthly Meeting Room. Reports were given by several standing committees, including those of the Treasurer and the Nominating Committee . The financial report, submitted by the Treasurer, was heard with appreciation and approved. The panel of directors for the term 1989-1992 was submitted as follows: Kenneth L. Carroll, Barbara L. Curtis, Jane R. Smiley, and Allen M. Terrell. Douglas Gwyn had asked not to serve again. The report was accepted by the meeting. The minutes of the annual meeting in 1988 were read and approved with thanks to Elisabeth Potts Brown, Secretary, for a comprehensive and accurate account of the proceedings. The group then heard an interesting account of research under way on "Quakers and Witchcraft" by Carol Karlsen, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan, T. Wistar Brown Fellow in Quaker Studies at Haverford College, Fall, 1989. The Eighth Biennial Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists will take place at George Fox College in Newberg, OR, June 22-24, 1990, in association with the gathering of Friends Association for Higher Education. Papers at the Conference will treat topics in Quaker history from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, with special attention to the history of Friends in the Western states. Members of the steering committee are Thomas D. Hamm, Earlham College, convenor, H. Larry Ingle, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga , clerk of program committee, Elizabeth Moger, Havilands Record Room, New York Yearly Meeting, Arthur J. Worrall, Colorado State University , Lew Fendall, George Fox College, and Albert Fowler, Treasurer, Friends Historical Association. For additional information contact Thomas D. Hamm, Department of History, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374. 56Quaker History Aubrey Haines Baldwin has completed a manuscript on "The indulged meeting at Fairhill and its burial ground: a documentary history." A xerox copy of this manuscript is on deposit at the Quaker Collection at Haverford College. The original is located at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College , Swarthmore, PA 19081. This is a valuable contribution to the history of Quakers in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. It is a detailed and meticulous account of the life of this meeting from its origin in 1702 until it was laid down and the property sold to the Ephesians Baptist Church on October 25, 1985. A request has been received by the editor of Briefer Notices to inform readers of a longstanding program of research on the location and current status of Friends meeting places throughout New England. Silas B. Weeks, 14 Odiorne Lane, Eliot, ME 03903, has accumulated data and photographs on ninety-six identified buildings or sites. There remain a few in Maine and northern Vermont which he is planning to visit. New England Yearly Meeting has endorsed the project and will receive the materials Weeks has assembled. The Department of History at the University of Lancaster, England, has announced plans for a conference to be held in March, 1991, to mark the tercentenary of the death of George Fox. Michael Mullett, professor of history at the University, states that after registration on Monday, March 25, and a keynote address, the conference will get down to business Tuesday morning, March 26, and continue into Thursday the 28th. Mullett reports that in addition to its academic...

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