Historical News

HISTORICAL NEWS The Spring Meeting of Friends Historical Association was held, with the Friends Social Union, on Sunday, May 6, 1973, in the Uwchlan and Cain Meetinghouses in Chester County, Pennsylvania . Meeting for worship was held at Uwchlan (Downington) , with a picnic lunch following. The address of the afternoon was given in the Cain Meetinghouse by Jack Marietta, of the history department at the University of Arizona, and T. Wistar Brown Fellow at Haverford College, 1972-73. His topic: "Chester County Friends and the Reformation of [eighteenth-century] Pennsylvania Quakers." We note with deep regret the death on April 9, 1973, of Howard H. Brinton, a long-time member and former president of Friends Historical Association and author of many books and pamphlets on Quakerism, both historical and contemporary. Opal Thornburg, Archivist of Earlham College, announces that four manuscript monthly meeting minute books have recently come to light. They are the minutes of Millcreek Monthly Meeting of Women Friends (West Milton, Ohio), 1824-1852, and the minutes of West Branch Monthly Meeting of Women Friends (also near West Milton), 1838-1861, 1863-1868, and 1868-1873. They were sent to Earlham College by Alfred W. Jones, of Sea Island, Georgia , descendant of the Quaker family of Jones which settled near West Milton soon after 1800. In July, 1973, John M. Moore retired as Acting Director of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College; in September, J. William Frost, formerly of Vassar College, was appointed Director of the Library, and Associate Professor of Religion. 120 ...