Historical News

HISTORICAL NEWS The Spring Meeting of Friends Historical Association was held on Fifth Month 19, 1962, at Concord Meetinghouse, Concordville, Pennsylvania . The Friends Social Union met jointly with the Association, and the attendance was consequently large. Charles J. Darlington, President of the Friends Social Union, was asked to preside. He introduced the speaker of the afternoon, President Howard H. Brinton of Friends Historical Association, whose address on "Friends of the Brandywine Valley" is printed in this number of QUAKER HISTORY. (Readers will perhaps note a large number of references to Darlingtons and Brintons in his talk.) After a leisurely and pleasant box supper under the great trees in the meetinghouse yard, there was a meeting for worship in the meetinghouse. * * * At the meeting of the Board of Directors on Fourth Month 5, 1962, it was announced that Susanna Smedley and Thomas E. Drake had submitted their resignations from the Board. Their resignations were accepted with sorrow, for both Friends had done long and good service for the Association. Susanna Smedley was a Board member from 1940 to 1962 and Secretary of the Association from 1945 to 1957. Dr. Thomas E. Drake joined the Board in 1936 and was Editor of the BULLETIN from 1945 to 1948. The Board will deeply miss the wisdom and devotion of these two Friends. * * * The Spring Meeting of Friends Historical Association will be held at Wilmington, Delaware, on Fifth Month 11, 1963. * * * During the latter part of the eighteenth century, New England Friends apparently made a number of MS maps for the use of itinerant ministers. These maps normally included the area from the Penobscot River in Maine to the Pawcatuck River. The locations of the various meetings were usually shown by small circles. There were lines drawn between the meetings and on them the mileage was given. So far, four of these maps have been identified; two of them are dated 1782. The Editor would like to know about the existence of any more of these maps. 121 ...