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Historical News THE SPRING MEETING of Friends Historical Association was held at Fair Hill Meetinghouse at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Cambria Street on Fifth Month 16, 1953, as part of the observance of the meeting's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Our new President, Henry J. Cadbury, was in the chair. Walter Brenner delivered an address on the history of Fair Hill Meeting, the substance of which has been printed as A Concise Early History ofFair Hill Friends Meeting. Afterwards a tree was planted in the meetinghouse yard in memory of Lucretia Mott and some Friends sought out the inconspicuous stone which marks her grave in the burying ground. As usual, there was a box supper following the meeting. * * * At a special meeting of the Board of Directors held on Fifth Month 16, 1953, due notice having been given in accordance with the Association's Constitution, Article V of the ByLaws was amended to read as follows: Stated meetings of the Directors shall be held on the first Fifth-day following the first Fourth-day in the Second, Fourth, and Tenth Months. Special meetings may be held at the call of the President, or upon the request of three Directors. Five Directors shall constitute a quorum. From Quaker" Libraries Friends' Record Room, 221 East 15th Street, New York, has recently been given the Funeral Book of the Preparative Meeting of New York. It is a record of burials in the old Friends' cemetery of lower Manhattan, kept by the caretaker. Entries begin Third Month 23, 1796 and extend to Fourth Month 28, 1804, and usually include date of interment, parentage , age, cause of death, and cost of burial. The fact that this book was found in California illustrates how far afield some of the "lost" records of Friends may be discovered. The Record Room has also been presented with a manuscript written by James Alley of Oswego Meeting in Dutchess County, New York. In June 1828 he attended the monthly meetings of Oblong, Oswego, Nine Partners, Creek, Stanford, and Little Esopus. At 102 Historical News103 each meeting he witnessed the actual separation of Orthodox and Hicksite, and he seems to have written his account immediately after the occurrence of the events described. * * * Recently acquired by the Quaker Collection of the Haverford College Library is The School for Friends by Marianne Chambers, a comedy performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and published at London in 1805. The "Friends" are not Quakers, but there is a minor character, Mathew Daw, who is a Quaker using the plain language and plain costume of the period. In a comic satire upon the social vices of the aristocracy, he, as a watchmaker and jeweler, is honest, sincere, and a lover of mankind. He even wins the love of a lady's maid and marries her "dressed like a Quaker." It is the Quaker who delivers the inevitable Epilogue containing the lines: 'Those who kindly may intend, To ridicule in us the name of friend, Are pleas'd to style us Quakers—'tis a name We Britons born, do utterly disclaim; No tremblers we, be that the lot of those Who are to us and social order foes . . . An important item purchased by Haverford College is Charles Davenant's Discourses on the Publick Revenues, and on the Trade of England (London, 1698). This work contains the first printing of William Penn's plan for a union of the colonies.* * * Through the courtesy of Irish Friends, the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College has recently received microfilm copies of Birth, Death, and Marriage Registers of Friends in Ireland. These begin in the late seventeenth century and include the areas of Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Edenderry, Grange, Lisburn, Limerick, Lurgan, Moate, Mountmellick , Richill, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Youghal. Additional films added to the Friends Historical Library this summer for Philadelphia meetings are five volumes of Darby Monthly Meeting records and six volumes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting records. The newly-filmed Darby records cover the period 1763 to 1891. 104Bulletin of Friends Historical Association To the collection of MS Quaker journals at Swarthmore have been added those of the Bucks County Quaker painter, Edward Hicks (1780...

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