Extracts from Old Meeting Records

EXTRACTS FROM OLD MEETING RECORDS.47 In addition, he was irregular in his own life, joined with young Penn in his revels, and bore no good name in a community of strict Quakers. His own friends had to apologize for him, and Logan finally advised the recall, but as a result again Lloyd was triumphant. In 1706 and the three following years he was elected Speaker, resisted Evans and Logan with acrimony and success, and carried the Province with him. (To be concluded.) EXTRACTS FROM OLD MEETING RECORDS. [The editor is indebted to a friend for the following extracts from old meeting records. They were made by a Friend in 1844, and, though in modernized spelling, are doubtless accurate.] Westbury Quarterly Meeting [New York.] At a half-year's meeting on Matinicook on Long Island the 14th day of 6 mo 1684. The necessity of John Adams being laid before this Meeting for their consideration, advice and assistance, for some speedy supply for part payment for a negro man that he hath lately bought. The meeting did appoint and desire John Bowne of Flushing, and William Richardson of Westchester to the care in behalf of the meeting, to procure a sum of money of some person on as cheap terms as they can, for the supply as aforesaid, and the meeting doth promise and engage to reimburse and pay the said sum so procured.1 1 It was just about the time of the above minute that William Burling began to raise his voice in New York Yearly Meeting against slavery, but it was not until about the middle of the eighteenth century that a query "Whether Friends are clear of importing or purchasing negroes or slaves" was adopted."— Editor. 48BULLETIN OF FRIENDS* HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Marriage of Thomas Lloyd and Patience Story. At a Quarterly Meeting 27 of 10 mo 1684. Thomas Lloyd2 and Patience Story appeared the second time and declared their intentions of marriage (having proposed it before in a monthly meeting in New York) and Friends of Philadelphia having by a certificate declared his clearness, and their unity with him in his proceeding, all things being thus clear, Friends left them to their own time for the consummation of their intended marriage. Philadelphia 2nd of 10 mo. From Our Quarterly Meeting. Dear Friends, brethren and sisters, In the dear love [of the gospel] we salute you, and acquaint you, that our dear and well beloved friend in the holy faith of Jesus Christ, Thomas Lloyd, this day [at] our Quarterly Meeting the second time laid his intentions of marriage with Patience Story of New York, before us, and we had near and dear unity with him, and his lovely deportment and tenderness did greatly affect us; and we have unity with his said intentions, for some of us knows the aforesaid Patience, and have good unity with her in her place and service to God and his people, and we are fully satisfied of his clearness from all others as to entanglements or engagement in relation to marriage, and the Lord bless them and make them a blessing to many in their generation, and he hath in his place here lived honorably and done worthily, and he may proceed in the order of truth, for the accomplishment of the aforesaid intentions, and so in God's fear we wish them well, and salute you all dearly there away, and rest your friends in the truth. To the meeting of Friends in New York, whether monthly or quarterly. [Signed by eighteen men and seven women.] 2 "Thomas Lloyd, of Dolobran, third son of Charles, was bom 17 February, 1640, and died in Pennsylvania IO September, 1694. He married first 9 September, 1665, Mary, daughter of Roger Jones, of Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales, and secondly, Patience Gardiner, widow unto Robert Story : and by his first wife, who diedin 1680, he had ten children."—Glenn, "Merion in the Welsh Tract," pages 341, 342. EXTRACTS FROM OLD MEETING RECORDS.49 Selling of Drink; Marriage out of Meeting. The 7th of the 2nd month 1687. At a monthly meeting at John Bowne's in Flushing it was thought meet and agreed upon by...