The Annual Meeting: Friends' Historical Association

Volume 28, No. 1 Spring Number, 1939 Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association THE ANNUAL MEETING of Friends' Historical Association was held in the meeting house at 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, on Second-day, 11th mo. 28, 1938, at 8.15 p. m. At the business meeting the President and Treasurer presented their annual reports, and the members elected the Directors listed on the opposite page. The Directors later met for a brief organization meeting, and re-elected the officers. At the close of the business meeting, Henry J. Cadbury gave the address of the evening on the subject: "The Hangings at Boston 1659-1661 : Motives and Sequels." Dr. Cadbury raised some interesting questions, and threw fresh light upon possible answers, as to why in young America, the land of the free and the refuge of the non-conformist, the Quakers should have been treated with harsher barbarity than in England, where no Quaker was hanged for his religious convictions. The material which he presented, however, was not in shape which he deemed satisfactory for publication, and Dr. Cadbury did not wish at this time to give his manuscript to the Editor for the Bulletin. After Dr. Cadbury's address, those present were invited upstairs to a collation, and for the usual social opportunity. HINSHAWS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUAKER GENEALOGY THE FIRST volume of Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, covering the thirty-three oldest meetings of North Carolina, appeared in 1936. We had heard of it before its actual appearance, and knew it represented a very ambitious plan—no less than the orderly excerpting of personal, especially genealogical, information from the original 3 ...