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34 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION has justified itself and the meeting is growing rapidly.—The Wayfarer, 7 (1928) : 5. —The historic Cressbrook Farm at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, recently offered by Henry N. Woolman to the University of Pennsylvania as a suitable location for its undergraduate schools, is part of a tract of land granted to David Powell by William Penn. In 1707 Powell conveyed 800 acres of this land to John Harvard, a wealthy Welshman, whose descendants have continued to live upon it until very recent times.—General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, 30 (1928) : 206. —The Expository Times is not usually especially sympathetic with Friends. But its leading article for March, 1928 (Vol. 39, pp. 241 f.) illustrates the standards of the Day of Judgment expressed by the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats by appeal to the example of the Quakers after the War, and the German verb quäkern. " Here was a religion in whose beauty and power everyone was constrained to believe, for it was expressed not in creeds and formulae, but in deeds of love." NOTES AND QUERIES On account of the absence of the Editor, Rayner W. Kelsey, who is employing part of his sabbatical leave in touring the United States, the responsibility for this volume of the Bulletin, including this issue and the next, is with the Acting Editor, Henry J. Cadbury, of Haverford, Pennsylvania . The annual meeting of Friends' Historical Association was held on 11 mo. 29, 1927, at the Friends' meeting house in Burlington, New Jersey. The president of the Association, Francis R. Taylor, presided, and after the formalities of reading the minutes and electing directors for the ensuing year were over, he addressed the meeting on the record of the past year and made an interesting plea for that perspective of view which will give proper order and value to events of historic importance. As this address is printed elsewhere in this Bulletin, further resumé of it will not be given here. The president also recalled the services of the late George Vaux, Jr., to our Association as president and director, and councillor of the Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia, so regretfully terminated a year ago when health forced him to decline re-election, as well as his interest in many lines of civic betterment, prisons, the Indians, etc., and his services to the Society of Friends in many capacities. The president referred also to the retirement from the Board of Directors of Lucy B. Roberts who, to the regret of all, finds it necessary in the press NOTES AND QUERIES35 of other duties to decline re-election. Her long service to the Association and to the Friends' Historical Society, on the Board and as President, were reviewed and our debt to her for the consolidation of this Association and that Society, as well as for the large growth in numbers and activity under her term of office, were mentioned. At the conclusion of his address, the president introduced Amelia M. Gummere, who delivered an address on the social conditions in England that formed the background of the early settlers in Burlington. The address is also printed elsewhere in this Bulletin. When the meeting was over, the Association and Friends present were very hospitably entertained by the Friends of Burlington and Bucks Quarter. Those who served supper were appropriately costumed in the old Quaker garb, and one individual wore a pair of leather breeches reminiscent of George Fox himself. Among the features of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the city of Burlington, New Jersey, in Tenth Month last (Bulletin, 16: 58 f.) was an address delivered before the Burlington County Historical Society, and subsequently printed under the title " Burlington " : Historical Address. Dr. Richard Mott Gummere, the »author, covers a wide range of local history and of historical background. Naturally, the Quakers play an important part in the essay, a part more exclusively described by the author's mother elsewhere in the present issue of the Bulletin. The one hundred and thirty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Lucretia Mott was observed by a meeting at the Fair Hill Meeting House, Germantown , Pennsylvania, on First Month 3d, 1928...