The Annual Meeting, 1929

Volume 19, No. 1 Spring Number, 1930 Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association THE ANNUAL MEETING, 1929 PROGRAM Two Centuries of Quaker Costume Illustrated by Lantern Slides by Albert Cook Myers Impersonating Joseph Besse (1683-1757), London Friend, author of the first edition of "The Works of William Penn," 2 volumes, folio, London, 1726; "The Sufferings of the Quakers, 1650-1689," 2 volumes, folio, London, 1753, and numerous other Quaker books. Salutation by William Penn Founder of Pennsylvania; impersonated by Dr. Rayner W. Kelsey, Professor of American History at Haverford College. Tableaux of Fifteen Foremost Early Friends in Period Dress as Follows: (Under direction of Albert Cook Myers and Mrs. Henry V. Gummere) 1.George Fox (1624-1691), Founder of the Quakers; impersonated by Benjamin Cadbury, of Moorestown, New Jersey. 2.Margaret Fell (1614-1702), wife of George Fox; impersonated by Mrs. Rayner W. Kelsey, of Haverford. S. James Nayler (1617?-1660), minister; impersonated by Albert J. Edmunds, Cataloguer of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania . 4.William Penn (1644-1718), in armour, aged 22, in 1666; impersonated by his direct descendant, Philip Penn-Gaskell Hall, Jr., of Philadelphia, of the ninth generation. 5.GuIi Penn (1644-1693), first wife of William Penn and daughter of Sir William Springett; impersonated by their direct descendant , Mrs. Courtland Y. White, 3rd, of Philadelphia, of the ninth generation. 6.Hannah Penn (1670-1726), second wife of William Penn and daughter of Thomas Callowhill; impersonated by Mrs. Hannah Clothier Hull, of Swarthmore. 7.William Sewell (1654-1720), the Dutch Quaker historian and 'lexicographer; impersonated by Dr. William I. Hull, Howard M. Jenkins professor of Quaker History at Swarthmore College. 8.Captain John Underbill (1597-1672), commander of the Massachusetts forces against the Pequot Indians, later Long Island Quaker; impersonated by his direct descendant, Truman Underbill, of Media, of the tenth generation. 9.James Logan (1674-1751), William Penn's Pennsylvania Secretary and Agent; impersonated by his direct descendant, Sydney L. Wright, Jr., of Glenside, of the eighth generation. 10.Thomas Chalkley (1675-1741), travelling minister; impersonated by I. Thomas Steere, of Germantown, Treasurer of Friends' Historical Association. 11.Hannah Middleton Gurney, 1748, wife of Joseph Gurney, English Quaker; impersonated by Gladys Barnes, of Philadelphia . 12.John Woolman, noted Quaker minister; impersonated by his direct descendant, Frank F. Palmer, of Trenton, New Jersey, of the seventh generation. IS. Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), famous English Quaker minister and prison reformer ; impersonated by Mrs. Jonathan M. Steere, of Haverford. 14.Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), Quaker philanthropist and anti-slavery worker; impersonated by John W. Cadbury, Jr., of Moorestown, New Jersey. 15.Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), noted Quaker minister; impersonated by Amelia Mott Gummere, of Haverford. 2 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION The annual meeting of Friends' Historical Association was held on Second-day evening, Eleventh Month 25, 1929, at 8 o'clock. It was a notable meeting, the largest in the history of the Association, and therefore deserves special mention. By the generosity of our President, Charles F. Jenkins, the rooms of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania were secured for the occasion. After the program a bountiful collation was served through the kindness of our fellow member and Director, Edward Woolman. By a careful count there were 551 people present to enjoy the above program, made possible largely by the historical knowledge of Albert Cook Myers and by the management of the Entertainment Committee, of which Henry V. Gummere was Chairman. BENEZET AND BARBE-MARBOIS By Henry J. Cadbury The account of Barbé-Marbois from which some extracts were printed with comment in this Bulletin, 17 (1928) : 58 fï., has now been published in full as Our Revolutionary Forefathers, translated and edited with an introduction by Eugene Parker Chase. (New York: Duffield and Co. 1929.) The translation is a decided improvement * over that issued in the Atlantic Monthly from which we formerly quoted with some misgivings. The notes are not very extensive or very illuminating, as, for example, the statement (p. 225) that the Shakers were an offshoot of the English Quakers. The introduction, however, contains some valuable data about the author. The publication of the whole document gives us a better idea of its scope, and particularly...