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52 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. which was a marked characteristic of the man, Friend Shillitoe himself drew a chair to the table, saying as he sat down, " I eat neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, but would like a few of those beans." His visit on the Island was a forceful one, and his influence became traditional, and the generations which followed learned to venerate the man and his works. A drawing in miniature of Thomas Shillitoe and of Elizabeth Robson 2 framed hang upon the library wall of a great-granddaughter of the Friend with whom he " lodged " in Nantucket. Great as he was in his spiritual influence, his timidities were very marked, and it is reported of him that he always ran over a bridge.3 TESTIMONIAL OF SELECT SCHOOL TO SARAH EDDY, 1804. [The following document has come into the possession of the editor, and seems worthy of insertion in the Bulletin. The original is on a single sheet of letter paper, and is carefully written in a distinct regular hand, while the signatures are for the most part in the unformed writing of youth. It is not clear what school is referred to in this paper, but it may have been one under the care of Arch Street Meeting. The rather formal and stilted style of the testimonial suggests the idea that one of the teachers may have been consulted when it was drawn up. Sarah Eddy has not been identified.—Editor.] 2 Elizabeth Robson was a prominent English Friend who was in America at the same time as Thomas Shillitoe. 3 It is to be regretted that a better life of Thomas Shillitoe has not been written. The original "Journal," edited by A. R. Barclay, two volumes , London, 1839, has much repetition, and would be far more attractive if at least one-third were omitted. William Tallack, in 1867, published " Thomas Shillitoe, the Quaker Missionary and Temperance Pioneer," London, but it leaves much to be desired, and is out of print. Two or three tracts also have been written concerning him. ELIZABETH HOOTON. 53 The Testimonial. Our esteemed Schoolmate Sarah Eddy being about to leave for Great Brittain, we are induced from her orderly conduct whilst with us, to give her a few lines as a token of regard, accompanied with sincere wishes for her safe arrival at the destined Port, and that the distance which will part us, may not cancel that friendship, which commenced in youthful days at school. Signed by the pupils of Select School ioth mo. 29th, 1804. Mary Ann Eddy Susanna Vaux, jur. Hannah Howell Eliza H. Sansom Esther Fisher Jane Clark Abby Griffitts Mary Harlan Mary Lewis Lydia Poultney, junr. Rebecca C. Thompson Hannah Bacon Hannah Willis Ruth James Mary Pearson Margaretta Price Ann Bryant Rebecca W. Morris Hannah L. Howell Hannah Richardson Rebecca Drinker Ann Hopkins Martha Trasel Sarah Sheppard Hannah Perot Sarah Poultney Eliza Russell, junr. Hannah Griffitts Elizabeth Shoemaker Susan Smith Sarah Yarnall Ann Collins Mary Taylor, junr. ELIZABETH HOOTON, "FIRST QUAKER WOMAN PREACHER" (1600-1672).1 Those who have attempted any research in regard to this earliest woman minister among Friends will appreciate this carefully prepared historical monograph with the suggestive and informing notes by Norman Penney. It seems at first thought rather extraordinary that over two hundred and forty years have been allowed to pass, and a life !"Elizabeth Hooton, First Quaker Woman Preacher (1600-1672)." By Emily Manners, with notes, etc., by Norman Penney, F.S.A., F.R.Hist.Soc. London, Headley Brothers, Bishopsgate, E. C. Supplement No. 12, Journal of Friends' Historical Society, 1914. 9x6, viii, 95 pp. 4s. ...

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