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OUTFITS OF TRAVELLING MINISTERS, 18TH CENTURY 135 SouthwardEdward Perkins. NansemumMatthew Atkinson. Accamack Pongaleg, by Accamack Shore Pocamock Bay AnnamesiaAmbrose Dickson. Mody-Creek in Ac- 1 „ , , y Georqe Johnson, camack.j Savidge-NeckRobert Harris. NesswatakesGeorge Brickhouse. OcahanackJames Jackson. Mody-CreekJohn Parsons. AnnamessiahGeorge Johnson, and George Willson. Note.—Taken from: Christian Epistles Travels and Sufferings of That Antient Servant of Christ, John Boweter; Who departed this Life, the i6th of the nth Month, 1704. Aged about 75 Years ___London, Printed and Sold, by T. Sowie, in White-Hart Court in Gracious-Street, 1705. PP- 55-57· OUTFITS OF TRAVELLING MINISTERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. That Friends who were liberated for religious service in the early days of the Society were carefully looked after is abundantly evident from the Meeting records.1 The practice, as all know, has been continued to the present time.2 While the principle and practice of forwarding missionary service have been preserved, the character of the outfits has somewhat changed as the following papers3 will show. "See Bowden, History of Friends in America, vol. 1, pp. 58, 59; "Epistles," etc. Historical Introduction, vol. 1, p. 9, London, 1858. 2A conspicuous example is the amount contributed towards the expenses of our late Friend Isaac Sharp in his extended visits to the Orient, Australasia, Greenland and elsewhere. "The accounts are taken from the papers given to the Friends' Historical Society by Joseph H. Coates. See Bulletin, Sixth Month, 1909, p. 103. I36 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY The first account relates to the well-known Friend John Griffith, of England, whose "Journal" contains so much of interest regarding both English and American Friends of the Eighteenth Century. The paper is undated, but it undoubtedly refers to his homeward voyage in 1766. He states in his "Journal ," "I then embarked [at Chester, Pennsylvania] on board the ship Phebe, Capt. Mungo Davison ; we got under sail about two o'clock the next morning, and on first-day, the 16th of the nth month [1766] about four o'clock in the afternoon we got to sea." It was a very "stormy and rough" voyage, the vessel leaking so badly that they "were obliged to keep one hand at the pump night and day all the passage .... On the twentyfifth day of the 12th month, in the evening, we put into the safe port of Dartmouth. I then resolved to leave the ship."1 It was well he did so for the vessel beat about the Channel for seven weeks longer before reaching its destination, London. "John Reynell Treasurer to Yearly Meeting Stock To John Pemberton Dr. For Sundrys purchased for Sea Stores of Our frd J. Griffith. 2 Shoats 25/. 4 Bushels of Indian Corn 13/ ......... £1.18. 4 Dozen of Beer & Bottles @ 9/ .................... 1.16. 12 Bottles Madeira Wine & Bottles @ 9/ ............. 1. 3.3 6 Bottles Madeira Wine 1% Galls & bottles ...........17.4 A Case Cost 20/6 qt. [ ?] 2 Galls Spirits @ 6/ & 4J4 Galls, rum @ 4/ ............................ 2. 9.6 A Cag Biscuit ................................... 10.¿8.14.? Another account relates to a worthy Friend Thomas Gawthrop . Thomas Gawthorp [or Gawthrop] of Preston Patrick, a hamlet, six or eight miles from Kendal, in Westmoreland, England , was born in 1709. His parents were Friends, but either one or both of them died when he was quite a boy and he was sent to Leeds as an apprentice. He seems to have had a hard situation, for before his time was up he left his master and enlisted in the army. He became much dissatified and after nearly "'Journal of John Griffith." Philadelphia, 1780, pp. 422, 424. OUTFITS OF TRAVELLING MINISTERS, 18TH CENTURY 137 five years of service an officer took pity on him and offered to procure his discharge, provided he would return the money he had received on enlisting. This he finally agreed to, and when he had earned it by labor he paid it over and was discharged. He went to Skipton, Yorkshire, and then to Kendal. Meanwhile he had become an earnest convinced Friend. Not long after, he married a young woman, a Friend of Preston Patrick Meeting. He removed to that village and it remained his home for the rest of his...

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