Notes and Queries

NOTES AND QUERIES37 NOTES AND QUERIES The Annual Meeting of Friends' Historical Association was held at the Friends' Meeting House, 15th and Race Streets, Philadelphia, 11 mo. 30, 1926. Miscellaneous business was transacted and the two amendments to the Constitution, printed in the Bulletin (14:25, 92), were adopted. Directors were elected for the ensuing year and they in turn elected officers. (For list of Officers and Directors see page ii of this Bulletin.) Professor John W. Graham, of the Howard M. Jenkins Chair of Quaker History and Research, Swarthmore College, read a valuable paper which is printed as the leading article in this number of the Bulletin. An interesting array of historical manuscripts and articles from the collections of the Association was exhibited. Good progress is again recorded in the Annual Report (1925) of the John Woolman Memorial Association. About two thousand people from all parts of the United States and from England have visited the memorial house, which is now under the efficient care of Lillian Kauffman. About fifteen hundred meals have been served in the tea room. Here is a monument of the past that is also a going concern of the present. It deserves wide and generous support. Those wishing to join the Association should address Amelia M. Gummere, Haverford, PennsylOur friend Norman Penney is beginning the long task of preparing a definitive edition of the Journal of George Fox for general use, to take the place of the Bicentenary Edition. It will be based largely on the Cambridge edition, and the Tercentenary Supplement, with spelling, etc. modernized. It will thus be meant for general reading rather than for scholarly research, but will be much fuller than any popular edition printed heretofore. Travel in America one hundred and sixty-five years ago had its trials and tribulations. Some of these hardships are recorded by Elizabeth Wilkinson in her "Journal of a Religious Visit to America, 1761-1763." This English Quakeress traveled south to the Carolinas and north to Boston, journeying 4,327 miles on horseback. We read in her journal : "12th Mo. 17th D. 1761 (Maryland) Rid to Post Tobacco and lodged at an Inn having crossed the Patuxent, 14 bridges and other dangerous places yet were mercifully preserved safe :" "7th Mo. 21st D. 1762. These last three days ride being thro' the colony of Connecticutt where there were no Friends, the road being stoney and the season very hot made it unpleasant traveling and I had a fall off my new mare in turning out of a river but thro' mercy not much hurt." 38 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. "8th Mo. 7th D. 1762 (New Jersey) I may remark that in all our travels thro' these Salt marshes we have mett with few musketoes which was a kindness to us for they don't agree well with English Folks." (Contributed by George H. Renninger.) An event new in the annals of Quaker missionary effort, if not in the history of Christian missions, occurred recently in China. A Chinese General , Lei Fuk Lam, gave his infant son to Dr. William W. Cadbury to be reared and educated. Dr. and Mrs. Cadbury have adopted the child. Daughters are often given away in this manner, but so far as is known this is the first gift of a son. Dr. Cadbury, formerly of Philadelphia, is a physician attached to the Canton Christian College. His services have won the respect of General Lei Fuk Lam. who has been otherwise very antagonistic to the white race. Public Ledger (Phila.), 1 mo. 10, 1926. In The Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 11 mo. 30, 1925, is printed a paper by our fellow member, Colonel Henry D. Paxson, on the "Figurehead of Chief Tammany." This figurehead (or bust) was taken from the old Ship-of-the-line Delaware (1820) when it was dismantled many years ago, and it now stands on the campus of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. It has formerly been identified as a representation of King Philip, Tecumseh, or other famous Indians. Colonel Paxson has proved from the records of the Navy Department that the correct identification is the great Delaware Chief, Tammany,—an appropriate figure to associate...