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78 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS* HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION tell of the beliefs and practices of the Society of Friends, and concludes with an historical sketch of the beginnings of Quakerism in New England and the struggles and persecutions of some of the early Friends. Accompanying this article is a picture of Willis H. White, the presiding Clerk of Providence Monthly Meeting. —The Westonian, Summer Number, 1928, pp. 13 ff., prints a list of rules and arrangements drawn up for Ackworth School in 1799. —Among many recent references to the Quaker background of Herbert Hoover may be mentioned in particular the July 1928 issue of The Palimpsest , the monthly magazine of the State Historical Society of Iowa. The whole number is devoted to a single Iowa community lying between the Iowa and Cedar rivers on the Iowa City—Rochester road. This community was and remains largely Quaker, including the towns of West Branch and Springdale. The issue accordingly is a small bit of local Quaker history as will be seen by the titles of the several brief articles: "The Lay of the Land," "The Coming of the Quakers" (by Louis T. Jones, abridged from his Quakers of Iowa), "The Inner Light," "Dusky Lading" (on the Underground Railroad), "John Brown's Band" (by Irving B. Richman, abridged from his John Brown among the Quakers), " The Scattergood Seminary," " Bert Hoover " (recollections of Herbert Hoover), "Boyhood in Iowa" (recollections by Herbert Hoover), "The Community Clubs." The illustrations include, beside a map, pictures of the meeting house and high school at Springdale, the Scattergood Seminary , Hoover's birthplace, a picture of Hoover as a boy, the old John Brown House. NOTES AND QUERIES On Fifth Month 26, 1928, the members of Friends' Historical Association were fortunate in finding clear skies to greet them for the annual summer outing and under favorable auspices set out for Old Kennett Meeting House. Assembling there, the President opened the proceedings promptly and a large and interested audience listened with pleasure to Ellen PyIe Groff's account of Kennett meeting, its origin and stories of its founders. On the conclusion of her address, J. Carroll Hayes read a history of Indian Hannah, a carefully garnered store of remembrance of this picturesque and romantic figure of the last of the Lenni Lenape Indians in Chester County. The interest and pleasure with which the Association heard these two papers was evident from the remarks of the audience on the rising of the meeting for adjournment to Longwood. Before adjournment, the meeting attended to two matters of importance —the first the adoption of a seal for the Association, a matter which has NOTES AND QUERIES79 long held the attention of the Directors. On their recommendation, a design based on the coat of arms of William Penn, worked out under the care of the Sites and Relics Committee under the chairmanship of Horace Mather Lippincott, was adopted. Albert Cook Myers then presented the following resolution: "Resolved, that the Board of Directors of Friends' Historical Association appoint a Committee of ten members of the Association to cooperate with the Haverford College Alumni Association, Westtown Alumni Association, and the Chester County Historical Society, in the endeavor to bring about the erection of a suitable marker at the birthplace of Isaac Sharpless, the Quaker Fisherman, Astronomer, Historian, Educator and President of Haverford College." This resolution being duly seconded was unanimously adopted. The meeting then adjourned to Longwood Meeting House (see frontispiece ) where, in the beautifully simple setting chosen by " Progressive Friends " for their meeting house in Anti^Slavery times, the Association heard with appreciation an account of Longwood Meeting from Charles J. Pennock, including its championship of unpopular causes—many of which today are won—and from Mabel P. Foulk, a delightful story of Bayard Taylor and his family relations. The " Golden Wedding of Longwood," by John Greenleaf Whittier, so closely associated with Longwood, was read by Anna B. Lamborn Polk. The Association finally adjourned to a picnic supper under the shelter of the meeting house trees and, after sociable visiting from one group to another, they dispersed to their homes, with memories full of the histories so pleasantly recounted among such interesting surroundings and with warm gratitude for...