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BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury Between 1886 and 1894, Dr. David S. Kellogg interviewed a number of elderly citizens in Clinton County, New York. These interviews have now been edited by Allan S. Everest and published by the Clinton County Historical Association at Plattsburg under the title Recollections of Clinton County and the Battle of Plattsburg, 1800-1840 (1964, 75 pages). The battle described in several of the autobiographical chapters occurred in 1814; hence this is a Sesquicentennial Memorial Edition. The reminiscences of Stephen Keese Smith (1806-1887) on pages 55-61 tell a good deal about the Quakers who had a meetinghouse and settlement at the Union, "a couple of miles south of the present village of Peru." They were active in the Underground Railroad, nearly the last station before Canada. * * » An attractive hardbound booklet entitled Quaker Meeting Houses, Burial Grounds, Properties and Funds in the area of York Monthly Meeting (printed for the Monthly Meeting by William Sessions, Ltd., York, England, 40 pages) illustrates how such business detail can be presented in summary to interest local members of a Quaker community in the history of Friends' properties. And York and its environs had many. * * * D. G. Brinton Thompson has written on John Thompson of Nether Compton , Dorset, and Philadelphia, Quaker schoolmaster and merchant, and his Philadelphia descendants, in The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, XXIII (1964), 141-160. * * * Lewis E. Weeks Jr., reviews Whittier criticism over the years in Essex Institute Historical Collections, C (1964), 159-182. Merle T. Westlake, Jr., writes an article "Josiah Fox: Gentleman, Quaker, Shipbuilder," in The Pennsylvania Magazine ofHistory and Biography, LXXXVIII (1964), 316-327. * * * Caroline Nicholson Jacob, having edited an account of the family of Joshua Jacob, written by one of them (see this Bulletin, L [1961], 122), has now prepared a History of the Jacob Family in England, Ireland and America (1964, 54 pages, mimeographed, single space). In spite of its unpretentious size and form and purpose—it is intended mainly for the grandchildren of the above named Joshua—it is a skilful and informative picture of a Quaker family, mostly in Ireland, in nine selected chapters. It links with nearly all other Irish Quaker families. Official minutes and private letters are integrated into local and temporal and economic historical perspective, but without interference of elaborate documentation. Unless it be Isabel Grubb's Quakers in Ireland, there is nothing to match this for insight into orthodox and unorthodox Irish Quakerism. 58 Briefer Notices59 The Ward Lecture in 1964 was by James F. Walker on The World-wide Society of Friends: Introduction and History (Guilford College, 23 pages). It deals appropriately with the Friends World Committee, which is planning to hold the next World Conference in 1967 on the Guilford College campus. * * * G. B. Worden writing on "The Proprietary Group in Pennsylvania, 17541764 " in the William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, XXI (1964), 367-389, analyzes skilfully the political and economic rise to influence of the principal group opposed to Franklin and the Friends in the affairs of the Quaker Colony. * * * It is a well known fact that the problem of a Quaker legislature in colonial Pennsylvania, expected to support military policies of Great Britain, came to a crisis in the 1750's and that the Quakers under advice from their English colleagues resigned in substantial numbers or refused to run for office. This episode is interpreted by Francis Jennings not as a problem of conscience but of unsuspected political intrigue in an article on "Thomas Perm's Loyalty Oath" in the American Journal of Legal History, VIII (1964), 303-313. If he has correctly interpreted the evidence, then Thomas Penn was behind a plan to oust the Quaker oligarchy, to which he was opposed, by proposing to the Privy Council a loyalty oath as a requirement for colonial assemblies. The oath was never passed and the Quakers were not defeated, but they made a temporary strategic retreat and their successors were even more hostile to Thomas Penn than they had been. One of Penn's few allies in the colony, Reverend William Smith, was found out to have written two anonymous anti-Quaker pamphlets. Not by intent but by accident the plot...

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