Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury ?G?? Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, vol. 13 (1944), pp. 94-106, contains an article by James A. Müller on "George Keith (1638-1716), First S. P. G. Missionary to America." It is based in part on E. W. Kirby"s recent biography though it criticizes and supplements that work. The new material appears to be quotations in his own words of Keith's criticisms of Quakerism. A NNA ELIZABETH DICKINSON (1842-1932) was a birthright¦^^ Philadelphia Friend who at the age of eighteen turned to a career as orator. She spoke first against slavery, then against the Democrats in the elections of 1862-3, and then against Lincoln's party within the Republican ranks. James Harvey Young has written in the Mississippi Valley Hùtorical Review, vol. 31 (1944), pp. 59-80, about this part of her life under the title "Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and the Civil War; for and against Lincoln." His sources are newspapers and letters, and especially her own manuscripts and scrap-books now at the Library of Congress . The brief account of A. E. Dickinson in the Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement One (vol. 21, 1944) is by the same author.«OHARLES FOTHERGILL 1782-1840" is the subject of an article with portrait in The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 25 (1944), pp. 376-3%. The author, James L. Baillie, Jr., relying upon sixteen holograph manuscripts by him, discovered since J931, and other sources, describes him as a figure of importance in the history of Upper Canada and as the author of practically the only account of the animal life of the Province. His father and earlier forbears were Friends, Dr. John Fothergill being a great uncle. His interest in breeding race-horses in Yorkshire is said to have been responsible for his virtual banishment from the sect and from England, but his interest in science was characteristic both of his family and of their religion. He came to Canada in 1816 and held various offices and engaged in various personal enterprises. "PENNSYLVANIA Quaker family and religious life in the latter half of the eighteenth century is portrayed in dark colors in "Early Days of the Ingham Family in Bucks County," by Joseph F. Ingham, in collaboration with Francis R. Taylor, Old York Road Historical Society Bulletin, 6 (1942): 45-64. This article is made up largely of excerpts from an autobiographical memoir of Jonas Ingham, born 1746. It is a document of great significance, principally because it reveals at first hand aspects of eighteenth-century human relations which are omitted in most secondary accounts of the times. Jonas Ingham's wife's name is erroneously given as Rebecca Beaumont (p. 57). The manuscript copy of his 95Vol. 34, Autumn 1915 96 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION memoir, in private possession, indicates that Jonas married Rebecca's sister, Elizabeth. Microfilm copies of the manuscript have recently been presented by Francis R Taylor to the Haverford and Swarthmore libraries. AyfERION MEETING, founded in 1695 by Welsh Quakers in the·"·*¦ Welsh Tract just west of Philadelphia, celebrated its "Quarter Millennium," or 250th anniversary, on September 16, 1945. An account of the ceremonies, which was held in the old meeting house, appeared in the Friends Intelligencer, vol. 102 (Tenth Month 6, 1945), p. 645. Former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts spoke on "Friends of Peace." Rufus M. Jones spoke on the subject, "Great Expectations for the New Day." In connection with the anniversary the Meeting published an interesting sixteen-page booklet by Samuel J. Bunting, Jr., Merion Meeting House 1695-1945: A Study of Evidence Relating to the Date (Merion Friends' Meeting, Merion, Pa.). The available evidence, while not conclusive , seems to point to 1695 as the date for the construction of the original east wing, while the "crossing and transepts" were added in 1712. Photographs of the building, as it now stands and before the outside walls were plastered, are included in the booklet. /^ENEALOGICAL information about the Hampton family is to be ^"^ found in a book by Vernon Boyce Hampton entitled In the Footsteps of Joseph Hampton and the Pennsylvania Quakers (Doylestown, Pa., The Bucks County Historical...