Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES93 BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury FREDERICK B. TOLLES has contributed perhaps the first study yet made of the reading of a citizen of the Middle Colonies in his article "A Literary Quaker: John Smith of Burlington and Philadelphia," in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, lxv (1941), pp. 300-333. "DEFERRING to the South country members of the well-known York·*¦*¦ family of Quaker Tukes, W. H. Wilkin in Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 20 (1938), 72f remarks: "It must be almost if not quite unique for the head of an untitled family to appear for four generations in succession in the Dictionary of National Biography." A brother and a nephew of the fourth of these Tukes also appear in that work. TF IT has not been noted before in these pages, reference should be¦*- be made to a volume of nearly 700 pages published in 1936 at Strasburg , Va., entitled Hopwell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia. "ENTIRELY devoted to Quaker history, volume one, number one of *~* the Berwick Historical Society's publications, dated 1940, contains two principal articles on "History of Catawissa Friends' Meeting," by John E. Eshleman, and "The Friends, an Early Berwick Sect," by Jessie Marie Eves. The issue is illustrated with several pictures of the Catawissa and Berwick meeting houses. The publication was made possible by the gifts of over eighty descendente of first settlers. "VTEAR THE END of an article on the "Colonial Churches of Nanse- *^* mond County," Virginia, in the William and Mary Quarterly xxi (1941), 37 ff, George C. Mason gives an account of the Friends' meeting houses erected in the county, all before 1706. T"\ACRE, Darley, Scotton, Knaresborough, Killinghall, and Beckwith-·*-' shaw are singled out by H. R. Hodgson for notes on their Quaker historical associations in an article in the Bradford Antiquary, xxx (March 1939), p. 345 ff. SEVERAL ARTICLES dealing with Muncy Friends and their meetings are printed in Now and Then (Williamsport, Pa.), vol. 5 (1936). The authors are Katherine Kirk, M. Elizabeth Whitacre, Mrs. Charles E. Ecroyd, and others, and they have used among other sources the diaries of the early Friends, James Ecroyd and James Kiteley. Vol. 30, No. 2. Autumn 1941 94 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION "LTENRY County Institute of Science, at Trenton, Iowa, is the sub-·*¦¦*¦ ject of an article by Melvin Gingerich filling the entire February 1941 issue of The Palimpsest (xxii, 33-64). The founder, George Miller (1797-1869), was of Pennsylvania Quaker origin and had helped to organize a similar association in Media, Pennsylvania. He died soon after the Iowa Institute was launched. TN THE LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY A i (1939), 69-75 is an account of Lady "Deborah Moody, Grand Dame of Gravesend" by Alexander C. Flick. Born as Deborah Dunch about 1600, she came as a widow to the New World in 1640, and after buying estates at Salem and Lynn she settled in New Netherlands. The charter granting liberty of conscience was given in 1645. Herself an Anabaptist, she was hostess to the first Quakers. "Probably the first Quaker Meeting in the New World was held at her home." She died in 1659. OTUDENTS of William Penn will be interested in a letter from him ^ to Edward Southwell dated London, 20th 12 mo., 1704, printed and offered for sale in The Month at Goodspeed's, xii (1941), p. 256. It refers to "a stroke of illness that has much affected my head," eight years before the stroke which took his memory. THE ARTICLE on "John Quincy Adams and the Sloop 'Restoration'," A preprinted as a pamphlet and described in this Bulletin 29 (1940), 124-5, is now included as an appendix in T. C. Blegen's volume, Norwegian Migration to America, The American Transition (Northfield, Minn., 1940), pp. 599-628. O N THE OCCASION of the 200th anniversary of the founding of ^-^ Exeter, New Hampshire, The Exeter News Letter for June 12, 1941 prints an article by Enoch W. Pearson telling of another near romance of the poet Whittier, this time for Rowena Thyng, who in 1840 was teaching school at Red Oak Hill near Epping and Lee...