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Women's minutes & accounts. Hogsty End/Hogsty End & Sherrington MM

1771-1790

From: 1771 To: 1790

4to vol., 144 pp. minutes, with brief accounts of collection interspersed Indications as to organisation:- YM, overseas, travelling Friends, & national visitation: p. 93 YM epistle of women Friends read, 1785; also from our beloved Friends in America (see also for America pp. 117, 127, 136) p. 104 YM women raise the question of Bibles for the poor, 1786 p. 86 American Friend, Patience Brayton, Massachusetts, visits, accompanied by Margt. Shillito, London: "savour of love truly acceptable" p. 41 national visitation: no separate meeting from men, on account of a visit we were favoured with from the Friends upon the national visitation 1777 p. 135 travelling Friend: Esther Brady, Thorne, Yorks. - truly acceptable 1789 Local indications: p. 31 first meeting at Leighton noted 1774 p. 114 places of reps. are given (Sherington, Brickhill, Leighton; none Olney, Woburn, Aspley) 1787 p. 55 clerk: Sus. Heley 1779 p. 119 term "preparative meeting" first used (trouble in spelling) 1787 p. 81 junction with Sherington "in brotherly love & Christian condescension" by men Friends; (hence forth meeting sometimes at Sherington) 1787 p. 113 overseers for Sherington: Lydia Cuthbertson, Olney Eliz. Cuthbertson, Newport Routine business: queries (ebtered p.3); marriage; representatives Discipline: all described as "bad conduct" p. 24 Ann Marks & Const. White; visited; no satisfaction, 1774 p. 71 Ann Ward; no satisfaction 1782 pp. 103-6 Eliz. Pattison: will be more circumspect 1786 Poor: p. 37 E. Hall for firing p. 48 Hannah Brown's age & infirmity: only able to travel in carriage; postchaise to QM at Wycombe £1.13.3 1778 p. 101 Ruth Farmer, Olney, 10s.6d.; Sus. Maples, Woburn, 10s. 1786 p. 115 Shirt for Jn. Weston 1787 p. 140 coal for poor family 1789 Finance: p. 96 men's stock exhausted; help asked; women give 2 gns. 1785 Misc.: p.76, 89 bad weather 1782, 1785 p. 134 Mary Exton's funeral; p.135 Ann Bassett first noted, 1789

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Brayton, Patience,
Shillito, Margaret,
Brady, Esther,
Heley, Susannah,
Cuthbertson, Lydia,
Cuthbertson, Elizabeth,
Marks, Ann,
White, Constance,
Ward, Ann,
Pattison, Elizabeth,
Hall, E.,
Brown, Hannah,
Farmer, Ruth,
Maples, Sus.,
Weston, John,
Exton, Mary,
Bassett, Ann

Society of Friends meetings, Sherington, Hogsty End, accounts, North America, Bible, Massachusetts, Yorkshire, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Olney, Aspley, WOBURN, Great Brickhill, general marriage