The Narragansett Friends Meeting in the Xviii Century With a Chapter On Quaker
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They are preserved in a small quarto volume, which cost fourteen shil- lings, as the first entry duly records. Anna Perry was the first clerk, and served for fifteen years. Her vagaries of spelling are delightfully individual. The meetings were always called " a Pon, " and she was fre- quently appointed " to Draw an a Piffel to the Quarterly Meeting. " It must have been difficult for the women to meet regularly, riding, as they had to, from Richmond or Westerly to Tower Hill, or from Tower Hill... to the other meetings. Often, when the meetings were called " a Pon, " the entry comes, " So Kingstown now a Pear- rence, Westerly now a Pearrence Notwith- ftanding the Vifitors has Maid Some Pro- grefs in Vifiting the familys of friends and are in Some Degree Satisfied theirwith, " and the " a Piffel " was drawn and signed. In 1758 a new clerk succeeded, as the women were " under a Weighty fence of the Loss it is to the Meeting not having a Clerk Abilitated to Attend the Service. " The present clerk informed that she could not, and " the Meeting thinks Proper To be Looking out for one " that may attend.
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