John Bispham, the latter's wife having been Margaret, daughter of Patrick Reynolds, and who became a Friend. Her family, of course, were members of the Church of England, and the records have not yet revealed the identity of this James.

One of the wardens of Christ Church in Philadelphia, in 1778 was James Reynolds. A James Reynolds of Monmouth, N. J., married June 23, 1729, Rebecca Parent, of the same place. (N. J. Archives, Ist. Ser. XXII, 321.) A James Reynolds and Judith Riebler, or Replier, were married February 16, 1762, at the Lutheran Church of St. Michael's and Zion, in Philadelphia.

Sarah Morris (1703-1775)

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Daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Morris, of Philadelphia. Born in 1703. When she was seventeen, her father on his deathbed said of her that “she never had disobeyed him, and was his Comfort." Her first religious tour was made with Margaret Ellis as companion. In 1764 accompanied by Joyce, wife of Anthony Benezet, and Elizabeth Smith, the maiden sister of Samuel and John Smith, of Burlington, N. J., she went on a religious visit to New England. Her mother received her close attention to the advanced age of ninety four years. After her death, Sarah Morris, accompanied by her niece, Deborah Morris, sailed with a Minute from her meeting for service in England, setting out from Philadelphia for London in the spring of 1772, shortly before John Woolman. They attended the same Yearly Meeting of that year, and Sarah Morris and her niece were also at the following one, after which she returned home in the autumn of 1773. Several other Friends from Great Britain crossed with them on the return voyage. She accompanied Mary Leaver and Elizabeth Robinson in some family visits in Philadelphia in the winter of 1773-4, and was at New York Yearly meeting in the spring.

Sarah Morris was stricken with dropsy, and was carried to her last meeting in Philadelphia, 6mo. 4, 1775. She died 10m0. 24, 1775, aged seventy two years, having been a recognized minister for thirty one.

[Testimony of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, "Coll. of Memorials,” p. 334. Friends' Library, vi, 478-80.]

Son of Thomas Thornborough, of New Garden, N. C. Accom! William Hunt to England in 1771, and the latter wrote Thomas

Thornborough, Senior, from York, under date, "6mo. 27, 1771," "As to thy son, let it suffice he is well in the Seed; we travel in true unity and perfect harmony." Thomas Thornborough, Jr., was William Hunt's nephew, of whom, however, he sometimes speaks in his letters as "cousin."

Thomas Thornborough, Jr., died of smallpox while in Pennsylvania on his return from a second religious visit to Europe, before reaching his own home, in 1787.

[Life, William Hunt, pp. 103, 134.]

John Townsend (1725-1801)

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Of London, pewterer. He was a modest but respected Friend, and acceptable preacher, who made, apparently without scruple, "Guinea basins" for the African slave trade, and for the army and navy, reasoning that these people all had to be fed. The basins received their name from the Guinea coast, whence came the trade in negroes. One of John Townsend's Quaker apprentices refused to make these basins.

His first visit to America was not undertaken until after the death of John Woolman, when he mentions making a visit to "the widow Woolman." He came in company with Thomas Colley and John Storer, the first Friends to cross the ocean on religious visits in an interval of ten years after the American Revolution. He was very short of stature, and his friend, Thomas Colley, was very tall. They furnished together some amusement to the sailors of their vessel on that account. John Townsend's red-spotted handkerchief, worn about his neck, has gone down on record as a great burden on the minds of his American Friends. Jacob Lindley, at Chesterfield M. M. in Ist mo. 1785, preached in a marked manner against the use by Friends of carved silver buckles, and red-spotted handkerchiefs. (See Journal of John Hunt, Fr'ds' Miscel. X. 238.) When John Townsend was in Philadelphia, John Hunt wrote him from Evesham, N. J., 3mo. 25, 1786, in a letter quoted by himself in his diary: "There are many well-concerned Friends in our parts, and up and down on our continent, that do think that wearing of such a Redspotted Handkerchief will take the edge off and lessen the weight of thy testimony & peculiar service respecting the libertine appearance of our youth." "I have been very long pained to see these spotted handkerchiefs so much tolerated amongst ministers and elders. . . . I have observed that a red-spotted handkerchief is one of the first things that our children begin to crave and tease their parents for," and John Hunt adds that one of his own boys had wanted one!

John Townsend's house was a stopping place for many Friends in London. He died at the age of seventy six in 1801.

(See "Recollections of Spitalfields," by Theodore Compton, 1908; and "The British Friend," for 1874.)

John Haslam (1690-1773)

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1773, at

of Handsworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire. Born 1690, died the age of eighty three. A preacher for fifty seven years. In company with Edmund Peckover, Samuel Hopwood, Eleazar Sheldon and Christopher Wilson, he came to America on a religious visit in 1742, and going hastily from New York, where they landed "16th day of the 7th. month" (September), they succeeded in reaching Burlington, New Jersey in time for the Yearly Meeting then just begun. Here no doubt he first met John Woolman, a serious youth of twenty two, not yet "recommended" to the ministry, which occurred the next year. John Haslam, in poor health, was unable to travel south with Edmund Peckover, who went direct to Maryland; but retired to Haddonfield, where he made his home during the following winter with Elizabeth Estaugh, visiting Friends in the Jerseys and Pennsylvania at the time that John Estaugh was making his visit to Tortola, from which he never returned.

John Haslam made one preaching tour on the continent of Europe, and two visits to Ireland. See letter of John Woolman dated from the home of John Haslam, 1772. (cf. "Piety Promoted" pt. IX. Bowden, Hist. Fr'ds in Amer. II. p. 243. Journal, Fr'ds Hist. Soc. London, Vol. I.)

Daniel Stanton visited John Haslam in 1749, and held a meeting at his house. "A dear Friend," he writes, "who had been very acceptable in his religious visits to Friends in America, and had visited the churches, to the great comfort of the faithful: his agreeable company at his own house received our fresh unity in pure and lasting Friendship" &c. [Friends' Library XII. p. 159.]

Rachel Wilson (1722-1775)

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Daughter of John and Deborah Wilson of Kendal; for many years a prominent minister: In 1742 she married Isaac Wilson, and later visited America, arriving in November, 1768. “She was remarkably interesting and eloquent, and much admired by people of all classes." She attended Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in the autumn of 1769, and during a sermon, when about to speak of her own services, she suddenly changed and addressed herself directly to