[571] Futhey and Cope mention a school at Birmingham as early as 1753, Hist. Chester Co., 302.

[572] Min. Goshen Mo. Mtg., 6-11-1779.

[573] Ibid.

[574] Ibid., 1-11-1782.

[575] Min. Goshen Mo. Mtg., 3-8-1782.

[576] Ibid., 1-9-1784.

[577] Ibid.

[578] Ibid., 8-6-1784.

[579] Ibid., 8-5-1785.

[580] Min. Goshen Mo. Mtg., 8-11-1786.

[581] Ibid., 8-10-1787.

[582] Ibid., 7-6-1792.

[583] See page 132.

[584] Min. Goshen Mo. Mtg., 4-10-1795.

[585] Ibid., 8-5-1796.

[586] See page 132.

[587] Min. Goshen Mo. Mtg., 8-11-1797.

[588] Ibid.

[589] Ibid., 8-10-1798.

[590] See page 131.

[591] See page 73f.

[592] Min. Goshen Mo. Mtg., 1-6-1797.

[593] Min. Chester Q. Mtg., 9-9-1719.

[594] Ibid., 3-10-1725.

[595] See page 122; also Bunting, 51.

[596] Min. Bradford Mo. Mtg., 6-18-1762.

[597] Ibid.

[598] Ibid., 12-13-1765.

[599] Ibid., 4-7-1767.

[600] Ibid., 8-14-1767.

[601] Min. Bradford Mo. Mtg., 12-15-1778.

[602] Ibid., 2-12-1779.

[603] See page 133f.

[604] Min. Bradford Mo. Mtg., 5-12-1780.

[605] Min. Bradford Mo. Mtg., 2-16-1781.

[606] Ibid., 6-16-1781.

[607] Ibid., 2-16-1781.

[608] Ibid., 6-16-1781.

[609] Ibid., 9-14-1781.

[610] Ibid., 2-15-1782.

[611] Ibid., 8-15-1783.

[612] Ibid., 2-13-1784.

[613] Min. Bradford Mo. Mtg., 9-14-1792.

[614] Min. Uwchlan Mo. Mtg., 8-3-1763, 22.

[615] Ibid., 3-1-1765, 66.

[616] Ibid., 11-7-1782, 132.

[617] Ibid., 12-5-1782, 106.

[618] Min. Uwchlan Mo. Mtg., 12-4-1783, 158.

[619] Ibid., 2-5-1784, 162.

[620] Ibid., 2-10-1785, 184.

[621] Min. Bradford Mo. Mtg., 8-9-1787, 235.

[622] Min. London Grove Mtg., 12-3-1794, 56.

[623] Ibid., 3-4-1795, 62.

[624] Ibid., 7-1-1795, 73.

[625] Min. London Grove Mtg., 11-4-1795, 78.

[626] Futhey and Cope, Hist. Chester Co., 239.

[627] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 3-6-1739, 7.

[628] Ibid., 6-21-1769, 180.

[629] Ibid., 1-20-1779, 297.

[630] Ibid., 2-20-1779, 298.

[631] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 6-19-1782, 337.

[632] Ibid.

[633] Ibid., 3-21-1787, 39f.

[634] Ibid., 6-17-1789, 70.

[635] Ibid.

[636] Futhey and Cope, Hist. Chester Co., 239.

[637] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 2-22-1792, 106.

[638] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 3-21-1792, 107.

[639] Ibid., 5-23-1792, 109.

[640] Ibid., 7-10-1792, 112.

[641] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 4-17-1793. 120.

[642] Ibid., 5-13-1793, 121.

[643] Ibid., 9-18-1793, 125.

[644] Ibid., 12-10-1793, 128.

[645] Ibid., 1-7-1798, 175.

[646] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 7-19-1797, 168.

[647] Ibid., 4-24-1799, 187.

[648] Bunting, 40, 39, 19 and 42, respectively; also first vols. of each respective meeting’s records.

[649] Smith, Hist. Del. Co., 138; see also page 41, chapter on Philadelphia.

[650] Ibid., 139.

[651] Clarkson’s Penn, I, 259; Hazard’s Annals, 695.

[652] Rec. Upland Court, 121; Smith, Hist. Del. Co., 121; Hazard, Annals, 462.

[653] Would not likely take the case to court.

[654] It appears from a record of sale that the court house was sold to Robert Wade, 1686. (Record of sale quoted in Jordan, Hist. Del. Co., I, 112.)

[655] Jordan, Hist. Del. Co., I, 104; Smith, Hist. Del. Co., 137.

[656] Smith, Hist. Del. Co., 166.

[657] Rec. of Chester Mo. Mtg., 1687, I.; Smith, 166.

[658] Smith, 188.

[659] Jordan, II, 441.

[660] Jordan, II, 441.

[661] Ibid.

[662] Ibid.

[663] Min. Chester Mo. Mtg., 1-27-1800.

[664] Jordan, II, 43-45.

[665] Ibid.

[666] The absence of any mention of it in the meeting records.

[667] The writer was unable to find a record of this deed.

[668] No committee reports were noted before that date.

[669] See chapter on Negroes, page 228.

[670] Min. Chester Mo. Mtg., 1-28-1782, 87.

[671] Ibid.

[672] Ibid.

[673] Ibid., 4-29-1782.

[674] Ibid.

[675] Ibid., 7-28-1783, 130.

[676] Ibid.

[677] Min. Chester Mo. Mtg., 4-30-1792, 347.

[678] Ibid., 12-26-1796, 447.

[679] Ibid., 1-27-1800, 508.

[680] Ibid., 5-30-1791, 319.

[681] Min. Chester Mo. Mtg.

[682] Ibid., 9-23-1785, 177.

[683] Min. Chester Q. Meeting, 12-3-1689, 7.

[684] Min. Chester Q. Mtg., 6-14-1732, 128.

[685] Ibid., 9-13-1732, 129.

[686] Ibid., 6-13-1739, 154.

[687] Advices, 250.

[688] Min. Chester Q. Mtg., 5-13-1754, 218.

[689] Smith, Hist. of Del. Co., 166.

[690] Ibid.

[691] Ibid.

[692] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 7-7-1692, 54.

[693] Ibid., 9-20-1693, 56.

[694] See Falls p. 87f.; Abington, p. 105ff.; and Buckingham, p. 96f.

[695] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg. 7-5-1758, 441; 7-5-1750, 322.

[696] Ibid., 12-3-1778, 263.

[697] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg.

[698] Ibid.

[699] Ibid., 2-25-1779, 259.

[700] See page 154.

[701] Ibid., 3-1-1781, 319.

[702] Ibid., 3-29-1781, 320.

[703] Ibid., 1-1-1784, 10.

[704] Ibid., 7-29-1784, 22.

[705] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 3-29-1787, 68.

[706] Ibid., 11-1-1787, 79.

[707] Ibid., 4-2-1789, 99f.

[708] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 1-28-1790, 114. (For entire report see page 23).

[709] Ibid., 8-2-1792, 157.

[710] Ibid., 11-29-1792, 160.

[711] Ibid., 3-28-1793, 165.

[712] Ibid., 5-2-1793, 166.

[713] Ibid.

[714] Ibid., 7-26-1796, 207.

[715] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 8-2-1798, 243.

[716] Jordan, II, 432.

[717] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg. 1739, 258; 7-5-1750, 322.

[718] Ibid., 8-3-1797, 226.

[719] Ibid., 8-2-1798, 243.

[720] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 1739, 258. (Other bequests were made by Blunston and ... the value of which in 1791, amounted to £97 15/6; the committee reporting thereon, add: “we are united in opinion it will be best to lay out the money in a building on the meeting lot and in order thereto have had an estimate made for a house 16 ft. by 26 ft. from out to out, two stories high with a cellar under the whole, which amounts to £160 or thereabouts.” A Committee was appointed to see whether this would be according to the wish of the donor, Darby Minutes 12-29-1791, 145. In 1792 the committee reported it would be best to build the house for the master’s accommodation with the money of the legacies, and use the rents arising therefrom for the schooling of poor children, Darby Minutes, 2-2-1792, 147.)

[721] Smith, Hist. of Del. County, 347.

[722] Min. Radnor Mo. Mtg., 1-11-1731, 189.

[723] Ibid., 1-11-1757, 300.

[724] Min. Radnor Mo. Mtg., see also page 228, chapter on Negro education.

[725] Min. Radnor Mo. Mtg., 4-10-1759, 28.

[726] Ibid., 12-8-1768, 220.

[727] Ibid., 1-7-1759, 18.

[728] Advices, 250.

[729] Min. Radnor Mo. Mtg., 8-14-1778, 133.

[730] Min. Radnor Mo. Mtg., 10-13-1778, 139.

[731] Ibid., 7-13-1779, 169.

[732] Ibid., 7-10-1781, 233.

[733] Min. Phila. Q. Mtg., 8-6-1781, 235.

[734] Min. Radnor Mo. Mtg., 9-7-1782, 260.

[735] Ibid., 7-11-1786, 4.

[736] Ibid., 7-13-1790, 8.

[737] Min. Radnor Mo. Mtg., 7-12-1791, 24.

[738] Jordan, II, 429.

[739] Min. Concord Mo. Mtg., 8-4-1779, 94.

[740] Jordan, II, 430.

[741] Min. Concord Mo. Mtg., 8-4-1779, 94.

[742] Ibid., 12-5-1781, 193.

[743] Ibid.

[744] Ibid., 3-3-1784, 275.

[745] Ibid., 8-4-1779, 94.

[746] Ibid., 8-9-1786, 370.

[747] Min. Concord Mo. Mtg., 8-8-1787, 397.

[748] Ibid., 6-5-1782, 213.

[749] Ibid., 8-9-1786, 370; see page 164.

[750] For example, the plan suggested in 1746 and elaborated in the years following.

[751] Advices, 250.

[752] Advices, 250.

[753] Min. Concord Q. Mtg., 8-12-1754, 218.

[754] Ibid., 8-10-1778, 358.

[755] Ibid., 8-9-1784, 413.

[756] Ibid., 8-12-1793, 477; Min. Warrington and Fairfax Q. Mtg., 9-20-1784, 175ff.

[757] Phila. Q. Mtg. in the earliest years transacted considerable detail business, which, years later, it did not touch.

[758] Several definite references are: Min. Middletown Mo. Mtg., 6-6-1778, 409 and 12-4-1783, 562; Min. Horsham Mo. Mtg., II, 12-28-1796.

[759] Min. London Grove Mo. Mtg., 11-4-1795, 78; Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 2-3-1791, 133.

[760] To turn to the text of a plan of subscription, see “school support” in index.

[761] See page 168.