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Joel Swayne Diary

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fraud or deception in us at all, but were perfectly satisfied with our being am-ongst them On the first day following we had a very satisfactory meeting in our house at Genesinguhta which was a tendering time to me and I believe our little assembly was livingly owned by the true sheperd of Israel the silent The next day Joshua Sharpless fell through a trap door in a cellar which stunned him, so that he lay for a considerable time before he came again to his senses, after he had a little recovered we found that he was not very badly wounded, tho we were doubtful of his being able to tra-vel next day which was the time appo- inted for their departure, but they got themselves in readyness (Joshua being anxious for going) and took an affectionate farewell opportunity with us and set off about noon intending to go about 100 miles to the north into upper Canada in order to pay a visit to some of the scattering friends in that quarter, they being on a committee appointed by the Yearly meeting for that purpose