SW_JC1796_028

&; first of the Week, having last evening inform'd some of People that our friend propos'd having a Meeting with them desiring them to give notice thereof, at the usual time of 10 OClock we went to th after some time our friend spoke in his usual plain manner with life, in the after noon went to their afternoon meeting, after a little time of silence some there appeared in some that they thought there a disposition to be doing something that they might be employ'd externally as though the Almighty could not know how the heart was engag'd except the Tongue express'd it our friend again express'd as at the former willing his desire for them that they might feel after that that worship which was inward and spiritual, and not so much after a formal &; Outward One, when the meeting ended After taking our leave of them in a friendly manner some of them acknowledging that it was a mark of much love to come to see them from who were so far. We all AndRode to our quarters at Stockbridge altho late in afternoon, and Wet withal, likewise my own situation being such that I should have been willing to have staid all Night just before the close of the afternoon meeting felt Chilly had Evening as that on Sixth day evening last, which was for the first, which was, taken it was afore there appear'd a necessity for our returning this evening. John Pierse one of our Company &; C Hendrick having information from my Companions on sixth day to Whitestown at their return to our Friends, that our friend Joshua had gone to Brothertown to have a meeting with them this day, They came to the meeting, and J.P. inform'd Us They had