About Manuscripts Profiles Maps Map Gallery Credits

Joshua Sharpless' Journal [Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent], 1797

SW_JS1797_Page_70

Meeting was transacted in a good degree of right order, there are a large num--ber of pretty exemplary concerned friends belonging to this Meeting, I believe there is no monthly Meeting within the compass of our yearly Meet-ing that takes in so large a scope of Country as this, and the members are still spreading wider, we were informed there are upwards of one hundred and Eighty families within its Compass, and I fully be--lieve it will be right, and will conduce to the promotion cause of Truth and righte--ousness for a division of the Month--ly Meeting to take place before long, also for a preparative meeting to be established at Fishing Creek, dined at John Loyd’s and lodged at Charles Chapmans 2 miles 1st day the 26 a clear day and northWest Wind, we had the Opportunity of seeing three Wild Deer, out of the friends Poarch where we lodged, they