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Chapter VIII. Haverford--leaves Merion--Borden Town--Amboy-- New-York--Hudson--Nine Partners--Quarterly Meeting--Hudson--Albany--Troy. 12th of 10th Month, 1805. I returned from Radnor to Merion , and this day attended Haverford meeting, at which were several strangers. This is one of the oldest meeting-houses in America; and at the early settlement of this meeting, friends of Philadelphia went every third first day to attend it; most of them coming on foot a distance of about ten miles. At that time nearly the whole of the road was through a shady forest. Amongst the rest, Wm. Penn used to come on horseback, and would occasionally take up a little bare-footed girl behind him, to relieve her when tired. By the early minutes of the monthly meeting, it ap- pears that several friends were appointed to mark out a road through the woods from Philadelphia, to Haverford and Radnor meetings. 10th Month 13th. I attended Merion meeting, at which was Sarah Harrison, who visited us at our lodgings after meeting; and we spent the after- noon with her at the widow George's. 10th Month, 14th, was spent at Merion, prin- cipally in writing to different correspondents in America.