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2d Month, 18th. This morning we passed by Nottingham meeting house, in the neighbourhood of which John Churchman formerly resided. About noon we came to S. C.'s to dinner, where we had the company of Mary Stroud, one of the fifteen children of Joseph Gilpin, mentioned by by Thomas Chalkly in his Journal, page 313, Edit. 1766. This friend was in very low circumstances at the time Chalkly first visited him, and his habitation was a cave by the side of a moun- tain; although many of his descendants, at this time, are people in opulence in America. The cave is now in the possession of one of them, at whose house I was once hospitably entertained, and who considers it as reflecting honour upon the family, rather than as being any disparagement to it. Mary Stroud, although about 100 years old, still retained her faculties in an extraordinary manner, and her observations were often shrewd and pointed. 2d Month, 19th. I attended the quarterly meet-ing at London Grove, the closing sitting of which, was one of the largest I ever was at. W. J. and R. M. two valuable American ministers, were here; the latter of whom appeared in an extraor- dinary manner, and being a young man of an amiable disposition, and pleasing delivery, he will, I trust, continue a useful ornament in the church. Yet how frequently do we see the fairest hopes