Two-hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of Concord Monthly Meeting of Friends : Concordville, Delaware Co., Pa, Part 2

Author: Society of Friends. Concord Monthly Meeting
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : W.H. Jenkins
Number of Pages: 326


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The character of the community; its morality and civility, the stability and sancitity of this society in its past good, its present blessing, and in its future promise are all due to their early efforts in starting and supporting amid inter- rupting conditions these meetings for worship and discipline.


We are filled with feelings of veneration when we consider that alongside this old house with its moss covered walls the mortal remains of a long succession of sons and sires lie buried-upon the circumstance of whose existence our lives were made possible and upon whose fidelity and devotion to duty our opportunities are what they are to-day. Let us pause for a moment and reflect with profound gratitude on how much we owe them; and, further, for the performance of our duty to coming generations, study and practice the motives that prompted them.


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The development of the ideal man and the ideal com- munity was the noble purpose for which they labored. Their fidelity to minor duties, the great and practical gospel of little things that the ultimate and consummate end might be great and good, was a ruling motive in their lives and a prominent feature in their discipline of worship.


They in their own plain and simple way were steadfastly vigilant of their present time that the future might constantly and continually grow better.


They apprehended an important natural law, that in the mystery of growth was the secret of evolution, and in relation to their duty felt that every thought and every act was a new creation and a new addition to their being. To them every day was a judgment day, a day of discipline and a day of reward. They understood that virtne put a high premium on good works and paid immediately. Why should not we follow them and realize that in the demands of our present time lie all the possibilities of eternity to us.


And we are safe in assuming that there are no barriers in God's vast domain that would abrogate that law or nullify its operation. Then let us feel in confidence and content that while the grave may be a goal it is not the stopping place of an immortal soul, and that we are sojourners here in a lower kingdom predestined for one that is higher.


Let us feel in faith and in hope than the omnipotent power that wields the universe, conserves all energy and allows no waste in his supreme economy, for it is reasonable as well as evident that God is too wise, too great and too good to make anything in vain. Annihilation and extinction is not written on the pages in the great volume that rests on the throne of the sanctuary.


Let us ponder for a moment here and consider this point well, for in it there are reasons for hope, the requisites of faith, the evidence of divine assistance. In our moments of perplexity and doubt, as in those of faith and confidence, in our moments of pain and sorrow, as in those of pleasure and delight, let us see a beneficent purpose lying beneath them all.


Mistakes are not mistakes at all when a greater good results from having been made; and pain is not a malady when beneficent consequences ensue from them, having been patiently born. Death has no sting and the grave no victory if they are only the flickering shadows in the twilight of woe


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. that opens the dawn of a heavenly bliss. If in mortal man matter's last gradation is lost and the next step is spirit, why should we not rejoice and be of good cheer bearing the cross of Christ in faith and confidence, abiding in hope of a well born, well nurtured and a well matured trust as we pass through the dark valley of the shadow of death? That momentous symbol whose dreaded approach makes both strong and weak men tremble.


It becomes us in the dignity of our divine inheritance to weigh and measure these points well, testing them in the crucial fires of our own experience, in the seclusions of our closets, in prayer and penitence as in the illuminating sun- light of knowledge and faith.


Experience is the final test of all religion, the cornerstone of permanent faith and the vitalizing substance of atone- ment. Religious experience is communion in action. It is the Creator in conjunction with the creature. It is far the greatest, far the best and far the highest benediction the infinite can bestow on the finite.


In nurturing and developing that faith which is our im- perative duty to possess and an attainment and glorious accomplishment which, I believe, by the grace of God and our persistent and cherished effort, we are made capable. We must, however, remember our finite minds can know but little and our frail tongues utter but little of the wonders of an omnipotent power so great and good that while he holds systems of systems and an infinitude of infinities in their exact time and place, he watches also the little sparrow's fall and the beautiful lily's growth.


Man in his vanity and conceit, his ignorance and folly overrates his individual knowledge and everestimates his power. He is obstinate in ignorance and persistent in folly greatly to his loss.


Our ancestral founders of this venerable place for worship were mindful of these important truths and made many sacrifices in establishing and maintaining this particular manner of worship, which we to-day, after two hundred and twenty-five years, of most eventful time, later we meet to commemorate, holding in great veneration their consecrated labors. And I think we have no cause for discouragement in beholding the fruits of their labors, and anticipations, as the higher ideals loom up in the better man and the more perfect


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community. This itself is a glorification of their lives and efforts, a vindication of their methods and to us an assurance of their rewards. Oh, blessed hope, the most and only con- soling anticipation when all our earthly expectations fall short, when all our mortal aspirations dissolve in the air and all our human hopes decay, is the revealed evidence to other consecrated lives as well as our own through spiritual discernment that there is a kingdom above us, a celestial realm, where our personality in some manner infinite wisdom may elect will be preserved.


It is from our conscious relation to God as his creatures, as his children, and as independent yet responsible fellow workers with him in accomplishing his great ends in evolu- tions for which man and all created things were brought into existence, that all our ideals and heavenly sentiments arise which we designate as religious and which constitute the most exalted part of our nature of whose continual existence and yet higher exaltation we have the deepest assurance of our own consciousness as well as in the promise of revelation.


By deed of Dec. 13, 1697, John Mendenhall conveyed to Nicholas Newlin, Nicholas Pile, George Pearce and Peter Dix, as trustees, a lot of ground upon which a meeting house had been erected, in Concord. In the rough minutes, under date of 2 Mo. 13, 1696, it was "Agreed that the next monthly meeting be held at Concord meeting house, both for men & women, and there to continue till further order." The next meeting was so held, but no others for a considerable time afterward. It is pretty evident that monthly meetings were select and attended only by a few heads of the meeting, and the above indicates that men and women did not always meet at the same place.


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"Know all men by these presents That John Mendenhall of the Township of Concord in the County of Chester yomn for the consideration of five shillings currant money of pensil- vania To him payd by Nicholas Newlin Nicholas Pile both of the sd township yom" George Peirce of the township of Thornbury in the sd County Yom" & Peter Dix of Burming- ham in the County aforesd yom". The Receipt whereof he doth hereby acnowledge. Hath given granted aliened re- leased enfeoffed & confirmed and by these p'sents Doth give grant alien release enfeoff & confirm unto the sd Nicholas Newlin Nicholas Pile George Peirce & Peter Dix All that piece of Land situate & being in the sd Township of Concord. Begining at a corner marked stake thence North North East Twenty six pches by the sd John Mendenhall's ffence to a corner marked stake thence West North West Eight pches & eleven feet to a corner marked stake Then South South West Twenty six pches to a corner marked stake standing by Burmingham Road thence by the sd Road East South East Eight pches & eleven feet to the place of beginning Together with all the messuages buildings & Improvemts to the sd piece of ground belonging and all the Estate Right Title & Property of him the said John Mendenhall of in & to the same, & to the Reversions & Remanders Rents & profits thereof To have and to hold the sd messuage piece of land & all other the prmises hereby granted with the app'tenances unto the sd Nicholas Newlin, Nicholas Pile, George Peirce & Peter Dix & their heirs forever That is to Say the sd mes- suage lately erected upon the sd piece of ground to be & remain for a meeting house for the use & service of the people of God called Quakers. The other building now also erected upon the sd piece of land shall be for a stable for the service of sd people and also all the sd piece of Land hereby granted shall likewise be & remain for the use of the sd people to bury their dead upon such part or pts. thereof and for such uses as they may see cause Paying unto the sd Jon Mendenhall &


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his heirs one pepper corn yearly forever (if lawfully de- manded) Provided allways. It is the true intent & meaning of these presents & of all the parties hereunto that neither the sd Nicholas Newlin Nicholas Pile George Peirce & Peter Dix nor any of them nor any other p'son or p'sons who shall be declared by the members of the monthly meeting of the sd - people (call Concord Meeting) & belonging to the sd meeting house for Friends coming to be out of unity with them shall be capable to execute this trust or stand seized of the p'mises to the sd uses nor have any right or interest in the sd meeting house stable & piece of ground and other ye p'mises nor any part of it thereof while they shall so remain But that.in all such Cases a'd also when any of the above named Trustees or any others succeeding them in ye sd Trust shall happen to depart this life Then it shall & may be lawfull to & for ffriends in their said monthly meeting as often as occasion shall require to make choice of others to manage ye aforesaid Trust instead of such as shall so fall away or be deceased And the sd John Mendenhall for himself his heirs and executors Doth Covenant & grant to & with the sd Nicholas Newlin Nicholas Pyle, George Peirce & George Dix their heirs & successors in the sd Trust by these p'sents that the s'd messuage piece of ground & other the p'mises here by granted with the apytenances shall be & remain unto the sd people of God called Quakers forever for the uses and under the Re- strictions herein before mentioned or intended fully acquited & discharged of & from all claims titles troubles and incum- brances whatsoever had or done or which hereafter may be had suffered or comitted by him the sd Jno. or his heirs or by his or their means privity or procurem't. In witness hereof he hath hereunto Set his hand this the Thirteenth day of December Ano D'm 1697 John Mendenhall (Seal)


Sealed & Delivered in the p'sents of Caleb Pusey, Thomas Bowether.


Acknowledged in open Court and confisied under the clarks hand and county seal this fourteenth day of December Annoo Domi 1697 John Childe Clark of the County of Chester.


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HISTORY OF CONCORD MONTHLY MEETING. GILBERT COPE.


It must be remembered that even before the birth of Wil- liam Penn the Swedes had settled on the shores of the Dela- ware River, but in that day colonization did not flourish with the rapidity of modern times and their numbers were never large. The Dutch came and usurped the control of affairs here, and they in turn had to yield to the English forces as a result of the loss of their principal colony, at Manhattan, or New York.


John Fenwick, an English Friend, became largely inter- ested in New Jersey lands and founded a settlement at Salem in 1675. Before leaving his native country he sold lands to various prospective colonists, a few of whom on arrival de- cided to settle on the west side of the river. One of these was Robert Wade, who located at Upland, now Chester, where William Edmundston, a traveling minister, attended a meet- ing. Robert Proud (1797) states that "At Chester the Quakers had meetings for divine worship regularly from the year 1675; in which year Robert Wade and divers others came over." Other historians have followed this authority, though it is open to question, William Edmundson says that about the year 1675 he was moved of the Lord to visit the West Indies, where he spent about five months and sailed for New Eng- land. Here he spent considerable time, after which, in com- pany with James Fletcher, another traveling Friend, he started for the South by way of Shrewsbury and Middletown, N. J., crossing the Delaware at the Falls (Trenton).


"When we had rode some miles we baited our horses and refreshed ourselves with such provisions as we had, for as yet we were not come to any inhabitants. Here came to us a Finland man well horsed, who could speak English; he soon perceived what we were, and gave us an account of several Friends. His house was as far as we could ride that day ; he took us there and lodged us kindly. Next morning, being the first day of the week, we went to Uplands, where were a few Friends met at Robert Wade's house, and we were glad one


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of another, and comforted in the Lord. After meeting we took boat and went to Salem, about thirty miles, where lived John Fenwick, and several families of Friends from England. We ordered our horses to meet us at Delaware town [New Castle] ; so we got Friends together at Salem and had a meeting, after which we had the hearing of several differences and endeavored to make peace among them."


William Edmundson had mnuch religious service in Mary- land, Virginia and Carolina, after which he returned to his home in Ireland, from which he had been absent about two years. Gough places his visit at Upland under the year 1676.


In 1677 another settlement of Friends was made at Bur- lington, and about the same time some came who chose the west side of the river. It is questionable whether the meet- ing at Robert Wade's had been regularly held prior to these new arrivals. In a list of taxables presented to the Upland Court, November, 1677, the writer cannot identify as Friends any except Robert Wade, John Test, William Woodmanson and perhaps John "hayles" (Bayles or Beals?), in the Up- land district, and Roger Pedrick at Marcus Hook. The last named was one of the Salem colonists.


Dr. Smith says that with the Burlington colonists came William Clayton, Morgan Drewett, William Woodmancy and William Oxley; and again he says, "The only Quaker heads of families that were settled at Chester and Marcus Hook, or in the vicinity of these places, before the arrival of the first ship sent out by Penn, so far as the author can discover, were Robert Wade, Roger Pedrick, Morgan Drewett, William Woodmanson, Michael Izzard, Thomas Revel, Henry Hast- ings, William Oxley, James Browne, Henry Reynolds and Thomas Nossiter." Elsewhere, however, he says that Izzard was not known to be a Quaker, and the same might be said of Revel and Hastings.


William Penn's charter for Pennsylvania was dated March 4th, 1680-81. A session of Burlington Monthly Meeting was held at the house of Robert Wade, at Upland, on the 15th of Ninth month, 1681, and it was doubtless held there on that occasion with reference to allowing the Friends there to hold monthly meeting of their own. It also seems to indicate that the most of the Friends at and near Upland had come with the Burlington colonists.


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The following are some of the first minutes of Chester Monthly Meeting :


"Tenth day of ye 11 month 1681: a monthly meeting of frends belonging to marcus hooke & vpland heeld then at Robert Wads house."


"the 14 day of ye 12 month 1681 : a monthly meeting heeld by frends at marcus hooke."


"the 9th day of ye 3ª mo. 1682: a monthly meeting held then by freends belonging to marcus hooke & vpland at Robert Wads house."


"the 3 day of ye 6th month 1682: a monthly meeting held then by frends belonging to marcus hooke alies Chechester & vpland and ye adioyning Inhabetants at Robert Wads house.


"at this meeting William Clayton Juner and elezebeth bezor both living at Chechester have declared their Intentions of mariage: & its ordered by the meeting that morgan druet & Robert Wade doe make enquirey Conserning them & give it in to ye next monthly meeting."


"At the monthly meeting at Vpland the 11th 7 mo 1682.


"Large paper booke unruled being fitt for the servise of monthly and quarterly meetings is to be procured against the next monthly meeting & Robt Wade is desired to get the said booke.


"It was then agreed yt a meeting shall be held for ye service & worship of god every first day at ye court house at Vpland.


"And also agred that there be three meetings in the week time, the westerne part to meet at Chichester the 5th day of the week and the midle meeting at Harold at Wm. Wood- mansons the 4th day of the week and the Eastern meeting at Ridley at John Simcocks the 5th day of the week untill otherwise ordered.


"The monethly meetings for men and women to be the first and second day of the week in every month at Rob? Wades house.


"Wm Clayton & Elizabeth Bezor did again present their former intentions of marriage but friends findeing that her parents were absent and had not their consent for such pro- ceedings, nor certificate of her clearness from other men, did advise these parties to waite further untill all things be cleared according to the practise of friends and good order of truth."


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Thus far the minutes in full. The question arises whether, if a meeting had been regularly held at Upland since 1675, this specific order for its holding every First-day would have been so expressed. The monthly meeting was held but once at Chichester. Elizabeth Bezer, daughter of Edward and Ann Bezer, had come over in advance of her parents, in com- pany with her uncle John Bezer, one of Penn's commissioners to lay out the city of Philadelphia.


It further appears that Chichester Friends were expected to attend the Upland meeting on the first days of the week. William Penn arrived at New Castle on the ship Welcome on October 27th, 1682, and was at Upland two days later, when he changed the name of the place to Chester. Thomas Chalk- ley transcribed the early minutes of Chester Monthly Meeting about 1708, and where he found the word Upland changed it to Chester before the latter name was given.


"At our men and womins meeting at Chester the 1: of 11 month: 82: it was condesended to that frinds at chichester may hold a meeting there on the first day of the weik for the servis of god untill the next monthly meeting then to have further aprobation concerning it."


At the next meeting, 5th of Twelfth month, the subject is not mentioned, but the following appears :


"Its concluded by ye sd meeting yt Tho : Brassie & James Kennerly speake to John Blunston or some of Derby meeting to joine wth us in our months meeting to consider of & order ye necessary affaires belonging to ye same."


The number of Friends having much increased by arrivals from England it was decided to hold a quarterly meeting and divide the monthly meeting.


"At a quarterly Meeting ye 4th : 12th Mo. 1683/4, Held at Chester : ordered yt Chester Monethly Meating be held one ye first second Day of Eavery Moneth & chechester Monethly Meateing be ye second second Day of Eavery Moneth & Darby monethly Meeting be ye first foreth Day of Eavery moneth : and at This quarterly meateing There was brought in ye colecttion of ye The severall meetings following, viz .-


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Chechester meeting of ye same monys 00:07: 071/2 Darby meeting of ye sd monys 00: 06: 0216


providence metting of ye sd monys 00 :03 : 05 "


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EARLY MINUTES OF CONCORD MONTHLY MEETING.


"The fearst Monthly Meeting held by friends in Chichester on ye 17th of the first Month in ye year 1684.


WILLIAM HEWS JOHN BEZER JOHN HARDING


"At a Monthly Meeting Held at Chichester the 14th of ye 2nd month 1684.


JOHN BEZER JOHN HARDING WM. HEWS


JOHN KINSMAN


"At a monthly meeting at Chichester ye 10th of The 3ª month 1684.


JOHN HARDING WILLIAM HEWS.


"At A Monthly Meeting Held at Chichester ye 9th of ye 4th month 1684. Whereas Thomas Moore came and desired assistance of the meeting to Lend him somthing towards The Bulding of him a house ye meeting considering his poverty hath agred to do it And subscribe as followeth.


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