Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-07-13
Yearly Meeting.

The Friends Yearly Meeting for New Eng
land was held at Newport in the second week
Of June. The meetings, both for worship and
| for business were large and well attended, and
besides the delegates from the several quarter
ly meetings, the following Friends from abroad
were present, as we find from the printed min
utes Of the proceedings:
Richard Mott, from Purchase Monthly Meet
ing of Friends, Stateof New York Lindley NJ
Hoag, from New York Monthly Meeting !;
John Scott, from Baltimore Monthly Meeting
Maryland Thomas Wells, from Miami Month
ly Meeting, Ohio Charles Tabcr, from Farm
ham Monthly Meetings, East Canada Phebe
Field, from Scipio Monthly Meeting, New
York Abigail II. Hoag, from Forrlsburg Mon
thly Meeting Vermont Rachel Kimber from
New York Monthly Meeting Pcrsis Hazard /,
from Ferrlsburgh Monthly Meeting; and Seneca
accompanies his wife Nehemiah Merritt and
Sarah :. Merritt, from Scipio Monthly Meet
ing and of Joshua kimber, from York Mon
thly Meeting, who accompanies his wife.
Communications were received from the
Yearly Meetings Of London, Dublin, New
York, Baltimore, North Carolina, and Indiana.
The following Friends were appointed to
prepare Essays or EPstles 10th several Yearly
Meetings
Rowland Greene, John MeadeT, Thomas An
thony, John Osborne, Walter Sawyer, John ID.
Lang, William T. Taber, Samuel Boy John
Warren, Samuel Taylor, Jr. Stephen A.
Chase, Daniel Taber, Nathan Breed, of Lynn,
Lemuc Jones Of Brunswick Edmund Gates,
Thomas s. Clifford, William II. Chacc, Joseph
Metcalf, Caleb Jones, Moses Farnum, Joseph
II. Cole, Jacob II. Vining, Alden Sampson,
Newell Hoxie, Moses II. Beede, Samuel Boyd
Tobey, John HowlanG, NathanDouPlass,
Isaac X. Clifford, Perez Peck, Tobias Meader,
David Dudley, David Rodman, Jacob X.
Purington, and Stephen Jones, Jr.
Samuel Boyd Tobey was appointed Clerk,
and John Osborne Assistant Clerk, for the
ensuing year.
The Committee for the Superntendence OF
the Yearly Meeting Boarding School reported
that the institution was in a fourshing condi-
ton. The teacher have been careful and
attentive to their duties, and the scholars have
been orderly in their department and have
made satisfactory progress in their studies.
The average number of scholars have been one
hundred and one, of whom fftyfve were males
and forty-six females The expenditures OF
the school have been $l2,8 43, the income
from the fund So, ,246 II, from board and tut
ton Of scholars $5, 1873 II, total $il ,5S5 "a.
In the expenditures are included repairs and i'm
prOvements To the amount of over $1,000.
The terms Of tuition in this excellent instiu-
tion are continued as last year, VIZ $50 per
term for members of the yearly meeting, SO
for those not members, one OF both of whose
parents are members, and $50 for others.
Each Monthly Meeting has also the privilege
Of sending one scholar free of expense for one
term. During tho year the committee have
addressed circular to Friends in the several
yearly meetings, urging upon them additional
attention to the planness ofbehayior: dress and
language in their children.
William {. Taber, executor Of the will OF
the late Abraham Sherman, laid before the
meeting extracts from the will OF the deceased
in which he made several bequests to the New
Bedford Monthly Meeting, to the Yearly Meet
ing, and to the Friends Yearly Meeting
Boarding School at Providence: A portion OF
these bequests are to be applied to the ordinary
expenses Of the meetings, and another portion
To the purposes of education. DIR Sherman hat
been clerk Of the meeting for twenty years
--Propidence Journal