Evening star., 1917-09-16

sooner George Fox visited Maryland4{
in 1872. He not only addressed all the.
Friends whom he could reach. but hey
spoke also to crowds of the gentry OK
the province, Indians, negroes. inden- n
tured white servants and all otherrl
kinds of people then residing in Mary =;
land He made many converts amongyi
all classes of the people. His journal OF ~
his work in Maryland was published ~ y
London by Thomas Northcott in 1885. a
1t constitutes one OF the interesting ana n
historically important annals OF earlyS@
Maryland. The first paragraph OF that
journal follows: u
Herr lin Maryland) found John Burneyate y
intending shortly to sail foI oid Enssna: at ons
Joined with in the Lords service. which wey
upon. He had appointed General Meet x
ing for all the Friends in the Province OF Mary
land that he might them together and take -
his Leave OF them before he departed out Of the a
Providence of God TINT landed just time Al
enough to reach that Meeting; by which meana
the Friends Of the Province together. A very n
large meeting this was and held Four Days: {"
which tbesides Friendsl came many OF the
Worlds People. divers Of whom swere Of consider
able Quality in the Worlds Account: For there z
amongst them i've or six Justices Of the 8
Peace. a Speaker Of their Parliament or Assem-
bly,. One Of the Council. and divers others Of v
note: who seemed well satisfied with the Meet
ing After the Publick Meetings were over the ,
Mems and Womens Meeting began wherein I :
opened Friends the Service thereof to fheirs-
great satisfaction. a.
Fox mentions many localities he
visited in Maryland and calls many
of the early Friends by name. but he +
does not appear to have visited any
part Of Montgomery county. the rca- \.
son being that at the time of his COM I,
ing to Maryland that part OF the prov 4
ince now a neighborhood of Washing Z
ton was wilderness in which no
white settlers had penetrated.
The principal family names In the
Sandy Spring meeting of Quakers are
Bancroft BarSfOw.
Bentley. Bond. Bowen, Brigham Brooke.
Farquhar. Gilpin. Green. Halloweli'
Holland. Iddings. Kirk. Lea. Magruder, :
Miller, Moore Besbit, Pierce. Porter.
Scott, Snowden. Stabler. Steer. Thorn.
Thomas. Wilson and Waite. Some OF
these families are very numerous. Inc
latest directory of the members OF the
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Re-,
ligious Society OF Friends. of which
yearly meeting the Sandy Spring meet /
ing is a part. gives the names OF nfty
Stablers attached to the Sandy Spring
meeting. twenty-one Thomases, SIX
teen Brookes, twenty-three Farquharss
fifteen Millers and eighteen Moores.
The directory of the Sandy Spring
meeting contains the names OF -IS
Friends who live at or on farms con-:
tiguous to the settlements of Sandy
Spring. Spencerville Kenilworth. Brink
low. Derwood. Rockville. Olney. WASH
ington Grove. Brighton. Brookevilie.
Ashton Bethesda. Silver Spring. Sparks
and Drayton Some are registered as !:
residing in Washington, these being
Roger Brooke. jr.: George b. Farauhar'.
Edna V T. Peters. Llewellyn NJ. Stabler,
Herbert o. Stabler. Esther NJ Stabler.
Clara Stabler. Milton Stabler. Leonard
Stabler William F. Thomas and Au-
gusta y. Waf1e.
Among the other Quaker meetings or
Quaker congregations in the region =
of Washington are the Hopewell meet
ing in Virginia. the Little Falls meet
ing in MARYLAND. the Goose Creek
meeting in Loudoun county, Va: the ,
Fairfax meeting in Virginia. the Alex
andria meeting and the Nottingham
meeting in Maryland. large number
of the members of the Alexandria and
Fairfax meetings live in Washington.