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with favor by the Chester Quarterly Meeting which had con- 

 sidered the connection of Ilaverford and Radnor Meetings with 

 Philadelpliia as an innovation on its appropriate jurisdiction. 

 Comphiint was at once made, first to Haverford, then to the 

 Phihidelphia Quarterly Meeting, and finally to the Yearly Meet- 

 ing, which decided, " that Newtown Meeting may remain as it 

 is, and may belong to Philadelphia ; but for the future the Welsh 

 Friends are not to set up any more meetings in the county of 

 Chester without the consent of (Chester) Quarterly Meeting," 



The Welsh settlements had extended into Goshen and the 

 Haverford Monthly Meeting had already authorized or were 

 about to authorize a meeting to be held there. The decision of 

 the Yearly Meeting made it necessary for the Goshen Friends to 

 make application to the Chester Quarterly Meeting, which was 

 accordingly done, and permission was obtained in the following 

 year, to have a meeting at Goshen, "every other first day." 



Notwithstanding the jurisdiction over the Goshen Friends 

 could no longer be claimed by the Haverford Monthly Meeting, 

 the members of that meeting for a long time continued to extend 

 a tender care over them, to supply their wants and to unite with 

 them in their meetings. Even the next year the Friends of 

 Haverford Meeting contributed £16 ds. 8c?, to aid Robert Wil- 

 liam of Goshen in building a house, he having received Friends 

 "kindly and open hearted," and keeping the meeting in his 

 house.^ At the same time X12 5s. 2d. was contributed to Cad- 

 walader Ellis and brother, also of Goshen, " whose house had 

 been burned by fire, and his mother and brother having lost most 

 they had." These acts of kindness, taken in connection with a 

 common ancestry and language, produced a more familiar and 

 friendly intercourse between the Goshen Friends and those of 

 Haverford Monthly Meeting, than existed between them and the 

 monthly meeting to which they formally belonged. 



The name of Marcus Hook had been changed to Chichester by 

 Gov, Markham and his Council before the first arrival of the 

 Proprietary. Upon petition of the inhabitants of the venerable 

 town, the Governor by letters patent, confirmed the name of 

 Chichester., and granted to the people of the place the usual 

 privileges enjoyed by Boroughs. As this curious document has 

 never been published it is given in the Appendix, note E, 



Gov. Penn received intelligence from England which compelled 

 him to embrace the earliest opportunity to return. The crown 

 had become jealous of its Proprietary governments in America, 

 and desired to convert them into regal ones. For this purpose, 



1 Goshen Meeting originated from the meetings held at this house. It stood about 

 one mile east of the present meeting-house. Its proprietor, Robt. William, was 

 familiarly known as " the King of Goshen." 



