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brought to a convincement of your Principles, we desire 

 to be members thereof — 



Thomas Andre Naftel. 

 Peter Le Lacheur. 

 Nicholas Naftel. 

 Marguerite Le Lacheur 

 (Wife of John Queripel)." 

 In consequence of this application three Friends, John 

 Eliot, Adey Bellamy and John Sanderson, were sent by the 

 Society to report on the applicants, and the following is a 

 copy of their report, derived from the official records : — 



" Fifth month, 16th day, 1787. 

 Dear Friends, — Agreeable to your request that we should 

 visit these persons who appear to be under convincement in 

 Guernsey, we left London on the 23rd of 4th month, and on 

 the 26th, in the morning, after a rough passage, we arrived 

 through the goodness of Providence to us safe on that Island, 

 where we were kindly received by the brothers Naftel and 

 lodged in their house. We rested that day and went next 

 morning by appointment to the house of Peter Le Lacheur at 

 Havilland, a small distance from the town, where we met all 

 the persons who signed the request to the yearly meeting. We 

 had a solid opportunity together, in which we acquainted them 

 with the proceedings of Friends respecting them, and that we 

 should be glad to visit each of them separately, to which they 

 readily consented. According in the afternoon of the same 

 day an opportunity was had with Thomas Andrew Naftel, 

 who at our request gave us some account of his experiences 

 and trials ; he appears to be convinced of our principles and 

 enabled to come up in a good degree of faithfulness thereto ; 

 after which we had a sitting with Nicholas Naftel, and on 

 solidly conferring with him, found him of an enlightened mind 

 and understanding, and, we believe, consistent conduct. Next 

 day, the 28th, in the morning we visited Peter Le Lacheur at 

 his habitation, with whom we had a satisfactory time of solid 

 waiting and conference. He gave us a circumstantial account 

 of his convincement, which had been accompanied with divers 

 exercises and trials, under which he appears to have stood, in 

 in a good degree, faithfully. It was upon his convincement, 

 after his return from London about three years ago, that the 

 Brothers Naftel and himself first held meetings for worship 

 together. On 2nd day, the 30th, we went to a place called 

 the Forest, about 4 miles distant, to visit Margaret Le Lacheur^ 

 the wife of John Queripel, when after some time of solid 



