of that Faith which worketh by Love to the purifying of the heart; producing righteousness and true holiness, e of God, and the good of our fellow crea

to the tures.

In preparing this valuable work for a more extensive Firculation, it has been found necessary to correct many grammatical inaccuracies, and occasionally to omit redundant words, and repetitions of the same sentiments; also to transpose sentences, in which the author's meaning was obscured by the want of a more simple and perspicuous arrangement. But in making these corrections, the greatest care has been taken to preserve the sense of the author entire.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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J.W's. birth and parentage.-Some account of the operations of

Divine grace on his mind in his youth.-His first appearance

in the ministry-and his considerations while young on the

keeping of slaves.

CHAPTER II.

His first journey on a religious visit, into East Jersey.-Thoughts

on merchandizing, and learning a trade.-Second journey into

Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.-Third

journey through part of West and East Jersey.-Fourth jour-

ney through New York and Long Island, to New England.—

Fifth journey, to the Eastern shore of Maryland, and the lower

Counties on Delaware...

CHAPTER III.

His Marriage.-The death of his father.-His journeys into the

upper part of New Jersey, and afterwards into Pennsylvania.-

Considerations on keeping slaves, and visits to the families of

friends at several times and places.-An epistle from the gener-

al meeting. His journey to Long Island.-Considerations on

trading, and on the use of spirituous liquors and costly apparel.

Letter to a friend

CHAPTER IV.

Visit to the families of friends at Burlington.-Journey to Penn-

sylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.-Consider-

ations on the state of friends there; and the exercise he was

under in travelling among those so generally concerned in keep-

ing slaves; with some observations on this subject.-Epistle to

friends at New Garden and Cane Creek.-Thoughts on the

neglect of a religious care in the education of the negros

CHAPTER V.

......

Considerations on the payment of a tax, laid for carrying on the

war against the Indians.-Meetings of the committee of the

yearly meeting at Philadelphia. Some notes on Thomas à

Kempis, and John Huss.-The present circumstances of friends

in Pennsylvania and New Jersey very different from those of

our predecessors.―The draughting of the militia in New Jer-

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sey to serve in the army; with some observations on the state

of the members of our society at that time.-Visit to friends in

Pennsylvania, accompanied by Benjamin Jones.-Proceedings

at the monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings in Philadelphia,

respecting those who keep slaves

CHAPTER VI.

isit to the quarterly meetings in Chester county.-Joins Daniel

Stanton and John Scarborough, in a visit to such as kept slaves

there. Some observations on the conduct which those should

maintain who speak in meetings for discipline.-More visits to

such as kept slaves, and to friends near Salem.-Account of the

yearly meeting in the year 1759.—and of the increasing con-

cern in divers provinces, to labour against buying and keeping

slaves.-The yearly meeting epistle.-Thoughts on the small-

pox spreading, and on inoculation

CHAPTER VII.

isit, in company with Samuel Eastburn, to Long Island, Rhode

Island, Boston, &c.-Remarks on the slave trade at Newport;

also on lotteries. Some observations on the island of Nan-

tucket

CHAPTER VIII.

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isits Pennsylvania, Shrewsbury, and Squan.-Publishes the sec-

ond part of his Considerations on keeping negros.-The grounds

of his appearing in some respects singular in his dress.-Visit

to the families of friends of Ancocas and Mount Holly meetings.

Visits to the Indians at Wehaloosing on the river Susquehannah. 96

CHAPTER IX.

Religious conversation with a company met to see the tricks of a

juggler.-Account of John Smith's advice, and of the proceed-

ings of a committee, at the yearly meeting in 1764.-Contem-

plations on the nature of true wisdom.-Visit to the families of

friends at Mount Holly, Mansfield, and Burlington, and to the

meetings on the sea coast from Cape May towards Squan.-

Some account of Joseph Nichols and his followers.-On the

different state of the first settlers in Pennsylvania who depen-

ded on their own labour, compared with those of the southern

provinces who kept negros.-Visit to the Northern parts of New

Jersey, and the Western parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania,

also to the families of friends at Mount Holly and several parts

of Maryland. Further considerations on keeping slaves;

and his concern for having been a party to the sale of one.-

Thoughts on friends exercising offices in civil government....121

CHAPTER X.

odily indisposition-Exercise of his mind for the good of the

people in the West Indies.-Communicates to friends his con-

cern to visit some of those islands.-Preparations to embark.-

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Considerations on the trade to the West Indies.-Release from

his concern and return home.-Religious engagements.-Sick-

ness and exercise of his mind there

CHAPTER XI.

.136

Embarks at Chester, with Samuel Emlèn, in a ship bound for Lon-

don.-Exercise of mind respecting the hardships of the sailors.

Considerations on the dangers of training youth to a seafaring

life. Thoughts during a storm at sea.-Arrival in London....143

CHAPTER XII.

Attends the yearly meeting in London.-Then proceeds towards

Yorkshire.-Visits quarterly and other meetings in the counties

of Hertford, Warwick, Oxford, Nottingham, York and West-

moreland.-Returns to Yorkshire.-Instructive observations

and letters.Hears of the decease of William Hunt.-Some ac-

count of him.-The author's last illness and death at York....159

APPENDIX.

.....

..177

Account of Elizabeth Woolman

Testimony of Friends in Yorkshire concerning John Woolman....180

Testimony of Friends in Burlington concerning John Woolman....184

Considerations on the keeping of negros-Part the first...

-Part the second.

.240

Considerations on Pure Wisdom, and Human Policy; on Labour,

on Schools, &c.

Considerations on the True Harmony of Mankind, &c. Chapter I. 256

Ditto, Chapter II. On the Example of Christ

264

Ditto, Chapter III. On Merchandizing..

Ditto, Chapter IV. On Divine Admonitions

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268

276

Remarks on Sundry Subjects. Chap. I. On Loving our neighbour 279

Ditto, Chapter IV. On Silent Worship

..294

An Epistle to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of Friends....290

A Word of Remembrance and Caution to the Rich

.31

A Tribute to the Memory of John Woolman, by Bernard Barton..33

ERRATA.

Page 6, sixth line from bottom,-For learn, read learns.

Page 10, first line-For wherever, read whenever.

Page 14, seventh line from top-Dele as.

Page 27, bottom line,-Insert that before I.

Page 52, seventh line from top,-For easily, read closely.

Page 56, do. do. do. For I, read He.

Page 67, fifteenth line from top,-For negro right, read negro's right
Page 104, thirteenth line from top,-For Assyrians, read Syrians."

A

JOURNAL

OF THE

LIFE AND TRAVELS

OF

JOHN WOOLMAN,

IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOSPEL.

CHAP. I.

1720-1742.

His birth and parentage -Some account of the operations of divine grace on his mind in his youth-His first appearance in the ministry—and his considerations, while young, on the keeping of slaves.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God; and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720. Before I was seven years old, I began to be acquainted with the operations of divine love. Through the care of my parents, I was taught to read nearly as soon as I was capable of it; and as I went from school one day, I remember that while my companions were playing by the way, I went forward out of sight, and sitting down I read the 22nd chapter of the Revelations: "He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, &c." In reading it, my

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