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 in the towns over which the authority of the Commiioners extended.

The other exception to which we have referred is to be found in the following declaration againt lavery by the Quakers of Germantown, Pennylvania, in 1688. Thee were a "little handful" of German Friends from Cresheim, a town not far from Worms, in the Palatinate.

We are indebted to the curious and zealous reearch of Mr. Nathan Kite, of Philadelphia, for the publication of this intereting memorial. It appeared in The Friend, Vol., No. 16, January 13, 1844. The paper from which Mr. Kite copied was the original. At the foot of the addres, John Hart, the clerk of the Monthly Meeting, made his minute, and that paper having been then forwarded to the Quarterly Meeting, received a few lines from Anthony Morris, the clerk of that body, to introduce it to the Yearly Meeting, to which it was then directed.

"This is to the monthly meeting held at Richard Worrell's:

"Thee are the reaons why we are againt the traffic of men-body, as followeth: Is there any that would be done or handled at this manner? viz., to be old or made a lave for all the time of his life? How fearful and faint-hearted are many at ea, when they ee a trange veel, being afraid it hould be a Turk,