History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . ticed, an application was made to the Stan-ford society for a preparative meeting to be held here. It was grantedJuly 19, 1806, in accordance with their report, and the preparative meet-ings were to be held on the 4th day of the week preceding the monthlymeeting to be held at Stanford in September. Monthly and quarterlymeetings were not held here, but at Stanford. Time flies, and we scarcely realize while writing of these neighbor-hood matters that eighty years and more have gone, and with
History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . ticed, an application was made to the Stan-ford society for a preparative meeting to be held here. It was grantedJuly 19, 1806, in accordance with their report, and the preparative meet-ings were to be held on the 4th day of the week preceding the monthlymeeting to be held at Stanford in September. Monthly and quarterlymeetings were not held here, but at Stanford. Time flies, and we scarcely realize while writing of these neighbor-hood matters that eighty years and more have gone, and with them thepersons answering to the names just written, other forms have appearedand there have been changes in church government and changes in thegovernment of the same church or society. So old church records as wellas other records often have a vein of humor above legend or tradition. Theessence of fact gives them flavor I give an incident touching the churchlaw of marriage as it then existed in the society of Friends. I have men-tioned in my list of members of this society Gerard us Winans—Uncle. JONAS KNICKERBACKER.[See Lineage.] 160 HISTORY OF PINE PLAINS. Grand—who then lived on the Edward Huntting farm, and furnishedquite a quantity of timber for the frame of this meeting house. In 1807 orthereabouts he married the widow of Benjamin Knickerbocker and this iswhat they said about it at the Stanford monthly meeting on the 18th of 4thmonth, 1807: North East preparative meeting informs that GerardusWinans has kept company and married contrary to the order of Friendsafter being precautioned. This meeting after weightily considering thesubject appears easy in concluding to disown him, and appoint CharlesColeman and Abraham Gurney to inform him thereof and to prepare anessay and produce to next meeting. This committee reported at theStanford monthly meeting 23d of 5th month, 1807 : Whereas GerardusWinans, a member of our meeting, having so far deviated from the estab-lished r
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