A history of Quaker government in Pennsylvania . d various op-portunitys to remove many prejudices respecting the con-duct of affairs in Pensilvania. The Meeting for Sufferings and the YearlyMeeting adopted the recommendations of thisreport, and sent letters to Philadelphia practi-cally recapitulating it. To insure its favorablereception, they sent over John Hunt and Chris-topher Wilson to use their personal influence inthe same direction. Prior to their arrival, the six members of theAssembly led by James Pemberton had re-signed. These resignations were probably theresult of conscientious con
A history of Quaker government in Pennsylvania . d various op-portunitys to remove many prejudices respecting the con-duct of affairs in Pensilvania. The Meeting for Sufferings and the YearlyMeeting adopted the recommendations of thisreport, and sent letters to Philadelphia practi-cally recapitulating it. To insure its favorablereception, they sent over John Hunt and Chris-topher Wilson to use their personal influence inthe same direction. Prior to their arrival, the six members of theAssembly led by James Pemberton had re-signed. These resignations were probably theresult of conscientious conviction. Those whichfollowed were influenced by a desire to satisfythe demands of London and Philadelphia Year-ly Meetings. Under date of Eleventh month, 1756, JamesPemberton writes to Samuel Pothergill, who hadreturned to his home in England, a letter nar-rating the turn affairs had taken: The business which detained me from accompanyingthee on shipboard, I mean that of resigning in the As-sembly, was completed pretty readily, though afterward. JAMES PEMBERTO^. FROM WATSOKS ANNALS OF PHILADELPHIA. Probably cdpied from a coniemporary iil;elcli. Last Days of Quaker Control of Assembly. 355 much disapproved o£ by Governor Morris and his friendswhen they found our successors were such as did not an-swer their purposes. . Having mentioned thus far to public afEairs, I mayadd something further with regard to our last Friends were under some anxiety to know the con-tents of the embassy from the Meeting for Sufferings inLondon, that we might be able to conduct in such a man-ner as should be consistent with the reputation of Truth,and the sentiments of our Friends on your side, the latterof which could be learned only from the intelligence re-ceived in private letters which it was not thought pru-dent at that time to make too generally known fromdivers considerations and particularly lest there should beany variation in what the Friends whom we expectedmight bring, and t
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