. Quaker Hill; a sociological study. gira appears to have been chagrinand a sense of humiliation at the sentence of death pronounced«;xin the head of the family. In the Prendergast Library atJamestown is a book containing family histories, which the Premicrgast private library. From this book tv/opages had been cleanly cut away. The Librarians set themselvesto replace the lost material, and after patient efforts in manyquarters, discovered another copy, and had typewritten pagesmade and pasted in. lp<3n the missing pages, thus replacedafter the of James Prendergasts fa
. Quaker Hill; a sociological study. gira appears to have been chagrinand a sense of humiliation at the sentence of death pronounced«;xin the head of the family. In the Prendergast Library atJamestown is a book containing family histories, which the Premicrgast private library. From this book tv/opages had been cleanly cut away. The Librarians set themselvesto replace the lost material, and after patient efforts in manyquarters, discovered another copy, and had typewritten pagesmade and pasted in. lp<3n the missing pages, thus replacedafter the of James Prendergasts family, was foundthe account of William Prendergasts sentence to be descendants, had they lived longer, might have been moreproud than ashamed of his rebellion against injustice. The Quakers, because they would passively tolerate anintrusion, \vere forced to harlx^r another rendezvous of tur-bulent men. It is said that Enoch Crosby, the famous spy * Src Appendix B. ^i ?1 .Jl-I. . ./ !• ^ /,<• Majl^... ^ — ^ C HOSTILE FORCES 55 of the Revolution, who is behcved to have been Coopersmodel for the hero of the novel, The Spy, came to QuakerHill during the Revolution, in pursuance of a plan he \ that time following-, and got together a band of Tor\ volun-teers, wh>3 were planning to join the British army; and de-livered them to the Continental authorities, as prisoners. Inthis he was assisted by Col. Aloorehouse, who kept a tavernon a site in South Dover, opjX)site the brick house nowstands one-half mile s«->uth of the Methodist Churcli. I have spoken above of the sullen loyalty of theQuakers to the British during the Revolution. Itmay have been in part owing to their loyalty that their neigh-borhood became more congenial for the Tories who duringthat period harried the country-side. The Quakers wereTories, and are so called in the letters of the period; butthe word Tories remains in the speech of Quaker Hill asa name of op
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