A history of Quaker government in Pennsylvania . s meeting orders that a collectionbe settled in each particular First Days meeting, and twoappointed to receive them.—Ibid., 2, IX., 1691. The prac-tice of First-day collections for special cases was general inthose days. t This meeting having taken into consideration the con-dition of T. N., he being generally weak and having agreat family of small children, and living very remote fromneighbors, it is agreed that he is to remove for the reasonsaforesaid, and settle down upon the lands of B. C, Jr.,having given his consent.—Ibid., 6, XII., 1692.
A history of Quaker government in Pennsylvania . s meeting orders that a collectionbe settled in each particular First Days meeting, and twoappointed to receive them.—Ibid., 2, IX., 1691. The prac-tice of First-day collections for special cases was general inthose days. t This meeting having taken into consideration the con-dition of T. N., he being generally weak and having agreat family of small children, and living very remote fromneighbors, it is agreed that he is to remove for the reasonsaforesaid, and settle down upon the lands of B. C, Jr.,having given his consent.—Ibid., 6, XII., 1692. J. P., being in necessity of a cow, having lost one,and being in necessity of milk for his children, this meet-ing have lent him £5 for one year to buy one.—ConcordMonthly Meeting, 1699. Information being given this meeting that W. P. is very poor and in necessity, this meeting orders to get a good pair of leather briches * and a good warm coatand waistcoat, one pair of stockings and shoes, and make ss o COAO 1>t-l c H COHW EdH tqW o. The Quakers in Early Pennsylvania. 35 Nor did cases near at hand and of their ownSociety alone demand their attention, but wefind collections taken up for captives among theTurks as early as 1691, when many of the donotshad just reached the country.* The ideas of these Pennsylvania Quakers onthe subject of education were not very those who came over from Englandthere were, besides Penn, several university menof high attainments, like Thomas Lloyd andJames Logan. The great majority were com-mon people very ordinarily educated, and theydid not set any great value on the higher train-ing. They did not, as did the ISTew Englandsettlers, have a college in the first score of years,because they lacked the incentive which moststrongly influenced the Puritans. According tothem the ministry did not depend on educa-tion, and in the minds of many of them, it wasno better, perhaps worse, for its presence. Then a report of the charge to
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