Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . ersoever he should be pleased to leadthem. The first Quakers in Aberdeen were Pro-vost Alexander Jaffray, Alexander Gellie,Margaret, wife of Gilbert Molleson, amagistrate of the city, whose spiritualendowments gave her eminence and weightamong the strictest classes; Elizabeth,wife of Andrew Goodall, merchant; Mar-garet, wife of John Scott, another magi-strate of the city, and others. A year later, 342 THE CHURCHES UE ABERDEEN in 1663, were joined by PatrickLivingstone, who was the founder of theQuaker meeting at Kinmuck, which cameto b
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . ersoever he should be pleased to leadthem. The first Quakers in Aberdeen were Pro-vost Alexander Jaffray, Alexander Gellie,Margaret, wife of Gilbert Molleson, amagistrate of the city, whose spiritualendowments gave her eminence and weightamong the strictest classes; Elizabeth,wife of Andrew Goodall, merchant; Mar-garet, wife of John Scott, another magi-strate of the city, and others. A year later, 342 THE CHURCHES UE ABERDEEN in 1663, were joined by PatrickLivingstone, who was the founder of theQuaker meeting at Kinmuck, which cameto be the largest in Scotland ; and GeorgeKeith, who was destined to take a pro-minent part in the movement in most outstanding of all the earlyQuakers in Aberdeen was, however, Alex-ander Jaffray, and with his personal his-tory the record of the movement duringits first years in the city is inseparablyconnected. Happily, he has preserved arecord of these years in that intensely in-teresting and valuable local work knownas Jaffrays George Fox. Alexander Jaffray was in his own day apersonage of considerable importance. AsProvost of the city he held a high positionof local influence, but this was by no meansthe extent of his fame. He was a memberof the Scottish Parliament, and was oneof those sent to Holland to interview theexiled King, afterwards Charles II., and toinduce him to subscribe to the SolemnLeague and Covenant. Along with fourothers from Scotland he became a memberof the Parliament of England, and Crom-well offered to make him a judge for Scot-land. A long period of earnest thoughton religious matters led him to accept thedoctrines of the Quakers, and when a com-pany of them gathered in Aberdeen, hebecame at once a leading member. Shortly afterwards he removed to Inverurie, wherelie was instrumental in forming the firstmeeting in the north outside Aberdeen. Hesoon returned to the city, and played aprominent part in the stirring years ofstress and tria
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