Transcribed by the webmeister from the original handwritten manuscript at Spruance Library, Bucks County Historical Society.
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Beloved friend
Samuel Hart
It appears right for me to propose What with Divine permition and friends approbation I will
attend Plumstead meeting on first day morning next the fourth of next month and be at
Doylestown in the afternoon opr evening as friends may think best I may attend the monthly
meeting on the fifth but I am in a difficulty about Buckingham having been treated unkindly by
some of the friends of N.S. & even wounded by some that profess to be my friends who have
soundly asserted that I said in opposition to N.S. concern when before Wrightstown Quarterly
Meeting what I never did say and tryed to bring me before a kind of Ecclesiastic Tribunal while
some of N.S. friends complained to the overseers of Makefield M.M. under a discouraging
consideration of these things I known not how I can attend that M.M.
Please let me know if thee can comment recently on what arguments are made or whether any ---
In haste & in much love to thee they dear wife and children farewell
Edw. Hicks
I should be willing that parents and heads of familys without distinction should have peculiar notis.