where I met with with countrywoman A. A. and
her companion M. R; and also T. S. formerly of
Kendal, who is now married and well settled in
this city.

2d Month, 21st.

I still continued in Philadel-
phia

; and this afternoon was pleasantly spent at
S. S.'s. The next day I attended the Middle
Monthly Meeting, where I was gratified with the
sight of a young man presenting an acknowledge-
ment to friends, on account of having taken up
arms; for which he had been disowned. During
the time of his separation, he had married an
amiable young woman, who was convinced of the
truth of friends' principles, and joined the society.
The impression made upon the meeting, on his
presenting an acknowledgement, was such, that
he was reinstated in the society before the meeting
separated.

Being invited by J. E. I supped and spent the
evening at his house. A person as also in
company with us, who had made himself re-
markable, in being a principal leader and minis-
ter among those seceders, who give themselves
the name of Free Quakers

; and who, during the war
with England, gave friends a great deal of trouble.
The ground of their offence against friends, was,
chiefly, the operation of the rules of discipline, in a