Chapter VIII.
Haverford--leaves Merion--Borden Town--Amboy--
New-York--Hudson--Nine Partners--Quarterly
Meeting--Hudson--Albany--Troy.

12th of 10th Month, 1805.

I returned from
Radnor

to Merion , and this day attended Haverford
meeting, at which were several strangers. This is
one of the oldest meeting-houses in America; and
at the early settlement of this meeting, friends of
Philadelphia went every third first day to attend
it; most of them coming on foot a distance of
about ten miles. At that time nearly the whole
of the road was through a shady forest. Amongst
the rest, Wm. Penn used to come on horseback,
and would occasionally take up a little bare-footed
girl behind him, to relieve her when tired. By
the early minutes of the monthly meeting, it ap-
pears that several friends were appointed to mark
out a road through the woods from Philadelphia,
to Haverford and Radnor meetings.

10th Month 13th.

I attended Merion meeting

,
at which was Sarah Harrison, who visited us at
our lodgings after meeting; and we spent the after-
noon with her at the widow George's.

10th Month, 14th, was spent at Merion

, prin-
cipally in writing to different correspondents in
America.