*Transcribed by Eleanor Orthun
(Page #'s in parenthesis on original minutes pages.)“(395) 10th M8d: 26th 1776 (sic) 16 & 16 of last Daniel Job & his Fathers cases are continued with the same friends as thr’o a Misunderstanding the appointment is not complied with, ... East Nottingham Preparative Meeting Proposes ...Elisha Brown for an Overseer in the place of Abraham Bunting (who desired to be released) with which this Meeting Concurs, ... The Same Prepoarative (sic) Meeting brings a complaint against Morris & Thomas Job, sons of Archibald, the first for attending the place or places of Mustering or Training in the Military way [and] hireing himself to work at the business of Making or furthering Gun Barrels in Order for Military Uses & on being Treated with by that Meeting ..." -
*Transcribed by Eleanor Orthun
(Page #'s in parenthesis on original minutes pages.)“(399) the 30th of the 11th Mo. 1776 - The Friends appointed about Archibald Job & his Sons report they have had an Opportunity with them in which they discharged ...[illegible: but maybe “thconfelocs tho’ etc”] did not appear acceptable to Archibald from some of the Committee, and that the Sons on the whole rather satisfied themselves and left Friends at liberty to Decide as they thought best, which being Considered Friends think it as well that Archibald [should yet be] visited once more that the Meeting may be fully clear, and Mordecai James and Joshua Brown are Named for that Purpose & to report of his Disposition to next Meeting and his Sons cases are left til then’
*Transcribed by Eleanor Orthun
(Page #'s in parenthesis on original minutes pages.)“(416) 3d Mo. 29th 1777 - Whereas Morris, Thomas, & Daniel Sons of Archibald Job, having a Birthright in our Society, but not Strictly attending to the [illegible] teaching of [illegible] and Truth which [illegible] by Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace, have too much given way to a Temporary Spirit, whereby...they have respectively been drawn in to join with the Commotions of the Times so far as to Muster & encourage Warlike Measures , which being a manifest Deviation from the Peaceable Principles, They have been deliberately treated with in Tenderness & Love in Order to reclaim them & that not proving Effectual, but they & each of them continuing to justify themselves in that conduct, we think it our Duty for Maintaining our Testimony against each Practices, to testify that they by so doing are gone out of Fellowship with us, & that we do not own them the Said Morris, Thomas & Daniel Job as Members of our Society untill by a more close attention to the Spirit of Truth they may come to see their Error & acknowledge the same to satisfaction which we Desire they may.... Givenforth By, Signed in our Behalf of Nottingham Monthly Meeting held the 25th of the 1st Month - 1777. [Benjamin ... Samuel England, Clerke.”
Hopewell Monthly Meeting House,Hopewell Meeting House About a mile west of Clear Brook (six miles north of Winchester, Virginia, on Old Braddock Road, SR 672) sits the Hopewell Meeting House. Built in 1759, this was the religious and community center for Thomas and Margaret Bowen Rees, their family, and their neighbors in the surrounding Frederick County. The Friends recorded important information about their members in the Minutes of their meetings. It is clear that a marriage to a person outside of the Society of Friends was not tolerated. The secretary recorded on April 2, 1770: “The Representatives informed this Meeting that John Rees son of Thomas Rees has gone out in Marriage with a Woman not of our Society. Therefore the Meeting after deliberate Consideration agrees to disown the said John Rees from being any longer a Member of our Society until he comes to a true Sense of his outgoing and make Satisfaction for the Same...”