In the year 1760, she found an engagement to visit the churches in America, which proved a very close trial, in parting from her husband and children; but after recommending them to the protection of that hand which is for ever sufficient, she proceeded on her voyage, and landed in America in the Tenth month, 1761, and diligently set about her services, visiting the provinces generally, although weak in body, in company of a Friend, of Pennsylvania, named Ann Newland. Her labours of love through the different provinces were to the general satisfaction of Friends, as appears by divers certificates transmitted from thence.

She was also enabled to visit many meetings in the provinces of Pennsylvania and the Jerseys, although under great bodily weakness and exercise of spirit; yet her meek, lowly, and innocent deportment, together with her lively and edifying ministry, made lasting impressions on many minds, and rendered her company very acceptable.

In the course of her visit, she was an example of great patience and humility, steady in attention to her own business, and prudent in conversation, discharging her duty faithfully in her weighty undertaking.

A little before she was confined by illness, she expressed to some Friends, after the last public meeting she was able to attend, which was at Chester, in New Jersey, that she was clear; and although the yearly meeting at Philadelphia was then to be held in a few days, she said she could not see that she should be at it.

She got to her lodging at Isaac Zane's, in Philadelphia, the 22d of the Ninth month, 1762, and her distemper increasing, notwithstanding all the tender care affection could dictate, she expired the 6th of the Tenth month following. She endured her last illness, which was very sharp, without any signs of murmuring, but in lamb-like patience expressed an entire resignation in the divine will, whether to live or die.

Her body was carried to one of the meeting-houses in

Philadelphia, and after a large and solemn meeting was decently interred in Friends' burial-ground in the city, the 8th of the Tenth month, 1762.

BOSWELL MIDDLETON, of Boroughbridge, in the county of York, having through a long course of years maintained a steady testimony in opposition to all undue liberties, and laboured for the promotion of truth, which he was enabled to do through divine experience and obedience to the heavenly light; and though, through extreme old age, his memory became impaired for the last two or three years of his life, yet a short account of him, for the encouragement of such as may hereafter read this, claims a place in these memoirs.

He was a diligent attender of meetings, and peculiarly qualified for the support of discipline, awfully waiting for the arising of that divine power which is unerring, to direct his judgment.

He twice suffered imprisonment by a priest for the nonpayment of his demands, about eleven years, which he bore with much Christian patience and resignation, being exemplary in suffering, and was so attended by divine assistance, that he fervently desired his adversary might be forgiven.

About the seventieth year of his age, his mouth was opened in public testimony, which was sound, refreshing and edifying, greatly to the satisfaction of the right-minded; and as he bought the truth, he was careful not to sell it: so it may be justly said, truth and its friends were his beloved companions, and his conduct among men gained him love and esteem.

To some friends who visited him a little before his decease, he appeared to be in a still, quiet, sweet, composed frame of mind, and took his last leave of them in his usual tender and affectionate manner.

Much might be said of this worthy Friend; but as his life was a series of close exercises and trials, it may suffice to say, he endured them as a man whose mind was weaned from the world, having his eye fixed on a far better country, namely, an heavenly, into which there is no doubt of his being entered.

He departed this life the 8th of the Fifth month, 1763, in the ninety-sixth year of his age, and a minister about twenty-seven years; and was buried at Burton, near Barnsley, the 10th of the same.

JOHN GOODWIN, an ancient Friend at Eskyrgoch, in Montgomeryshire, in North Wales, was early favoured with the blessed visitation of [the Spirit of] truth, and by faithfully adhering to the dictates thereof, he experienced its effects to be redeeming him, and purifying him as a vessel for the great Master's use. At about the twenty-seventh year of his age, he was called to the work of the ministry, in which, through faithfully and diligently waiting for allsufficient help, he became an able minister of the gospel, and was instrumental to turn many from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to the power of God. He might well be numbered among the valiants of Israel; often visiting the principality of Wales, and, in the younger part of his life, divers parts of England. He filled up the several duties of life with good repute, being an affectionate husband, a tender father, a good neighbour; also, in a religious sense, a wise, nursing father, pleasant in conversation, yet weighty and instructive to those who inquired the way to Zion; when led to reprove, he was careful to abide in the spirit of meekness and wisdom. He was of an upright life and conversation, a fervent lover of the cause of truth and people of God, zealous of the honour of truth and the support of its testimony in all its branches.

In his younger years, when in low circumstances, and anxious for the support of his family, he purposed removing to America, (his parents, brother and sisters being gone thither before,) but finding a stop in his mind, and feeling after divine counsel, he found it his place to settle in his native land, and it livingly arose in his heart that the Lord would provide for him and his family, in which he believed. And in the close of his days, he said with thankfulness, the Lord had fulfilled it to him; which is worthy of commemoration, and may serve as a way-mark to others who read this account, to have their eye to Him in faith, with whom counsel dwells for direction, in all their concerns of life.

He continued fresh and lively to old age, and about three weeks before his decease, at the last public meeting he attended, he was enabled to bear testimony in the life and power of truth in a remarkable manner to those present, amongst whom were divers not in society with us. After meeting, he said he was fully clear of the people, and released from that service; signifying his time here was near a conclusion, and that now, after a painful affliction, he should soon be at rest with the righteous, for which he longed; yet said, 'Let patience have its perfect work.'

During his illness he appeared to be in a heavenly frame of mind, abounding with praises to God for his continued mercies, often expressing how valuable the enjoyment of the love of God is on a dying-bed. He desired his love might be remembered to his brethren and sisters in Christ, being sensible and clear in his understanding to the last hour.

He quietly departed this life, as one falling into a sweet sleep, the 7th of the Twelfth month, 1763, and was buried in Friends' burial-ground at Llwyndee, the 12th of the same; aged about eighty-two years.

CATHARINE BURLING, daughter of John and Ann Burling, of the city of New York, in America, was taken ill of a slow fever, which weakened her gradually, so that, to use her own expressions, she was reduced step by step; all means used for her help proving ineffectual.

When she was brought low, and her recovery appeared doubtful, she was for a time under great exercise of mind concerning her future state, and prayed to the Lord for a little more time, and that she might witness a better state; which he was graciously pleased to answer, not long after, she saying her mind was changed. She came to witness the child's state, filled with innocency, abounding in love; often saying, 'My mind is like a little child's.' Her heart came to be filled with the love of God, and in the aboundings thereof, for several weeks before her departure, she was at times enabled to declare of the Lord's goodness to her in a wonderful manner; and also, to exhort many who came to visit her, to amendment of life, that when they came to lie on a sick bed they might be made enjoyers of that peace she was then made a partaker of; often saying she felt his peace flow in her mind as a gentle stream, and that her cup ran

over.

Though order of time may not be kept strictly to, yet many were the sweet expressions which this young woman uttered, some of which, as nearly as could be remembered, are. as follows, viz. :

'Many wearisome nights have I gone through, and have watered my pillow with my tears. I was long in doubt of my eternal happiness, and in the time of greatest distress, I cried to the Lord that he would be pleased to lengthen my time a little longer, that I might be more fully prepared. And he was graciously pleased to hear and grant my request ; and now he has been pleased to grant me a full assurance of it, and to lengthen my time, that I might speak of his goodness to others, and tell what he has done for my soul. O praises, praises, praises, be given to his great and glorious VOL. II.-34