J. Claus (Amsterdam) Theodore Eccleston. Thanks for letter - is pleased to hear that...

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5 Nov/26 Oct 1694

J. Claus (Amsterdam) Theodore Eccleston. Thanks for letter - is pleased to hear that the yearly meeting has asked Eccleston to be their correspondent - used to correspond with Stephen Crisp before he died -The business of Geo Keith in Pennsylvania has caused embarrassment to friends in Amsterdam who have been presented with the following propositions

1, That the Quakers have furnished the Indians with gunpowders & bullets to fight against other Indians.

2, That 3 of them, being in power, have signed a warrant for to fight with outward weapons & to hyre others to it for the retakeing of a challoup that was taken from them before Philadelphia, one of them 3 being a preacher

3. That a preacher of the Gospel of Christ Jesus among the Quakers did sit as judge in case of death & pronounce the sentence of death against a malefactor & to hang him, 4. That something which the Scripture not onely but alsoe all Christendom hitherto has bene a stranger to, is now practised among the Quakers in Pensilvania, viz. That those that are ministers & preachers of the gospel does engross for almost altogether the worldly gouvernment to themselves.

5. That a Quaker printing an appeale to the yearly meeting of the Quakers relating to Church affairs was for his printeing it put in prison etc & his instruments by which his wife might get her livelyhood (in a lawful honest wage) was taken from him, etc.

Repeats request for copy of Geo. Fox's journal. - There are meeting houses at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Harlingen in Friesland & Frederikstat. "'& noe-where else, for at Haarlem Wonda) Embden, Hamberrow & Dantsik it is yet sometimes in one and sometimes in another friends house." - Love to Wm. Crouch & The. Greene.

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