Excerpt from Memorials Concerning Several Ministers, and Others, Deceased: Of the Religious Society of Friends, Within the Limits of the Yearly Meeting of New-York, With Some of Their Last Expressions Ssvnun Memorials of deceased Friends have re'ceiv ed the approbation of the Yearly Meeting of new-york, since an edition was published by the Meeting for Sufl'e rings in 1814 and, it is thought, that it will be useful to continue the publication of this record of the lives and deaths of those, who have added their testimony to that of the great multitude which no man can number, for the excellence of the religion of Christ, in its peculiar power, to detach the affections from the world, and pre pare for a separation from the things of time in the solemn hour, when the favour of God will be found to be of incomparably greater value than all which this world can bestow in wealth and in pleasure Published by direction of the Meeting for Sufl'erings representing the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, in the State of N err-york, and parts adjacent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.