Excerpt from The Purchase Meeting: Read at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Quaker Hill Conference, September the Seventeenth, Nineteen Hundred and Four From 1731, when the first Friends came to Quaker Hill, until the year 1800 when the meeting here, known as The Oblong, became a part of the Nine Partners Quar terly Meeting its members belonged to and were a portion of the Purchase Quarterly Meeting and hence the history of the latter meeting for the period named has a close connection with the religious history of Quaker Hill. Indeed, the history of The Oblong is a part of the history of The Purchase Meeting. Rev. Warren H. Wil son in his valuable historical papers entitled Quaker Hill in the Eighteenth Century, and Quaker Hill in the Nineteenth Cen tury, has given a very complete history of the meeting of Friends here during those centuries; and 1 am now asked to furnish that portion of the history which is includ ed ih that of The Purchase Meeting. 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.