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THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WOOLMAN PUBLISHED BY ANDREW MELROSE -- CONTENTS PAGE - NTRODUCTlON Xlll CHAPTER 1 His Birth and Parentage. Some Account of the Operations of Divine Grace on his Mind in his Youth. His first Appearance in the Ministry. And his Considerations, while young, on the Keeping of Slaves . 55-7 1 CHAPTER II His first Journey, on a Religious Visit, in East Jersey. Illoughts on Merchandising and Learning a Trade. Second Journey into Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Third Journey throuh part of West and East Jersey. Foul.tl1 Journey through New York and Long Island to New England. And his fifth Journey to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Lower Counties on elawar . 72-84. His Marriage. The Death of his Father. His Journeys into the upper part of New Jersey, and afterwards into Pennsylvania. Considerations on Keeping Slaves, and Visits to the Families of Friends at several times and ulaces. An Euistle from the General eetin. His durne to Long Island. Considerations on Trading and on the Use of Spirituous Liquors and Costly Apparel. Letter to a Friend . . 85-106 CHAPTER IV Visit to the Families of Friends at Burlington. Journey to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Considerations on the State of Friends there, and the Exercise he was under in Travelling among those so generally concerned in Keeping Slaves, with some 0 bservations on this Subject. Epistle to Friends at New Garden and Crane Creek. Thoughts on the Neglect of a Religious Care in the Education of the Negroes . 107-I35 CHAPTER V Considerations on the Payment of a Tax laid for Carrying on the War against the Indians. Meetings of the Committee of the Yearly Meeting atPhiladelphia. Some Notes on Thomas ICempis and John Huss. The present Circumstances of Friends in Pennsylvania and New Jersey very Different fiom those of our P- decessors. The Drafting of the Militia in New Jersey to serve in-the Army, with some Observations on the State of the Members of our Society at that time. Visit to Friends in Pennsylvania, accom- panied by Benjamin Jones. Proceedings at the Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Meetings in Philadelphia, respecting those who keep Slaves . . . 136-151 CONTENTS CHAPTER V1 PAGE Visit to the Quarterly Meetings in Chester County. Joins Daniel Stanton and John scarborough in a Visit to such as kept Slaves there. Some Observations on the Conduct which those should maintain who speak in Meetings for Discipline. More Visits to such as kept Slaves, anti to Friends near Salem. Account of the Yearly Meeting in the year 759, andot the increasing Concern in Divers Provinces to 1ibour against Buying and Keeping Slaves. Tlzc Ycnrly Meeting Epistle. ri l houghts on the Siallpos spreading, and on Inoculation . Visit, in Company with Sanuel Eastburn, to Long Island, Rhode Island, 13oston, etc. Remarks on the Slave-Tmdc at Newport also on Lotteries. Some Observations on the Island of Nantucket . 174-I93 CONTENTS i X CHAPTER VIII PAGE Visits Pennsylvania, Shrewsbury, and Squan. Publishes the Second Part of his Considera- tions on Iceeping Negroes. The Grounds of his appearing in some Respects singular in his Dress. Visit to the Families of Friends of Ancocas and Mount Holly Meetings. Visits to the Indians at JVehaloosing on the River Susquehanna 194-230 CHAPTER IX Religious Conversation with a Company met to see the Tricks of a Juggler. Account of JohnSmiths Advice and of the Proceed- ings of a Conlmittee at the Yearly Meeting in I 764. Contemplations on the Nature of True Wisdom. Visit to the Families of Friends at Mount Holly, Mansfield, and Burlington, and to the Meetings on the Sea- Coast from Cape May towards Squan. Some Account of Joseph Nichols and his Followers...

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