Pursuant to the advice and recommendations of the Yearly Meeting of Friends for many years, and excited by consideration in our own minds for an improvement of the school education of the youth, especially those in low circumstances, we, the subscribers hereto, have agreed to promote the raising of a fund or stock, the increase whereof to be for the benefit of the several schools which are or may be under the care of London Grove Monthly Meeting, and to be distributed amongst them at the direction of a committee of the said meeting, appointed from time to time in the care of schools. The sum annexed to each of our names we hereby engage each for himself or heirs, executors and administrators respectively, to pay or to cause to be paid to such Friend or Friends as the abovesaid monthly meeting shall appoint as treasurer for the same, and that at any time, when demanded, after the whole subscription amounts to the sum of fifty pounds. The treasurer, so appointed, we enjoin to be subject to the inspection and control of the said monthly meeting and to render a fair and true account thereto of his proceedings therein once a year, and if the said meeting shall at any time see cause to release the treasurer, then he shall give up his accounts and pay the money or transfer such other property as may be under his care, appertaining to the said fund unto such other Friends as the monthly meeting may appoint to succeed him in the said trust. Our subscriptions, until they amount to fifty pounds or upwards, we direct to be kept in stock and be deposited in some safe way so as to produce increase either by a loan upon land at the discretion and direction of the said monthly meeting or committee thereof. The interest, rent, or increase whereof we direct to be applied for the benefit of the aforesaid schools in such a manner and at such times as the school committee of the said monthly meeting for the time being, or a majority of them shall direct. And although our present endeavor may appear feeble and small, yet we trust and hope it may gradually increase so as to become more useful in time.[625] [Sidenote: Sadsbury] [Sidenote: Youths’ meetings established 1739] There remains to be presented in this chapter the activities of Sadsbury Meeting, which, though outside the limits of Chester County, was made up very largely of members residing in Chester County.[626] The most distinctly educational work of any sort was the youths’ meeting, which was very frequently mentioned as early as 1739, only two years after they became a monthly meeting.[627] Numerous statements of these meetings occur throughout the first thirty years and more. Attention was also directed to a care for the children of the poor.