[220] Vaux, _Memoirs of Benezet_; _The Friend_, LXXI, 369; Thomas, 274, 275; Bettle, 382-387; Benezet's own writings. [221] Thomas, 273. There must have been a great many other reformers of considerable influence, but of less fame, about whose work little has come down. _Cf._ "Thos. Nicholson on Keeping Negroes" (1767). MS. in Misc. Coll., Box 10, Negroes. [222] _Cf._ MS. Chester Q. M. M., 14 6th mo., 1738; 8 6th mo., 1743. [223] Needles, _Memoir_, 13. [224] Bettle, 377. [225] The MS. Chester Q. M. M., 8 8th mo., 1763, say ... "we are not quite clear of dealing in Negro's, but care is taken mostly to discourage it ...." Three years later they add ... "clear of importing or purchasing Negro's." _Ibid._, 11 8th mo., 1766. _Cf._ also _ibid._, 10 8th mo., 1767; MS. Chester M. M. Miscellaneous Papers, 28 1st mo., 1765; MS. Darby M. M. M., II, 11, 12, 16, 19, (1764), 24, 27, 31, 33, 35, 38, 40, 42, 45, 46, (1764-1765). These references concern the case of Enoch Eliot, who, having purchased two negroes, was repeatedly urged to set them free, and finally did so. MS. Abstract Rec. Abington M. M., 28 7th mo., 1760; 25 8th mo., 1760. "One of the fr^{ds} app^d to visit Jonathan Jones reports they all had an oppertunity With him s^d Jonathan, and that he gave them exspectation of not making any more purchases of that kind, as also he is sorry for the purchace he did make" ... _Ibid._, 24 11th mo., 1760; also _ibid._, 24 11th mo., 1760; 20 9th mo., 1762; 29 10th mo., 1764. [226] MS. Yearly M. M., 23-29 9th mo., 1758, where Friends are earnestly entreated to "sett them at Liberty, making a Christian Provision for them according to their Ages etc".... _Cf._ report about George Ragan: ... "as to his Buying and selling a Negro, he saith he Cannot see the Evil thereof, and therefore cannot make any satisfaction, and as he has been much Laboured with by this m^g to bring him to a sight of his Error, This m^g therefore agreeable to a minute of our Yearly M^g can do no Less than so far Testify ag^st him ... as not to Receive his Collections, neither is he to sit in our m^{gs} for Discipline until he can see his Error" ... MS. Abst. Abington M. M., 288 (1761). _Cf._ Michener, _Retrospect of Early Quakerism_, 346, 347; _A Brief Statement of the rise and Progress of the Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends, against Slavery and the Slave Trade_, 21-24; Sharpless, _A History of Quaker Government in Pennsylvania_, II, 229; Needles, 13. For the fervid feeling at this time _cf._ _Journal of John Churchman_ (1756), in _Friends' Library_, VI, 236. [227] Bettle, 378; Sharpless, II, 229. _Cf._ also _Journal of Daniel Stanton_, in _Friends' Library_, XII, 167.