"We, the subscribers, being informed that certain reports have been circulated by Ezra Comfort and Isaiah Bell that Elias Hicks had propagated unsound doctrine, at our general meeting on the day succeeding our quarterly meeting in the 11th month last, and a certificate signed by Robert Moore, Joseph Turner and Joseph G. Rowland being read contradicting said reports, the subject has claimed our weighty and deliberate attention, and it is our united judgment that the doctrines preached by our said Friend on the day alluded to were the Truths of the Gospel, and that his labours of love amongst us at our particular meetings as well as at our said quarterly meeting were united with by all our members for aught that appears. "And we believe that the certificate signed by the three Friends above named is in substance a correct statement of facts. "ELISHA DAWSON, "WILLIAM DOLBY, "WALTER MIFFLIN, "DANIEL BOWERS, "WILLIAM LEVICK, "ELIAS JANELL, "JACOB PENNINGTON, "JONATHAN TWIBOND, "HENRY SWIGGITT, "MICHAEL OFFLEY, "JAMES BROWN, "GEORGE MESSECK, "WILLIAM W. MOORE, "JOHN COGWILL, "SAMUEL PRICE, "ROBERT KEMP, "JOHN TURNER, "HARTFIELD WRIGHT, "DAVID WILSON, "MICHAEL LOWBER, "JACOB LIVENTON, "JOHN COWGILL, JUNR. "LITTLE CREEK, 2 mo. 26th, 1823." "I hereby certify that I was at the Southern Quarterly Meeting in the 11th month last, but owing to indisposition I did not attend the general meeting on the day succeeding, and having been present at several meetings with Elias Hicks, as well as at the Quarterly Meeting aforesaid, I can testify my entire unity with the doctrines I have heard him deliver. "ANTHONY WHITELY."[123] [123] "Cockburn's Review," p. 78.