[215] Votes and Proceedings, II, 110; The Friend, XXVIII, 293, and following; A. C. Thomas, “The Attitude of the Society of Friends toward Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Particularly in Relation to Its Own Members,” in Amer. Soc. Church History, VIII, 273, 274.
[216] “Ralph Sandiford Cr for Cash receiv’d of Benja Lay for 50 of his Books which he intends to give away ... 10” (sh.) MS. Benjamin Franklin’s Account Book, Feb. 28, 1732–1733.
[217] Sandiford, Mystery of Iniquity, 43; Vaux, Memoirs of the Lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford; The Friend, L, 170; Thomas, Attitude, 274; Franklin, Works (ed. Sparks), X, 403.
[218] Cf. American Weekly Mercury, Nov. 2, 1738, for notice in which the Friends’ Meeting denounces his All Slave-Keepers ... Apostates (1737). Cf. anecdotes related by Vaux; Bettle, Notices, 375, 376; The Friend, L, 170; Thomas, Attitude, 274.
[219] Bettle, Notices, 378–382; Thomas, Attitude, 245, 275–279; Tyler, Literary History of the American Revolution, II, 339–347; The Friend, LIII, 190; Woolman, Journal.
[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.