Feels less the outer world’s control;
The strength of mutual purpose pleads
More earnestly our common needs,
And in the silence multiplied
By these still forms on either side,
The world that time and space have known
Falls off and leaves us God alone. Whittier.
Sources other than acknowledged in the text: Henry B. Taylor, Howell S. Brown, Mabel N. Lybolt, L. H. Taylor, for minutes, notes, articles, manuscripts, and consultation; Landmarks of Old Prince William; Briscoe Goodhart, The Loudoun Rangers; James Head, The History of Loudoun County; Loudoun Historical Society Bulletin, 1958; Samuel M. Janney, Memoirs and History of Friends; Hopewell Friends, History of Hopewell Friends Meeting; Hinshaw, Quaker Genealogy; Frederick Gutheim, The Potomac, from “Rivers of America” series.
The Uses of History
A Lecture Delivered Before Members of the Society, January 15, 1965
By Col. Trevor N. Dupuy