OBSERVING in the Pensilvania <sic> packet of this day, a Notification “that a number of persons composed of the members” of all the Societies in this city met, and unanimously agreed, that it “would be proper to express their sympathy, for their brethren” at Boston, by suspending all business on the first day of next “month.”—The people called Quakers, tho tenderly sympathising <sic> with the distressed, and justly sensible of the value of our religious and civil rights and that it is our duty to assert them in a Christian spirit; yet, in order to obviate any misapprehensions, which may be concerning us, think it necessary to declare, that no person or persons were authorized to represent us on this occasion, and if any of our community have countenanced or encouraged this proposal they have manifested great inattention to our religious principles and profession, and acted contrary to the rules of christian discipline established for the preservation of order and good government among us.
Signed on behalf, and at the desire of the Elders and Overseers of the several meetings of our religious society in Philadelphia and other Friends met on the occasion, the 30th of the 5th month, 1774.
JOHN REYNELL.
JAMES PEMBERTON.
SAMUEL NOBLE.
~ Virginia Gazette, 09-Jun-1774, Page 4, Columns 2 & 3
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