Hello All, I mentioned a while back that I had found out while reading the Quaker Records of Swansea that Oliver Chace Sr, Oliver Chace Jr, and Palmer Chace, (and I can now add Miller Chace as well as others) were all denied their membership in the Swansea Society of Friends December 30th of 1824. I posted a message here asking if anyone could shed light on the reason why this may have occurred. Well, I found some other records from the Swansea Monthly Meeting at the Rhode Island Historical Society which had a matrix of many of the members and showed the Olivers, Palmer, and Miller as having been "Seperatists" [sic] and that their membership was denied them. The term "Seperatist" as well as the date indicate that the members who were disowned adhered to the beliefs of the Wilburites while the largest part of the American Quakers became Gurneyites and were part of the bitter split in the New England Yearly Meeting of 1844/1845. Mystery solved. Cheers, Jeffrey -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl