Hope this is interesting reading. I obtained this 1826 wooden framed document from an auction house in Fl. This was copied for Rebecca Folwell who was the Grandaughter of Thomas Spicer and Abigail Davenport. I do not descend from Rebecca but do descend from Thomas Spicer and Abigail Davenport. I would like to see this document preserved but is it worth it, if this information was already on file at the Haddonfield Monthly Meeting.? Should this go to the Gl. or Ca. Co. Hist. Soc.? Any suggestions.? Wes Hayman 1826 Calligraphy copy of 1686 document from the Monthly or Quarterly Meetings in Flushing, Long Island "TO OUR DEAR AND WELL BELOVED FRIENDS at their Monthly or Quarterly Meetings in West Jersey or elsewhere Whereas our dear friends Samuel Spicer and Esther his wife have seen cause to remove themselves and family from Gravesend on Long Island (where they have long abode) into your parts to settle and inhabit, These may certify that they the said Samuel and Esther his wife have long been well known unto us and among us, and to our great satisfaction we can say that from their commencement unto this very day we have not known of any misbehaviour concerning them, either to the blemishing the truth they have professed with us, or towards their neighbors; but as far as we know (and do believe) they have been of honest conversation and good patterns and examples, both among us and also their neighbors, and will leave a good savour in the hearts of Friends and people that knew them; and although they remove outwardly from among us, yet we hope our love and unity in the Truth shall abide towards them and remain the same. At our Quarterly Meeting at Flushing on Long Island this 29th of the 3 mo. 1686. Esther Spicer and Esther Saxby, her servant maid, and Richard Thackara, the son of Thomas Thackara, of Newton, he being about 11 years 9 months and 12 days old were slain by lightning on the 24th of the 7th month of 1703, they being in Esther Spicer’s house;- which shock happened about the 10th hour in the evening.- They were buried at Newton in Friends burial ground on the 26th day of the same month. The above Certificate and memoranda were copied from the records of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting by Benjamin Cooper,- Clerk. A.D. 1826 The above named Samuel and Esther Spicer had four children; to wit, Jacob, Martha, Abigail and Thomas. - Jacob remained single,- Martha married Thomas Chalkley,- Abigail, Daniel Stanton, and Thomas, Abigail Davenport; the last named being the paternal Grandparents of Rebecca Folwell Sarah Elwell 1854" On the back of this framed document is a wooden backing with paper pasted on it and writing on it and on the wood itself which is about impossible to read. C. Wes Hayman 2004