About this Transcription

This transcription is based on a photocopy of the typewritten manuscript in the collection of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (1300 Locust St. Philadelphia, PA 19107) bearing the handwritten inscription "L.G.F. to H.N.W -- From - Collection of Helen N. Worst." The date of the manuscript is 1936. [Source of this date is Julian Ellis Mack, Mack Family (Chicago: self-published, 1961)].

The original spellings of quoted material have been preserved. Page numbers refer to pagination in the original manuscript. Annotations are provided to correct minor factual errors and to expand on the text. The manuscript was transcribed, edited, and annotated by Robert W. Test of Columbus, Ohio in June 1998.

^# Note that the dates given here are Julian and Quaker dates. In the Julian calendar the 1st month of the year is March, 2nd month is April and the 12th month is February. It also means that the calendar is ten days off the modern calendar until 1700 when the difference became eleven days. See Robert Test. The Julian Calendar and "Quaker Dating" or How 12mo, 12day, 1656 Actually Means February 22, 1657.