Excerpt from American Annual Monitor for 1858: Or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in America, for the Year 1857
Ir may not be unknown to most of the readers of this volume, that a book under the same name has, for a number of years past, been annually published in Eng land, designed as a record of all the deaths of members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland embracing also such obituary notices as would be In structive and interesting to survivors.
Believing that a similar record would be equally valuable in this country, a Committee of the New York Tract Association of Friends has undertaken its publication.
The thanks of the Committee are due to their cor respondents in the Monthly Meetings for their kind co operation. They trust these Will not be discouraged from continuing their aid, by finding the obituary notices Which they ‘may have forwarded, in some instances curtailed.
The necessity of keeping the book Within a moderate size, has compelled them frequently to condense the ao counts, and to omit much, Which, however interesting, does not come Within the scope of this work.
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