John Scarborough, Quaker preacher

Recorded as written:

John Scarborough, b. 31/8m [Oct.] 1704, he the twin of Hannah; d. 5/5m/1769; his marriage to Jane MARGERUM was reported to Falls MM on 2/4m [June] 1731; Jane then was granted a certificate of removal from Falls to Buckingham MM on 3/9m/1731.[41] no children; John was recorded as a minister ca. 1740. As a Friends’ minister he was very involved with antislavery, and travelled in the ministry in New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina. See John Woolman's Journal and David Ferris's Memoirs. William Reckitt, a Friend from Britain travelling in the ministry in America, 1757-1759, wrote:

I then crossed Delaware at the Falls, in order to see my friends once more in Bucks County, where there is a large body, and got to my worthy friend John Scarborough’s on fourth day [Wednesday] with whom I travelled several weeks both in the Jerseys and Maryland. I had great satisfaction in his company, he being a man of a good understanding, a tender spirit, and very serviceable in his church

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The Journal of John Wolman

•~ Chapter 6 (1758, 1759) first pages (in part)
"After this meeting I joined with my friends, Daniel Stanton and John Scarborough, in visiting Friends who had slaves. At night we had a family meeting at William Trimble's, many young being there; and it was a precious, reviving opportunity. Next morning we had a comfortable sitting with a sick neighbor, and thence to a burial of the corpse of a Friend at Uwchland Meeting at which there were many people, and it was a time of Divine favor, after which we visited some who had slaves." (snip) "Near the conclusion of the meeting for business, Friends were incited to constancy in supporting the testimony of truth, and reminded of the necessity from which the disciples of Christ are under to attend principally to his business as he is pleased to open to us, and to be particularly careful to have our minds redeemed from the love of wealth, and our outward affairs in as little room as may be, that no temporal concerns may entangle our affections and hinder us from diligently following the dictates of truth in laboring to promote the true spirit and heavenly-mindedness amongst the children of men in these days of calamity and distress, wherein God is visiting our land with his just judgements."

(later, in February 1760, John Woolman again visits Buckingham Meeting which was John Scarboroughs 'home' meeting near his farm) {see page 102 of the same Chapter 6})

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