BRIEFER NOTICES Compiled by Barbara L. Curtis The annual meeting of uie Friends Historical Association was held on Monday evening, November 12, 1984, at the Friends Meetinghouse, at 4Ui and Arch Sts., Philadelphia. About 90 members and guests enjoyed a buffet supper, which was followed by the annual business meeting of die association at which time, among odier things, John M. Moore, its president, made a presentation of Quaker historical publications issued in 1984. The speaker ofthe evening, Eliza Cope Harrison, gave an interesting character sketch of her ancestor, Thomas Pym Cope, in his dual role as wealuiy Philadelphia merchant and sturdy but worldly Quaker executive . Much of her material related to the work which she edited from some of Cope's personal diaries, published under die tide Philadelphia Merchant, the Diaries of Thomas P. Cope, 1800-1851. * * * Jay Worrall Jr., Box 6, Keswick, VA 22947, has reported on a celebration concerning Quakers in Perquimans County, Norm Carolina. D. Elton Trueblood, of Richmond, Indiana, was die principal speaker at die Perquimans Pilgrimage and Quaker Homecoming held October 12, 13, and 14, 1984. This diree day occasion celebrated joindy die arrival of America's first immigrants, who came to North Carolina in 1584, and uie visits of George Fox and William Edmundson to Perquimans County in 1672. The preaching of those two Friends resulted in the organization of Friends meetings in Pasquotank and Perquimans counties, and die beginnings of organized Christianity in North Carolina. On Saturday, October 13, visitors from many states toured die county, stopping at many places of historical interest including die sites of eight Quaker meetinghouses. Many of Perquimans County's churches held services on Sunday, October 14, so tiiat their congregations could hear Elton Trueblood's address for which about 500 persons were present on the grounds of the Newbold-White house, supposed to have been built in 1685 by Quaker Joseph Scott. Sponsors of die Homecoming were die presentday Perquimans Friends Meetings of Up River and Piney Woods. * * * Malone College, at Canton, Ohio, will be host to the Sixth Biennial Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists June 20-22, 1986, the Conference Steering Committee announces. After holding its sessions since 1980 on die East Coast, at Haverford College, Guilford College, and die Moses Brown School of Providence, Rhode Island, die Conference is returning to die Middle West where it started at Richmond, Indiana, in 1976. Those interested in presenting or commenting on papers about either Quaker history or Quaker sources should write to Damon D. Hickey, Guilford College Library, 5207 Ainsworth Drive, Grennsboro, North Carolina 27410, U.S.A. The Conference hopes to meet in 1988 at Pickering College, Newmarket, Ontario , where Canadian Yearly Meeting assembles every odd year, and where it keeps its archives. * * * The Bicentennial Committee for the Restoration of South River Meetinghouse, Inc. is presently conducting research on the original architectural design of die South River Meetinghouse at Lynchburg, Va., which was completed in 1798. Anyone who has information concerning the Meetinghouse or the Quakers who worshipped there should contact Carolyn Eubank, 1162 Timberlake Drive, Lynchburg, Va. 24502. 62 ...