62BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. weather arrive at Providence the same day. The stages set out from Mr. Rice's Providence, for Boston the same time. " The Salem Stage Coach sets off from Salem, early every morning, arrives at Boston in the afternoon. Sets off from Mrs. Loring's at the sign of the Golden Ball, every afternoon of the same day, and returns back. Arriving and setting off of the different Posts. " The southern Male arrives at Boston from November ist to May ist on Wednesday and Saturday at 7 o'clock P. M. and set out the same evenings; from May the ist to November the ist on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 8 o'clock. " The eastern Male arrives and sets out at the same time." FROM ISAIAH THOMAS'S ALMANACK, 1799- " RATES OF POSTAGE OF A SINGLE LETTER. " For 30 miles, 6 cents. For 60 miles, 8 cents. For 100 miles, 10 cents. For 150 miles, \2)/2 cents. For 200 miles, 15 cents. For 250 miles, 17 cents. For 350 miles, 20 cents. For 450 miles, 22 cents. For more than 450 miles, 25 cents. Every double letter is to pay double the said rates, every triple letter, triple; every packet weighing one ounce, at the rate of four single letters for each ounce. Every enclosure the same as a letter." ANNUAL EXCURSION OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1916. The annual excursions of the Friends' Historical Society have been, perhaps without exception, pleasant occasions, not only from the places of historic interest which have been visited, but also from the social intercourse for which such excursions afford the opportunity. The excursion of 1916 was no exception. The morning of Sixth month 10th was showery and threatening , but a little before noon the sky was brighter, and at 1.30 p. m. about seventy-five or eighty persons were seated in the special train which had been engaged for the party at Camden, New Jersey . The program for the afternoon was a visit to the " homes ANNUAL EXCURSION, 1916.63 and haunts " of John Woolman, so far as they could be identified, in, and in the neighborhood of Mount Holly, New Jersey. The especial object of the excursion was the house in Mount Holly which John Woolman built for his daughter in 1771, and which had lately been bought and placed in the hands of trustees, the history of which transaction is familiar to readers of the Bulletin .1 The first halt was made at Moorestown to take up those at that place who wished to join the party. The next stopping-place was at the station for Masonville, a village. Here, perhaps half the company got off the train and took automobiles, motor moving -vans or other conveyances, which were waiting for them, to visit sites and scenes too distant from Mount Holly to admit of walking in the limited time at disposal. The procession soon started, and it was amusing to see solid Friends, some of wide reputation, sitting in rows in a car on which was painted in large letters, " Pianos and other articles moved with care and promptness." Others of the company were in a car whose chief business was to take children to and from school, but now pressed into service for " children of a larger growth." The route lay almost due north, and in a short time a halt was made in front of a grove of fine trees near which was a graveyard evidently of Friendly character. This place, the company was informed, was the site of the meeting-house which John Woolman generally attended. About a quarter of a mile away was seen the old homestead of the numerous family of Stokes. From this place a short run brought us to the peaceful, shall we say sleepy, village of Rancocas. This little village lies embowered in fine trees, its wide shady main street is bordered by large red brick comfortable houses standing singly in well-kept lawns adorned with flower beds and shrubbery. Near the southern entrance of the village is the large brick meeting-house built in 1772, as that date in the gable set forth. This...