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having gone on after the rain, gave notice and they
gather'd to the meeting apparently with gladness, and left us
I believe well satisfied. The committee requested the
heads of families to meet at 8 ocloick, the request was promptly
attended to, and as in the first so in this opportunity, we
we were well satisfied, in being there, and in no other
place in the world, could I have desired to be just then,
they were advis'd and encouraged to build a meeting house
and request a preparative meeting without delay; The
Lot of ground is given by James Moore at whose house we
lodgd, and where the meeting was held, of about 60 or 70 people
he is brother to Moses Moore, who married W Canbys sister
and a worthy couple, rather advance'd in years, has some
very clever promising children, They have a Saw Mill and
heaps upon heaps of elegant Logs already down, They think
they will have the House up between harvest, and winter. _
One circumstance to notice in our mornings ride was passing
or attempting to pass under a tree, blown down and broken
off one end rested on its own, and the other on another stump.
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Gleaning from "Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, Present and Past" by Thomas Lincoln Wall, 1925: The Friends who settled the area "undoubtedly held meetings at the house of James Moore in The Grampian Hills in 1811". A request to establish a meeting, called West Branch, was granted in Dec 1812 "to meet every First Day at the house of James Moore." A log meeting house was erected in 1824 on lands donated by the Moores for a meeting house and cemetery near Grampian. That "Indulged Meeting" was converted to a Monthly Meeting in October 1833 and was still active (1925) and meeting in a brick structure built "some years ago".