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Family news and plans to travel to York. Details on plan for building a house and stable. Fatherly spiritual advice and encouragement to persist in spiritual diligence.

Encouragement and spiritual advice to Friends in Scotland to stand together, resist temptations, and to both profess and live the Truth.

Asks for goods to be shipped to him for personal use. Requests plain items of good quality, including parlor chairs, arm chairs, chamber chairs, a day clock, tongs and shovel, India tea table, sconces, a painted floor cloth, fabric for a bed, a chamber Turkey carpet, and an India cabinet.

Financial matters involving sister taking a small loan.

Regarding religious education of Quaker youth to protect them from the language, customs, and habits of the world. Also, advice to aid young men of "low circumstances." Copied by I[srael?] Pemberton, Jr.

Estate settlement for late John Kinsey's debt. Asks to redistribute other debts, bonds, and lands to pay the debt.

Extracts from Yearly Meetings. 1751: Calls for more information to aid Samuel Smith in writing a history of the provinces. Proposes country schools. Discourages using the law to settle real estate disputes. Discusses change in the calendar. 1770: Notes on John Thornton's case with Middletown Monthly Meeting. Visits with families regarding attending meeting and owning slaves. Cautions against mixing with non-Friends and becoming involved with civil rights and liberties. Considering the history of first settlement of Friends in the provinces. 1784: Continuing care for youth's education and for Africans. Cautions against liquor. 1791: Consider establishing schools. Concerned about legislative and executive posts. Discourages traffic in public certificates of war expenses. 1793: Consider boarding school and education of youth. Continue testament against slavery. Notes on yellow fever outbreak. Clerks include Israel Pemberton, James Pemberton, John Drinker, and Nicholas Waln.

Admonition to live the plain life and train their children in it, to be careful in their public actions, and to remember early Friends' actions. Signed by William Dillworth. Includes a 1718 testimony against worldly fashions and vanity.

Epistle encouraging faith in Scotland.

Recounts copying a letter from Benjamin Franklin. Frustrated with Quakers and the Assembly who refuse to support the war effort in Pennsylvania.