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2. them. Then I found that Christ and his desipels did not go to war but Christ bor thescofs of men and the pane of deth for his inamais and as a lamb slane from the foundations of the world he was crusafide. Nevertheless I found a graite strogel in my mind and in this time in the nineteenth year of my aige and year of our Lord 1776 and 7 day of the first month I married to Sarah Wite, the daughter of Obadiah Wite who was baptis in their prinsobills. The war spred round the shoors of Amaraca sum towns was burnt sum harbors bolcked up. The common pepil was much in a devishan whether they shold fite for King or Congres but the Lord ofon sent his sperit on my soul and cost me to think why he shoold cose men to be created an yet let them kill one another at such a rate which I found to be thru their one perlutians and by the spirit of the wiked that cost men to foal which I believed Christ came to redeem men from, as his Life and doctrine wase of a pesabil loving nator and he taught his disipels to love one another and to love their inemes telling them at a sarting time that if his kingdom was of this world his servents would fight and he charged them to bair reviling and so fair from fiting was his commands that if they was smote on one cheke they was to turn the other and commanded them to do good for evil and as they would have men to do to them they should do to all men. Therefore, I conkluded all wars was wiked and the scriptor saith when a sort came on aland it was for the sins of the pepil and as I was not brought up in any prefessian of religon I begin to thinke what way or among what pepil I cold serve God in an acceptibel manor................ Now I begin to yous the plane scriptor language which cosed pepil to coll me a Quaker. Though my aquantans with that pepil was very small yet as I continued in that language I soon found an opportunity of seeing some of the sosiaty of those cold Quakers........ I found in my wives grandfather hous an old book much toor to bits cold George Fox Journal the first man cold a Quaker in Inglind that was a graite satisfaction to my sool when I red his advise in his episals and the account of his life I planely found that frends had much degenatrid from the puir prinsabils they had maintained. I believed some to come up to the mark and in this year I did request to com among frends but was not reseved. I had many despuits with the baptis and about this time they toke me out of their training list becose I would not fight. I was called before the captin. When he asked me whether I would not train I tole him that if he cold make it apear that Christ or his desipels did fighte then I would fighte or train. He gave me but litil ansarr, but cold for some nabor and inquired if I wase a Quaker and they told him they thought I was, so he let me go the last day of the year 1776. I had a son born Obadiah in the foreparte of the yeair 1777. Went to a plase cold Danby in the State of Vermont about 160 mils. I found land and hird som mony where I was aquainted and bote a letil. My wife begin the lator parte of this yeair to youse the plane languaige. I moved to Danby this year. I have had many tryals both alone and in company this year I ofon went alone and sat down to waite on the Lord and ofon found my strength to be renuid. After I moved to Danby a spell