Sarah Fisher letter to Charity Rotch, Philadelphia, 1 month 27 1823

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	                    Philadelphia 1 month 27 1823
	My dear Aunt
	                   I thought thou would like to know
	a little more of the movements of our dear and valued
	friend, Elias Hicks.      He attended the month Meeting
	of Green street, where in the first meeting, after E Hicks
	had spoken, and taken his seat, Regina Shober, a
	member of our meeting, who was a Church woman
	a few years since, and has clearly proved to many
	that she is not clear of their superstitions, who went
	on purpose to oppose, what she thought rong doctrine,
	of the society of which she is a member, not only
	different from the belief of E Hicks, but, I believe, differ
	ent from the belief of most amongst us, placing
	our redemption on the sufferings and death of Jesus
	Christ, without the gates of Jerusalem. and after she
	took her seat, after appearing in supplication, to the
	same purpose, three friends, Joseph Sansom, a son
	of Johnathan Evans, and Sharon Carter, to sanction
	what she had communicated, said, amen!
	I with a number of others, left after the first meeting,
        which we were sorry for, although it would have been a
        time of suffering, had we have staid.
        in the last meeting, his Certificate was endorsed, with
        the full unity of the mens meeting, except those two
        friends who refused a visit in their families, and they
        were silent.  It was a mistake of mine that Joseph
        and Beulah sansom refused a visit from him, having