WILLIAM and AGNES BACKHOUSE had

eight children, viz.

JAMES, born at Yealand, on the 2nd of the

4th month, 1721; married Jane Hedley, of Darlington, in the county of Durham, on the 8th of the 2nd month, 1746; and died at Darlington, on the 1st of the 4th month, 1798; aged seventy-seven years. (See page 32.)

WILLIAM, born at Yealand, on the 4th of

the 6th month, 1724, married Elizabeth Thornton, daughter of Jonathan and Margaret Thornton, of Caton, near Lancaster, on the 5th of the 10th month, 1749; and died at New York, on the 25th of the 8th month, 1792; aged sixty-eight years. SARAH, born at Yealand, on the 9th of the 9th

month, 1726; died at Kellet, unmarried, on the 1st of the 11th month, 1766; aged forty years. (See page 46.)

JANE, born at Kellet, on the 12th of the 9th

month, 1728; and died there in the 12th month, 1742; aged fourteen years. AGNES, born at Kellet, on the 25th of the 10th month, 1730; married John Harrison of Darlington, on the 13th of the 9th month, 1764; and died there on the 25th of the 3rd month, 1797; aged sixty-six years. (See page 43.)

JOHN, born at Kellet, on the 10th of the

4th month, 1733; married Jane Dodshon, daughter of George and Elizabeth Dodshon, of Kendal; and died in New York, on the 31st of the 1st month, 1775; aged forty-one years.

THOMAS, born at Kellet, on the 1st of the 6th month, 1736; and died unmarried at Darlington, on the 1st of the 9th month, 1792; aged fifty-six years. (See notice of him.) DOROTHY, born at Kellet, on the 21st of the

12th month, 1740; and died at Lancaster unmarried, on the 27th of the 11th month, 1829; aged nearly eighty-nine years. (See page 45.)

AGNES BACKHOUSE.

No further particulars appear to have been preserved relative to the predecessors of AGNES BACKHOUSE, than the following brief record, collected chiefly from the testimony of Lancaster Monthly Meeting concerning her husband, from his letters, and from the recollections of her daughter, Dorothy Backhouse.

WILLIAM ATKINSON, son of RICHARD ATKINSON of Townend, in Monk Coniston, in the county of Lancaster, and SARAH WALKER, daughter of REGINALD WALKER, of Fell Foot, in Lile Langdale, in the county of Westmoreland, were married at Colthouse, near Hawkshead, on the 7th of the 12th month, 1693. They were well esteemed

members of the Society of Friends; their residence was at Low Wray, near Hawkshead; they had a daughter named AGNES, born the 4th of the 12th month, 1697, and married to William Backhouse, of Yealand, on the 21st of the 4th month, 1720.

AGNES BACKHOUSE was a woman of an excellent understanding; and being one who walked worthily of the vocation of a Christian, she became highly esteemed amongst her friends and neighbours, and was much sought to by them for counsel and help.

She was a true helpmate to her husband, sympathizing with him in his various exercises, and uniting with him in the endeavour to train up their children in the fear of the Lord : and when his religious duty required him to be absent from home, she tried to make his way as easy as she could, by

her prudent management of the family and of his business.

She was brought into a very depressed state of mind, at one period after his decease, in consequence of some who were dear to her, not acting as became persons professing godliness; and she was ready to despair of holding out to the end herself, when she saw others thus fall away but the Lord, who knew her integrity, was pleased in this season of trial and distress, to give her an assurance in her own mind that she should never fall; in the remembrance of which she was often comforted. And continuing to put her trust in Him, who was able to perform that which He had promised, she was enabled to fight the good fight, and to keep the faith; and to finish her course with joy, in the prospect of receiving that crown of righteousness, which is laid up in store for all them that love the appearing of the Lord.