2 Before the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar by Parliament in 1752, the first day of the year was Lady Day, March 25, and the Quakers’ “First Month” was March.

3 Moulton, ed., Woolman Journal, 94.

4 George Fox argued that the number-system was the manner in which “they were given forth and called by God from the beginning,” in the book of Genesis. See Bauman, Let Your Words Be Few, 44.

5 Many examples appear in the Chester County Court Records.

6 Solberg, Redeem the Time, 231.