10 Wells, “Quaker Marriage Patterns.”
11 Frost, Quaker Family, 172.
12“It was now ripened in my mind, to go and see my dear Friend, Hannah Brown, having the free consent of my parents,” he wrote in his diary. After she agreed he approached her parents. “I let them know the occasion of my being there, and that I thought Parents had a right timously [sic, in a timely fashion] to know any intention of that sort.” Benjamin Ferris Diary, l.vi.1765, SWAR.