TITLE: Letter from John Hodson to John Bowne "at prison at Manathane" [Manhattan]
DOCUMENT ID: BFP 2018.1.02-02
DATE: “1st Day of the Week” [Sunday] Autumn 1662
DESCRIPTION & NOTES
Quaker John Hodson sends John Bowne an undated message of encouragement and shared religious conviction during Bowne's three-month period of imprisonment in Manhattan for religious non-conformity during the autumn of 1662: "...the eyes of many are on thee, some for evil and some for good; therefore be staid in thy mind and freely given up in all things."
Notes:
John Hodson settled in Maryland in the 1660s and became a leading member of the Dorchester Quaker Community.