Joshua Lynch was a minister of Salem MM in the early 1800s.
While travelling in 1835, Lynch attended a meeting of the M4S of New England YM. Elisha Bates also attended the meeting and was so disruptive on the topic of Isaac Crewdson's book Beacon to the Society of Friends that Lynch was astonished by his behavior. Rather than continue his travels in New England, Lynch left for home. After reading the Beacon, Lynch visited with several members of the Ohio M4S to discuss the problems with the document in preparation for a possible reply (Elisha Bates, An Examination of Certain Proceedings and Principles of the Society of Friends Called Quakers, p. 37). Bates later wrote that Lynch told the Short Creek MM Elders that Bates should not be given travelling minutes (Bates, p. 87).
Sources: EAQG 4:736, 831-832, 977 |
