Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

During the last war, Mr. Fox, a merchant of Falmouth, had a share in a ship, which the other owners determined to fit out as a letter of marque, very much against the opinion and inclination of Mr. Fox, who was of the society of Quakers: The ship had the luck to take two French merchantmen: and the share of the prize money due to Mr. Fox amounted to the sum of 150l. At the close of the war, Mr. Fox sent his son to Paris with the 150l. which he faithfully repaid to the owners of the ships taken. The young gentleman, to discover the owners of the vessels, was obliged to advertise them in the Paris Gazette: In consequence of this advertisement, he received a letter from a small village near Nismes, in the province of Languedoc, acquainting him, that a society of Quakers were established in that remote part of France, consisting of about 100 families--That they were so much struck with this true instance of generosity in one of their sect that they were very desirous to open a correspondence with their friends in England.

Since this accident, a Count Marfilliac, who is one of the heads of the society, has been in London to pay his friends there a visit, and is returned highly pleased with his reception. The society of French Quakers has subsisted in their present residence more than a century, without maintaining a correspondence with any other society. They are supposed to be a remnant of the ancient Albigenses, against whom several persecuting crusades were instituted in the reign of Philip the Second, towards the close of the twelfth century.

The Count de Marfilliac was a Captain of horse before he became a Quaker.