They found "several meetings chiefly composed of such as had joined the Society on the ground of convincement, mostly in places where no ministering Friend resided." In visiting one of these small meetings, John Yeardley relates a circumstance in the gospel labors of his friend Joseph Wood:-- We visited a little newly-settled meeting at Thornton Marsh, near Poulton in the Fylde.

Our worthy friend Joseph Wood had the first meeting of our Society that was ever held in this part.

It is so thinly inhabited that the Friends wondered at his concern to request a meeting; but one was appointed for him at an inn, I think a solitary house; a good many poor people came, and it was a most remarkable time.

J.W.said afterwards he believed there would be a meeting of Friends in that neighborhood, but perhaps not in his time.

It has now been settled about eighteen months.
This journey occupied them about two weeks, and on returning home John Yeardley makes the following animating remark:-- The retrospect of this journey in connexion with that of Wales afforded a sweet feeling of peace.