He thought once of prompting a petition to the legislature, to discourage all such importations in future.

He then thought of going and speaking to the House of Assembly, which was then sitting; but he was discouraged from both these proceedings.

He held, however, conference with many of his own society in the meeting-house chamber, where the subject of his visit was discussed on both sides with a calm and peaceable spirit.

Many of those present manifested the concern they felt at their former practices, and others a desire of taking suitable care of their slaves at their decease.

From Newport he proceeded to Nantucket; but observing the members of the society there to have few or no slaves, he exhorted them to persevere in abstaining from the use of them, and returned home.
In the year 1761, he visited several families in Pennsylvania, and, in about three months afterwards, others about Shrewsbury and Squan in New Jersey.