George Wharton and John Harwood, of London, appointed John Hance, of Shrewsbury, as their attorney.

Edward Wharton was a noted man in the history of the Society of Friends. He was in Salem as early as 1655 and was called "glazier." His business or "outward occasions," as Bishop's "New England Judged" terms it, required him to make frequent journeys to Rhode Island and other places, and he frequently accompanied Quaker preachers on their visits to various places, sometimes as far as Long Island. He first began to suffer for his faith in 1658. In 1659 he was given twenty-four lashes and fined £20, which a friend paid, as he would not pay it. In 1661 the stripes were again given to him and to John Chamberlain, supposed ancestor of the first Chamberlains of Monmouth, for protesting against the brutal hanging of William Leddra, who was hanged on Boston Common for preaching his faith. It is not stated that Chamberlain was then a Quaker, but his feelings of humanity prompted him to protest against the act. Wharton, despite all threats, remained with Leddra until he was executed. In 1662 he accompanied two Quaker women, preachers, named Alice Ambrose and Mary Tomkins, to Long Island. Here the Dutch authorities arrested all three of them, and also John Tilton and Mary, his wife, William Reape, of Newport, who was with them, and others, and kept them prisoners for ten days, and then put them all, except John Tilton and wife, on a ship and sent them out of their jurisdiction.

In 1664 Alice Ambrose and Mary Tomkins came to Boston from Virginia, where they had been pilloried and then "given thirty-two stripes with a whip of nine cords and every cord three knots."

Mary Tomkins, while in Boston, was taken so sick she thought she would die. Edward Wharton and another Quaker named Wenlock Christian, went from Salem to see her. The constables took her to jail and both women and the two men were ordered to be whipped. Colonel Temple interceded and got three clear, but they vented their wrath on Edward Wharton against whom they had no charge but that of leaving his home in Salem and coming to Boston to see a sick friend. Gov. Endicott issued his warrant to have Wharton given thirty stripes on his naked body, "convicted of being a vagabond from his own dwelling place." This warrant was dated June 30, 1664. Wharton was taken to the market place and stripped, and his arms bound to the wheels of a cannon. Constable John Lowell bade the hangman to whip, which was so cruelly done that it was testified that peas might be put in the holes made by the knots in the whip, on his flesh, arms and back. Wharton was not cowed by his cruel treatment, but after it was over he said, "I think I shall be here to-morrow, again!" He was well off and next day he said to Lieut. Governor Bellingham: "How is it that I should be a vagabond yesterday and not to-day?" Wharton had been in this country some twenty years and had supplied Governor Endicott with necessaries of life when he was in humble and suffering circumstances. A lengthy letter is given in Bishop's "New England Judged," complaining of Gov. Endicott's ingratitude and of his injustice. This letter was written by John Smith, possibly the one subsequently in Monmouth, whose wife Margaret had been imprisoned all winter by Endicott's orders. Smith upbraided him for his "hard hartedness to neighbors to whom thou hadst formerly been beholden to and helped in a time of want when thou hadst no bread!" Wharton was punished at other times, but the foregoing statements are sufficient to show why he aided in establishing the settlement in Monmouth where religious toleration should be insured.

The persistence of Wharton in travelling with Quaker preachers, visiting them in prison and aiding them in every way to the best of his ability, despite stripes and imprisonment, show an unselfish heroism rarely witnessed. He was highly esteemed by his Puritan neighbors for everything except his Quakerism.

Eliakim Wardell, who was first named in Monmouth, was a son of Thomas Wardell, who came to this country and was made a freeman at Boston, 1634 He had four sons. The father was disarmed in 1637, for being an Antinomian, as the followers of Ann Hutchinson were called. Some years later, when the Quakers began preaching their views. Eliakim harbored one of them named Wenlock Christison, for which the Court in 1659 fined him, and, as Wardell would not pay the fine, the officer levied "on a pretty beast for the saddle (says "Bishop's New England Judged") worth £14, which was taken for the fine, which was less than the value of the horse, the overplus, to make up to him, some of the officers plundered old William Marston of a vessel of green ginger, which for some fine was taken from him and forced it into Eliakim's house, where he let it be and touched it not. In process of time Eliakim came to be fined again, and whereas, according to law, he should have the overplus of the beast restored to him, yet the executors came and took the ginger away as aforesaid, which was all the satisfaction that was made to him. And notwithstanding, he came not to your invented worship, but was fined ten shillings for his absence and his wife's, yet he was often rated for priest's hire. And the priest, Seaborn Cotton (old John Cotton's son), to obtain his end, sold his rate to a man almost as bad as himself, who is named Nathaniel Boulton, who came on pretence of borrowing a little corn for himself, which the harmless, honest man, willingly lent him. And he. finding thereby that he had the corn, which was his design, Judas-like, he went and bought the rate of the priest and came and measured as he pleased. Another time he had a heifer taken from him for priest's rates, and then almost all his marsh and meadow ground taken from him, which was to keep his cattle in winter."

Eliakim Wardell was at one time sentenced to be whipped with fifteen lashes at the cart's tail, for alleged disrespectful remarks of Simon Bradstreet, which remarks he made because Bradstreet had spoken disrespectfully of his (Wardell's) wife. His wife's name previous to her marriage was Lydia Perkins. In 1662 Wardell and a man named William Fourbish witnessed the whipping of two Quaker women named Mary Tompkins and Alice Ambrose, at Newburyport, and for protesting against the punishment, both men were put in stocks. His wife Lydia had been a member of the church, but when the Quakers promulgated their doctrines she joined them. She was also a victim of the lash of the Puritans.

Eliakim Wardell and wife Lydia, at this time lived at "Hampton, fourteen miles from Dover." There is but little doubt that Wardell and wife, and Edward Wharton of Salem, and James Heard, all Quakers, were induced to aid in the settlement of Monmouth by the energetic Quaker merchant of Newport, William Reape, whose business led him to various places.