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Secretary to the Honourable S c i £ T v. . \ L O N D O N, Printed by Joseph Downing, in Bartholotnew-CIofe, near tVefi-SmithJiM M. dcc. xxy. V. ! I ' /' ■I. *.. V.*i^.: fe! -I.- m THE PREFACR HM Defy^n of tbefyOming^ Tnofifif^ is to if^m the 9Mkh of tie TrarfaHms . 1. -^. fiort Accounts of the Society's ^roceeaings^ coma gi^e tke ,]Pi^a0r m a^^ fc^ Id^ of 'tie \jii^Qteffm^ Wori^ it batb been iiew t^ot^f^t.ionvf- nient to give a general Vtm^ tm !Soc^ etys Labours ; becaufe fo great and fo religious a T>efigny feemed only to want its being better underftood^ in order to its be" i^f^e encouraged. ,iW\^i^ ^^\v.s ■ ■ -*^ ■ ' ' ■ ■, ■' :^: l^-.^be End propofed is (f the highefi importance; the propagation (i the Cbri- jHan paithy and the Sahatioi^gf ^0s Sotels. Jnd the feridis Redder ',mifi,h much ^eUed with the Endeavours of the Society 9 towmcds planting Religion md J^irtue^ and^ the, dm ordering the .L^e^ and Manners of a numerous Teople fpread ipver exceeding. li^rgeComftries : efpeciafiy^ when it is femfn^edy- tha^.tb^ ^.rinci^ pifis implanted in the prefefitJ^fifile^mU i^ence future (jlenerations J md tbo ih f^efent J^e is greatly indebted to this Sshr i^^ihek ^ofieriP^i will ^^meedisigj^ "\r * j^ fs hojied jbe Rmder^. ttpon pcr^ j%^J&e: JolJbmpg Tap^Sy wHl.J^ jCgpfe to he much fl^jed wit A the un^'i ex- ■? 1 :v-.>-- /.. esfpe^ed Sufcefs of fo peai a Work. JS/^ petialffi if a is confidired^ that this m di^iath no pubUck Incyiu or iRi^ont^* 1[%1s ghdWorkwas dtjnft. fupportedi^y tbi ^Slum^ Suhfcriftions of the Mmi^ Iws if tlfo Society^ and bath been e^er finct carried on by tbeir ContrihutionSy and tbe cafual Donations qf maty otber^ worthy Terfons. 7 be Support of tbis Btf- fign mufl tberefore he afcribed wboHi/ to tbat good VroifidencOy wbicb batb in» fluenced fucb Religious and Honourable Verfons to become unforefeen Patrons, and mam of tbefn (tbro* tbeit Concealment if ibeit Names) unknown Benefactors to tbisCbarity. i^ * "; I'befame good Providence batb brougbt down upon it the peculiar Favour of our Princes. J^ieen MARY by berSountv gave the chief Occafion to the Rife (f tbis &Kiety, King WILLIAM EftablUhed it, Q^een ANNE Encouraged it^ and Hiii lateMajefty King GEORGE fuf ported if: 'For when the Society's Fund was aU mqft exbaufiedy an humble Reprefentaiion of tbis Matter^ from the Society^ was laid before His late Majefty^ of happy Memory^ bf bis Grace the prejent Archbifhop if Ganterfaury, the moft worthy Trcfident of 1^ /I t^'iv ^'kU '^^lv:J;; 5i'?i •.Mm«; n- tbis ■•m Vf "Sr^ and Tmaim ^Ws M^^^^my «#- pilj^ Reigning^ firmn bis knew Ztal fyr the Pr0U/lant ReHgm, and R^tal Can for the Qfbmesy fo mfiderMe a Sraneb w \Accmiiia NoUe Tiantatms in tie Ijland (^^iB&floes, producing a wry eonfiderahk ym^fy Income : Secaufe that IBfiate is net applicable to the gene- ral Ufes (f the Society ^ jucb as the fifport- f «g (f Miffonaries^ Catecbifts^ and SchooU maftersi hut is appropriated to particular VfeSy mentioned in tbe late General Co- drington'j Will* 1'be ontp Intent rf the following I'reatife is to acquaint the Tub- lick with the Society s Endeavours to^ tcitt^ds lettling Keiiyijion in the Colonies on the Continent of America. Whereas in the Management ef tbe 'Plantations be- queatbed ■nm'j;i\s A?. I y" r )\-T» X^^ ^«t >•' \ 4 *^'J.. Hy^ ♦*• ^>3Si^ ' -y\ -..u^ V H A P. L 7^9 Occafions of the firft Bjfi of this SO c I E rr. *»«; 'J ■ t\\ l' ..■ • page I CHAP. n. Enquiries made into the Religious State of the Colonies. S7f$ particular State cf each Colony dafer'thed, CHAP. nL ^* P*(>p/^ in the Colonies very defirous ofl^nifters of the Church of England : Kequefis from Congregations of People in each Colony^ ,, V ' : V"- p. 44 *i CHAP. IV. S^e Seftimonials required by the Society from the Mijfionaries they fend abroad, lihe Rules they give them for their Con- dufff. ^e Reverend Mr. Keith and Mr. Talbot fent Travelling Preachers thro' feveral Cohmies^ P 66 CHAP. The Contents. 9HAP. V. Mifiof$ari$s fent u SovLJiti'CM.t^ JkoM, : S[^t Flaeu to which tb$y mtr* aj^intfd; ^, #U> lahours md Sueerfs . A W^^ filipjk h : it^ln Tammofees and cthir laSu^;aiai»jitb9 Engliih. ^# JranquUIity of this frwincfi hap' piiynftond: fifteen Churches and four Cha" pels of EafcBuiit: Salaries fetthd on the Oerp: ■■• Schools opened, ^,^%t^v^,f, ^^^ ^ivna*. P' ^' CHAP. VI Mffionaries fent to iianh'-Cj^t^ ,x?^fiiu ^e Reverend Mr. Bliir fent Miffio^ r nary, undergoes ^reat Harilbips, returns to v.£ngUnd. Other Miffionaries jfent tbitlfer; -they met with many Bijffciihi0s,..riturg t$ C: Eagland. ^heTuCcKtro Indian ]ffri^^Cm^ fpiracy againft the EngMth, ravage the Cokny ^ - , ^are at length defeated, Mr, New^m/iii^, J^ . fionary, takes great Pains in his MJjflon,^ies, >^ t 128 y^A-. L^x. r CHAP. VII. Penfylvania fettled at firfi hy w Swedes nnd Du^^^ ; 4 v^ confiderable, Nutn- t tftt of Qnakicxs go over fr(fm^tt^nd thither^ t ^e Reverend ^fi*. Evans /ir»M(^ Phaadelphia, ^ hy Bijbop Compcon. vf very large Congregation -V at Philadelphia. ^Several M{0mafies fent to Penfylvama. S^ir Lahours and ^ccefs,. ^^ Fifteen (lurches bnilf in this Colony ^ volun-^^ i tnry Contributions, No Salaries fettled on the Minifters, but the People contribute liberally to^ ward their Support, CftAP The Qokoaioi. ^ Jhftarles Latoars. fbtPetfh hee$m «iiy )t#«. CHAP. IX. ^ yf<^ >fs^ in tht Ttar iSg^^ ^ "^fw Settling and JUaimafmng a Mnifltf in New-York Government, Churches dire^ed to 1^^ tnihin itfpS. ACburch kuilt in the Gty ^^yNew-Tork. Mffionaries fent to the Qdtmy^ to Wdk-CkdUtt County, fo Albany. loSouxen- 7 Iffand, /d Long-Hlatid, r^&tf/r Lnbours. Schooima* ' fters jupported here. Ten Churches BuUt; Stve* ' rat ibonatiens made to them, * '^ --^<^f^ 200 in' ^ HAP. X. The Society vety earnefi t» pro- mote thtlnftruSiionoftbe Negroes. ?!&# Negroes an exceeding great Numbtr afPerfons, The So* ciety direSi all their Mffionaries to give their hefi dffifidnce. The Soill^ fettU a School at Ncw-Toric City fit itifim^ing the Negroes. Mr, Neaii Catechifi there, very induftrious^ in- firuSis many. The Neg^s conffirt to deftroy the £hgiifli. f%e Plot pr&oes unjuccefsfitl^ ma- ny of thi'iicgeots taken and executed^ The School is again encouragedfir converting the Ne- groes, itfr. Neiu dies. The Reverend Mr, Colgkh appointed Catechifi, ^ ■ ^^ - ^ ; vO ^ f . 23 1 An ADDKESSto ferious Chriftians among our /elves, to aflift the Society for Propagating the Gofpel^ ^ I The Gontents. r Gofpel, in carrying on the Work ofJnfiH^ing fhe l>t^oes in our FItntttddns abroad^ '. p. 250 Ur to the Mafters and MiftrdTes of Families in the Englifh Plantations abroad ; Exhorting them ' to encourage and promote the InftruSfion'Of their' l^Cffocsin the Chriftian Faith^ ^-^ " p. 257 LETTER n. ^be^BiJbop of London's , Letter to the'M.issiovi kKi^s /M^/&^EngU(h Plantations ', Exhorting them to give their jiffifiance towards the InftruSiion of the Ne- groes of their federal Parijhes^ in the Chrifiian Faithy . cv-3. ji\ -^^...^ssA-^it^Vi^p. 272 ff-. CHAP. XI. ?^tf Iroquois border (?/it New-York < naging this ^ruft. ^eir more fpecial Rules and Ordersy relating to themfelves and to their Officers^ '';; „ • : v^ . ^ P-343 ■\-T'; P.I I'." '.' »''' * " iiU ::ir^^i '^'^^-^ xiH WILLIAM >**< ■^ ''^^ «!."? « :? .'*<^T?»' 4 vr .^ft- i V J i*" ■'f ■^ ■■* '"- ; ;t--.y.J -v yvW, 1^ .aHA ♦ ».'* ;*Vv%J ►-i^' ** i^./ . nu£ » - '. ■r Y ^', .'i-'^^ .1 ■■:M^ nq r\*>-r -i ^ "9 "T* ■• T- J >■••-* »>li.^ ^ji A^ aK^' A(«..^^ .^in ^ A ,i.«i».^». i >;isv.'-»iji. Ci^v^-:/^-s 1 ^ .n ^-1 1,1 V : _ <» ■ » T 1^ * .V -. A^/l j04< u^-;^' ,ii.'':;i. . >. -.T .*7 r "> -a «,j"r -:i ^■-', -^U ^ ■«• » . », . i!>ii- ■ ■* .« >^ «»ir' ■-.J,-, vf ^ f-ir '>4«A f>- 'tc If.'f \ ,' ji^-^it^* - ■< • ttf5: -Ok. 401 ;^>a^s % A - i A» .,...; c* n T T ?'~Jt:? _'?•>: 'T- ?B |^>..»i.v iV o^hv •- •* ; ■ ' '* t.. H' :>r-, o> • xv ILLIAM die Third, by the Grace of G O D, ot England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, ^c. To all Chriftian People to whom thefe Prefcnts (hall come, Greeting. I. Whereas We are credibly In- foraied, That in many of Our Plan- tatibn^ Colonies and Faftories be- yond the Seas, belonging to Our Kingdom of England^ die Provifion for Minifters is very mean, and ma- ny others of our faid Plantations, Co- lonies and Faftories, are wholly De- ftitutc and Unprovided of a Main- tenance Wi The Charter. tenance for Minifters, and the Publick WorfHp of God; and for lack 6f Sup- port and Maintenance for fuch^ many of our Loving Subjefts do want the Adminiftration of God's Word and Sacraments, and feem to be abando- ned to Atheifm and Infidelity ; and alfo for want of Learned and Ortho- dox Minifters to inftruft our faid Lov- ing Subjefts in the Principles of True Religion, divers Romifli Priefts and Jefuits are the more encouraged tp pervert and draw over Our &id Loving Subjeds to Popifli Superftiti- on and Idolatry. . |^ 11. And whereas We think it our aToTthod^ox ^^^y^ ^^ much as in Us lies, to pro- ciei^y, and o- mote tlic Glory of God, by the In- may be made ftrudiou of Our Pcoplc lu thc Chrif- pTgation of tian Religion : and that it will be high- Ihe^PknLti"'y conducive for accomplifliing thofe Ends, that a fufficient Maintenance be provided for an Orthodox Clergy to live amongft them,and that fuch other Provifion be made as may be necefla- ry for the Propagation of the Gofpel in thofe Parts. • ^ . . i, m. And T&at aMain- ons btyond the Sea. TheCh^Ur. %t^ III. And whereas we have been well affured. That if We would be gracioufly pleafcd to ereft and fettle a Corporation for the receiving, ma- naging and difpofing of the Charity of Our loving Subjedls, divers Perfons would be Induced to extend their Cha- rity to the Ufes and Purpofes af orei^d. IV. Know ye therefore, That We have, for the Confiderations aforefaid, incorporates and for the better and more orderly car- Jop ^l"" car- rying on the faid CharitablePurpofes,6f 'J^jJ^^ ^^^^^ 93 Our fpecial Grace, certain Knowledge, ^'^/^'^^ ^^^ and mere Motion, Willed, Ordained, Propagation of Conftituted and Appointed, and hypfre^fparf" thefe Prefents, for Us, Our Heirs and Succeffors, DoWilljOrdain, Conftitute, Declare and Grant, That the moflRe-* verend Fathers in God, Thomas Lord Archbifliop of Giwf erittry , and ^ofcw Lord Archbifliop of 7ork^', the Right Reve- rend Fathers inGod,He;iry Lord Bifhop of London J William Lord Bifhop of l^or- cefter^ Our Lord Almoner, 5i/«o?iLord Bifhop ofH/jf, Thomas Lord Bifhop of ^defter y Dean of JVeJimmfter ; and the Lords Archbifhops of Canterbury and (fo- «•< M- Xi^i^l^ the Kfhops of London axjA Elh the Lord Almoner and Dc^n of »Vy?- tninfur for the time hcmg ^Edwar4 Lord Bifhop of Gloucefter^ John Lord Bifhop of Chiehe/^rj NicMashoxA Bi- fhop of Chtftiry 9(khard Lord BUhop of iitth and Wettsy Humphrey Lord K- fliop of Bangor ^ John Montague Do£tpr of Divinity, Clerk of our Clofet, WiUi- am Sherlock^Do&oT of Divinity, Dean of St. Taul\ William Stanley Doftor of Divinity, Arch-Deacon of London^ and the Clerk of the Clofetj of Us, Our Heirs and Succeffors ; the Pean of St. fPaufs and Arch-Peacon of London for the time being; the two ^gius and two Margaret rrofeflbrs of Divinity of both Our Univerfities, for tixe time being 5 Thomas Earl of Thanety Thomas Lord Vifcount fVeymouthj Fr^cis Lord Guilfordy William Lord 2)gi>, Sir Thomas Cookes of Sent//, Sir (^khard Sulktey^ Sir John ^hilipps, and Sir Arthur Oweny Ba- ronets ; Sir Humphry Maekporthy Sir Wtl^ liamfrichardy Sir William ^ujfely Sir Ed- mund Turner, 3ir WiUiamHujtlery Sir John Chardiuy and Sir ^chard fBlacktnorey Kts. The charter. John HookEfq'y Serjeant at LaW, George Hoofer Do&or of Divinity, Dean of Canterhury^ George Sooth Doftor of Di- vinity, Arch-Deacon of Durhantj Sir George Wheeler y Prebendary of Durhaniy William Sel^eridge DoSor of Divinity, Arch-Deacon of Colchefterj Sir Wtlliam Dames Baronet, Thomas Manninghamj Edward Gee^ Thomas Lynford^ Nathaniel (^sburyy Offspring &ack})ally George Stan- hopey iViUiam Hayleyy and V',A i .^'^"^Form as any other Our Leige Subieds ciD.ifio i»;ho0f this Our Realrh or Eniland. hcm^ ofiv/. n;a}n»Perfons ablc and capable in the Law, ' • er any other Body Corporate or Poli- ^li- $.,<^'' ' "tick 7h Charter', xxui #*»i4 .7'.' 'iM rtsr tick within thit our Repilm of Bnglmidf > call) or may havC) purchafci receiv^^ poflefi} take^ enjoy, grant) fet, let)j?/^'^'- fliall appoint : And that they, orthcry'^iToi!'^^* major part of fuch of them as fhall then be prefent, (hall proceed to the Eleftion of one or more Vice-Prefi- dent or Vice-Prefidents, one or more Treafurer or Treafurers, two or more Auditors, one Secretary, and fuch other Officers, Minifters, and Servants, as to them ihall feem meet ; which faid Officers, from the time of their Eleftion into their relpeftive Offices, fhall continue therein until the third Friday in February^ which fhall be in the Year of our Lord, One Thoufand Seven Hundred and One, and from thenceforwards until others fliall be chofen into their Places in manner aforefaid. r, r .•.\-v 1 ^fi' i"v. ..•:f5«'«v XI. son 7%e iChaf^K I o^l'Z Xt And that if it (hould hippen^ AeR^lfid^t ^^^ ^ ^ the P^rfons^taiay time or (me of the choferi iHto anjT^^ thc faid Offices Tmt^mzy flmll ' Dic, Of ou ianjT accdUflt be 3re- mSof* movtjd from fuch Office at ai4y time Jjj^^^y '*" betv^een die faid yearly Days of Eledi- choofe ano- oil, that ill fuch Cafe it fhall be lawful ther in his ^ t/*'** i •• <»% Place; tor the lumving and continuing rr^- fidcnt, or any one of the Vi^e-Prefi- dentS) to Iffue Summons to the feveral Members of the Body Corporate, to meet at the ufual Place of the Annit- al Meeting of the faid Society, at fuch Time as fhall be fpecified in the faid Summons ; and that fuch Members of the faid Body Corporate who fhall meet upon fuch Summons, or the Ma- jor part of them, fhall and may choofe an Officer or Officers into the room or place of fuch Perfon or Perfbns, fo Dead or Removed, as to them fhall feemmeet. ' - " ^ ^ -?" And that the XII. Aud Wc do further Grant un- meet tolrLf- to the faid Society f the M , i <../(; A J. 'j.', The Charter] XXIX the fame ought to be, on the Penal- ties and Amerciaments in the fame to be impofed and limited, fo as the fame Laws,Conftitutions, Ordinances, Penalties, and Amerciaments, be rea- fonable, and not repugnant, or con- trary to the Laws and Statutes of this , pur Realm of England. » y XV. And We do likewife Grant And the faid linto the faid Society for the ^ropagationny Meeting of the Gofpel in Foreign ^artSj and their fiJ^'Jerfons^to Succeffors, that they and their Succef-J^^^f ^^,^i' fors, or the Maior part of fuch of them^°"^<^ ^°- n 11 1 r • -neycontnbu- as mall be prefent at any Meeting of ted for the the faid Society, fliall have Powerforcfald.' from time to time, and at all times hereafter, to depute fuch Perfons as they fliall think fit to take Subfcrip- tions, and to gather and colled fuch Monies as fliall be by any Perfon or Perfons contributed for the purpofes aforefaid. ' ' t XVI. And fliall and may remove And may 11. /-I riTN • r caufe publick and diiplace iuch Deputies as otten Notification as they fliall fee caufe fotodo, andl'^"^^''' to caufe publick Notification to be made of this Charter, and the Pow- ers And (lull yearly give account to the laid out. if: The Charter} ers tkereby granted, in fuch manner a« *hey ihdl thmk mod conducible tothe furtherahce of the faid Charity. XVII. And Our further Will and Pleafure is, That the faid Society fliall Jdkfrfr^ " yearly and every Year, give an Ac- Kecpcr, and couHt in Writing to Our Lord Chan- juiiices, or ccUour, or Lord Keeper of the Great of au MonTys Seal of En^Utid for the time being, the received and L^j.^ Qj^j^f Juftice of the King's Bench, and the Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, or any two of them, of the feveral Sum or Sums of Money by them received and laid out by Virtue of thefe Prefents, or any Authority hereby given, and of the Management and Difpofition of the Revenues and Charities afore- faid. And Laftly, Our Pleafure is. That thefe Our Letters Patents, or the Inrolment thereof, fhall be giod, firm, valid, and efFeftual in the Law, according to Our Royal Intentions herein before declared. In Witnefs whereof, We have caufed thefe Our - vv.v>i.nu^ ,r.:*'- ^(i-^UAV^xiiM Letters "^ ; The Charter. xxxi Letters to be made Patents. Witnefs Our Self at We/iminfter the Sixteenth Day of Junej in the Thirteenth Year of Our Reign. Ter ^reVe de TriVato SigiHo^ c c KS' I. <^tr (-. J t J • . ■«* '(ft < •h LO "J": AN to ::^aylot^ :>■ O ^J?tT S*^^ i '■| ^0- > 9h ■ y ^ e*»- . .vi^ fc' !Zfe -« ^ '«*#* t'^^^> \ Nun to b eithe :,.,„. ^ ■ - A N Hiftorical Account ., .:i>a ^^ ■.,.->• ■: o F T H E . -- ::>Ci^^^- Incorporated Society JSic. C HAP. I. 2^^ Occafions of the firfi Rifi of this . societt: i> ?i^irfrWAfi| | H E Britifi Colonies upon the The Carfes Continent of America, were^l^/JH^.^^; all fettled firft by private Clergy. Adventurers, under Grants from the Crown, with fmall Numbers of Families. It was therefore not to be expeded that the proper Provifion, either in the Religious or Civil Concerns of B the ft The Occafions of the the Inhabitants, could be at firfl made. In- deed if a Colony had been planted imme- diately by the State here, it is not to be queflioned, but proper Care had been taken that both {hould have been duly regulated. But as the firft private Adventurers laboured under great Difficulties at their fettling, and under many Uncertainties, M^hat the Event would be : This, tho' not a fufficient Reafon, may yet be an Excufe, for their not making the proper Proviiion in this Cafe. A Tryal was firft to be made, of what Ad- vantage thefe Settlements would prove, either to the Adventurers, or Nation, before either would engage themfelves in farther Expence. ^^ c M.t^f^ Another Misfortune, which greatly hindred any uniform and publick Worjfhip of God being fettled, was this: The Natives of this Kingdom of Great Britain, who removed thither, were of many Kinds of Denominations s moft of them difTentins from the Church of EnglandyZnd difagreeing as much from each other, in their Senti- ments in Religion and Church Govern- ment, as from their Mother Nation and Church. Befides, a further difficulty arofe foon, from the Conflux of People of feveral Nations of Europe^ of various Se^s and . Di- Rife ^ this Society. Divifions, fettling in thefe Plantations } which occafioned a ftill greater Diveriity of Opinions. It is therefore not to be won- dred, that the People were not earned to fettle any Eilablifhment, when fo few agreed upon any particular Form. But in a fmall procefs of Time, when thefe Settlements were fixed, and the Colo- nies eflablifhed, beyond the fear of any or- dinary Force, which might deflroy them -, they began not only to fee, but very fenfibly to feel their Wants. Indeed the firft Plan- ters, thofe of the Britijh Nation efpecially, as coming from a Countrey bleiTed with the pureft Religion, and trueft Liberty, retained fome remembrance of both,andlived through the force of that, in thofe wild Parts, among Savages and Woods, in human Civility and Decency, tho' I cannot fay, in Chriftian Order : But their Children (the Generation after them) who had not themfelves feen what their Fathers had, were but weakly aflfedted with what they might hear from their Parents, of the Primitive Chriftian Worfliip, and the Ordinances of the Gof- pel. Some whole Colonies lived without celebrating any Publick Worfhip of Al- mighty God, without the Ufe of the Sacra- ments, without Teachers of any kind, and B 2 ill 4 The Occajions of the in a literal Senfe of the Phrafe, without God in the World. Severalcmi- 2. In this dark State of Things, the nent Pcrfons providence of G o D raifed up feveral emi- Want of a nent Perfons, who obferving this great Clergy. Calamity, became zealous to redrefs it; ftrove to awaken the People into a Senfe of their Wants, and contributed their Af- liftance towards recovering their Country- men from this Irreligion and Darknefs. Among the firft we find the Honourable Sir Leolyne Jenkins^ in his laft Will and Teftament proved the <)th of November, 1685, thus declares j that it was " too ob- vious that the Perfons in Holy Orders, employed in his Majefty's Fleets at Sea, ** and Foreign Plantations, were too few " for the Charge and Cure of Souls arifing " in thofe Fleets and Plantations : And ** therefore he provides, that two additional ** Fellowfhipsbe new founded, and endowed at his Coft and Charges, in Jefus College Oxford^ on Condition that the faid two Fellows, and their Succeflbrs for ever, may be under an indifpenfable Obliga- tion, to take upon them Holy Orders of Priefthood — and afterwards that they go out to Sea, in any of his Majefty's Fleets, when they or any of them are ; thereto r-ti^ Cz CHAP. 20 En^uimes into the Religious '1 mo-^v^ ^^ i- .■^ ;;0. ,j '.i:f ', i.-^ CHAP. II. ' im-:\l urn ^ ■■■'■'• Enquiries made into the Religious State 0/ the Cohnies. The particular State of each Colony defcribed. The Society j enquire into the particular State of each Colony. T H E Society thought they had now made a promifing Entrance into the Difcharge of the Truft committed to them, and from the Zeal of their Members, and other Correfponding Gen- tlemen, had Hopes of gaining a Fund fuffici- ent to make a firft Step in fo great a Work. They were acquainted with the ge- neral Condition of the Colonies with re- gard to Religious Affairs, but thought this Knowledge not fufHcient to proceed upon : They made Enquiries of all proper Perfons, Merchants and others here, and wrote to Governours, Congregations of People, and other Perfons of Diftindlion in the Plan- tations, for a more particular Account of the State of Religion in xht American Colonies J that by fuch a diftindt Infor-. jnation, they might more fuitably apply their State of the Colonies. their Help where it was moft wanted and moil defired. 21 And they received indeed from thence a more melancholy Account than any their Fears could fugged, feveral Relations fetting forth, that the very Indian Darknefs was not more glootny dnd horrid, than that in which fome of the Englifh Inhabitants of the Colonies lived. Such as did truly verifie this Obfervation in the Charter : '* Some Colonies and Plantations wholly deflitute and unprovided of a Mainte- nance for Minifters, and the Publick Worfhip of God, and for lack of fuch Support and Maintenance, many of the Subjects of this Realm want the Admi- " niftration of God*s Word and Sacra- ments, and feem to be abandoned to Atheifm and Infidelity j and alfo forxhe Colonies want of learned and orthodox Minifters«*P°!5<^ *** . to inftru^ them in the Principles of true popery. Religion, divers Romip Priefts and Je- ^^ fuits are more encouraged to pervert " and draw them over to Popijh Super- " ftition and Idolatry". Thefe Words of the Charter do truly exhibit the Reafon, and fet forth the Neceffity of the Ella- blifhment of this Society; Becaufe as to the firft Remark, that " great Numbers of C 3 " the « cc cc ' The Society, upon their firft engaging in this Work, prefently perceived it con- fifted of three great Branches, the Care and In- i State of the Colonies. Inftrudlion of our own People, fettled in the Colonies J the Converfion of the In- dian Savages, and the Converfion of the Negroes. The Englijh Planters had the Title to their firft Care, as Brethren and Countrymen, as having been once Chri- Itians^ at leaft their Parents. Befides, ic would be ineffectual to begin with an Attempt to convert the Indians and Ne- groes, and to let our own People continue in their grofs Ignorance, or fupine Negli- gence of all the Duties of Chriftianity : For both the former Sorts of Men, would neceflarily take their firft Impreflions con- cerning Chriftianity, from the Englijh-, and wh^ they found them pay fo little Obe- die . to the Laws of the Gofpel, muft either negledt it as an unprofitable Labour^ or hate it as a heavy Impofition. 23 2, The Society began therefore with the Englijhy and foon found there was more to be done among them, than they had as yet, any Views of efFe with the Advantages of fome Pa- rochial Libraries^ hath been eftabliihed, and many 28 Enquiries into the Religious many Schools have been ereded for the Education of their Children. The So- ciety therefore did maintain no Miniflers in Virginia^ as thinking the People able to make a fufHcient Provifion for their Sup- port themfelves, tho* they have on fome Occafions made Or'^ tuities to Clergymen there. . ,;./."■ \ , . , /,v.,:t , The State of T H E next Colony, Maryland^ a fpacious Maryland. Country, and like Firginioj perhaps the beft Watered of any in the World, abounds with numerous commodious Harbours. The firft Settlement made here, was in the Year 1633. confining of about 200 Englijh, the chief of which were Gentlemen of good Families. By the good Condudt of the firft Governors, the Colony grev/ up and flourifhed foon, and Religion now is pretty well eftablifhed among them. Churches are built, and there is an Annual Stipend allowed each Minifter by a perpetual Law ; which is more or leis according to the Number of Taxables in each Parifh, and is levyed by the Sheriff among other pub- lick Revenues : Yet notwithftanding thefe Advantages, no where elfe to be found in the Englijh America^ except Virginia^ they wanted feveral more Clergymen for their Pariihes> but fince the Beginning of the late \j ni\< >i*.,,i(i.* , ^ ■■• »*' State of the Cohnies. late Governour h.^holfon's Time, the Face of Affairs is much mended, and the Churches are now crowded with Perfons duly at- tending Divine Service, the Number of Paptfis,vrho went over there, hath decreafed, Sluakerifm hath loft Ground, and true Re- ligion made conliderable Advances. The Society have fent no Miflionaries hither, tho* this Colony required a larger Number of Clergymen ; becaufe there hath hitherto been a loud and urgent Call for all their Fund could give, by the following Colonies, which were, until fupplied by the Society, entirely deftitute of a Miniftry. r--- 2$ \)ii 5. Penfyhania is the firft of thefe, a large The state of Country, extending above 120 Miles m^^^fy^'^'''''' Length, and in fome Parts of a great Breadth J fettled firft by fome Dutch and Swedes ; the Dutch Plantation fixed on the Frefties of the River Delaware. The Fins or fome In- habitants of Finland, compofed the Swedijh Colony ; the Swedes applied themfelves to Husbandry, the Dutch to Trade, the latter grew foon too powerful for the former ; and tho' the King of Sweden appointed formerly a Governour here to protect his Subjedts, yet in the Year 1655, ^^^ Swedijh Governour John Rizeing^ made a formal Surrender of the Country to the Dutch so •V <'■.■;:' A Enquiries into the Religious Governor. But the EngliJhYXett in the Year 1664, having obliged New Amfierdam^ now called New York^ to furrender, and the E«- gUJh alfo making themfelves Matters of the adjoining Plantations on the Continent, both Parties in this Country, the Dutch and Sii'eedSy peaceably fubmitted to the Englijh, Mr. Pen, the Proprietary, who had the Grant of this Country, called it from his own Name Penfylvania. There were but few Englijh in this Colony, be- fore this Gentleman carried over a con- fiderable Body of Adventurers, about 2000 Perfons, all Quakers, who were more readily difpofed to venture with him, as being reputed the Head of that Seft of People in England. '"Ji.! T H IS fpacious Country was thus fettled by People of feveral Nations, and of va- rious Opinions in Religion j the Dutch were Cahinijisy the Swedes^ Luther anSy the main Body of the Englijhy fakers : But a few Years after the fakers fettled here, Per- fons of feveral other Perfuafions in Reli- gion came over, and fome Members of the Church of England. The fakers alfo divided among themfelves, on Account of fome different Sentiments in Religion, and fet up feparate Meetings. The other Inimbitants followed each vrbat was good in "^^^ State if the Colomes. in his own Eyes. The Publick Worthip of God was generally neglcdled, and the whole People lived without the inftituted Means of Grace and Salvation; tho' a great Body of Men, amounting now to near loodo Perfons ; fettled in feveral commo- dious Towns for Trade and Husbandry. But they have lince approved themfelves a worthy and induftrious People, and have of late Years, (ince the Church of England Worfliip hath been fet up among them, by voluntary Contributions, built feveral Churches, erected Schools, reformed their Lives and Manners, and made confiderable Improvements in Trade, Husbandry, and Induftry of all Kinds, 3« vxti'^mj- 6. The next Colony is New 3^r;^ Go- State of iVw- vernment, formerly called Nova Belgia, or New Netherlands^ becaufe firft fettled by the Dutch ; the Soil is faid to be exceed- ing fruitful, and the Climate the moft healthy of all the Britijh America, The firft Bounds of this Country, when poflefs'd by the Dutchy were Maryland on the Souths the main Land as far as it could be dif- covered Weftwardy the great River Canada^ Northwardy and New Englandy Eajhward. The Eafi 2x1^ Weft JerfteSy were afterwards taken out of it, and given to Under Pro- —--y. prietarics. 32 Enquiries into the Religious ' prietaries, by the Duke of Tork, who had the Grant of the whole. The Jerfies were firft fettled by Sweeds and fome Dutch, afterwards by Englijh Inhabitants; However, as New Tork and the Jerfies arc now under one Governor, the Reader may confider them as one Country, extending near 400 Miles in Length, on the Sea-Coafl, and in Breadth 120. A very fpacious Country, enriched with two noble Streams, the Hud-' fon and Delaware Rivers, running feveral hundred Miles, and navigable up above a 100 into the main Land, by Ships of great Burthen, and both falling into the Sea with commodious Harbours. I muft not omit mentioning here, hong-ljland, a confiderable Branch of this Government. «v v);,i/It is fituate oppofite to the New York Xoafl, an Ifland above 100 Miles long, and about 12 broad, fettled firfl by the Dutch , and afterwards by fome Englijh from New England, now a populous Country, exceed- ingly fruitful, having on the Eaji Part 10 Englijh Towns, who were computed to have above 800 Families in the Year 1701, and on the Weji Part, 9 Dutch Towns, reckoned to contain above 500 Familiies. The People were of various Seds and De- nominations, chiefly Independents and Qua*- kers, who had removed from Nev^r En^ i^' State of the Colonies. glanJ, together with many others not pro* fefling any Sort of Religion. The whole Body of this Government, Long'JJland^ Stattert'IJland^ the Counties on the Continent, and both the Jerfies, had no Publick Worfhip duly fettled; a great Variety of Sentiments and Schemes in Re- ligion obtained every where, and the Dutch who remained there under the ^n^jijk Government, lived in the mod orderly ;ind Chriftian Manner: I (hall give aDefcripti^'n of the Religious State of this Country, <:i the Words of an excellent Perfon, Colouel Heathcote^ a Gentleman who had « con- fiderable Fortune there. He wrote thus to the Society in 1704. " Being fa vomxd '* with this Opportunity, I cannot omit " giving you the State of this Country^ *' in relation to the Church, and (hall be- " gin theHiftory thereof, from the Time " I firft came among . them, which was " about 12 Years agoe. I found h the " moft rude and Heathenifh Country I " ever faw in my whole Life, which called " themfelves Chriftians, there t elng not fo " much as the lead Marks or Footfteps " of Religion of any Sort. Sundays were " only Times fet apart by them for all J^ manner of vain Sports and lewd Diver- •'—-^ D . «« fions. i^ If .■ 34 Enquiries mu^ the Religious " iions, and they were grown to fuch " a Degree of Rudenefs that it was in* " tolerable* I having then the Com- '* mand of the Militia, fent an Order to all the Captains, requiring them to call their Men under Arms, and to acquaint them, that in Cafe they would not in every Town agree among themfelves to appoint Readers, and to pafs the Sab- bath in the beft Manner they could, till fuch Times as they could be better pro- vided i that the Captains fhould every Sun-* day call their Companies under Arms, and fpend the Day in- Ejcercife j whereupon it was unanimoufly agreed on thro* the County, to make Choice of Readers j which they accordingly did, and con^ " tinned in thofe Methods for fome Time'*. This Defcription given by that worthy Perfon, who proved afterwards highly in- ftrumental in fettling Religion, both here and in ,^e Neighbouring Countries, was confirmed by mjs^y Accounts from other Hands. (C « C( cc cc cc cc cc cc cc C( cc ^■.* r.^.. The Reader will, in the Sequel of this Piece, have the Pleafure to fee the Face of Things in this Colony exceedingly changed for the Better ; and that fmce the Society have fent M^ffipn^^^^^ hither, the Inha-. bitants -f'QfH iJVt.'^ i 1 ta State (f thiCokmks^iSk ^^ bitAttts have thrown off all their former Rudenefs, and become a religiotis, fober, and polite People, and as Traders to New^ Tork affure us, refemble the Englijh very much, in their open Behaviour, and frank Sincerity of Spirit. ^ . ; 7. The next Colony is New-England^r^^^ state of ^Imoft deferving that noble Name, fo Nm-E»gUnd. mightily hath it encreafed, and, from a fmall Settlement at fir^, is now become a very populous and flouriihing Govern- ment. The Capital City Bofton, is a Plac€f of great Trade and Wealth, and by much the largeft of any in the Englijh Empire in America^ and not exceeded but by feW Cities, perhaps two or three, ifn all the Ameriean World. It is foreign to the Purpofe of this Treatife to defcribe its ancient Divifion into four great Diftridlg or Governments; the whole Country, New-England^ extends above 400 Miles on the Sca-Coaft, and near 200 Miles into the main Land Weftnvard in fomc Places. This Colony was firft fettled in the Year 1620, by Proteftant Diflenters of many Denominations, but chiefly Inde- pendents, BrowfHfis, 2ind Presbyterians, They did at their firft Settling contend with, and by their great Conftancy, at laft furmount D 2 ex- 3^ Enquiries into thei Religious exceeding Difficulties ; and have thro' their Induftry raifed a plentiful and delightful Country out of a barren and wafte Wil- dernefs : It ought to be owned to the juft Honour of this People, that the firft Set- tlers who left their Native Country Eng^ land, appear to have done it, out of a true Principle of Confcience, however erroneous. As foon as they had fixed the Civil Ma- giftracy, they did eftablifli a Publick Wor- fhip of G o D ; and fuitable to this prudent as well as Religious Procedure, the Co- lony throve apace, and hath now far out- ftripped all the others. But when the In- dependents found themfelves fixed in Power, they began to exadt a rigid Conformity to their manner of Worfhip. Men of all Perfuafions but their own, were flyled op- probrioully Sectaries, and tho* they had de- clared at firft for Moderation, and a general Liberty of Confcience, they notwithftanding baniftied and drove out of the Country, the fakers, the Antinomian and FamiliJricaiF^ir- ties. However, there are many Circumftan- ces vdiich alleviate and foften fome Particu- lars, which might feem rigorous in their Ad- miniftration. New-England was at the Be- ginning harrafTed with various Sedaries, who, under the Umbrage of Liberty of Confcience, took a great Licentioufnefs in all 1^ '*^^ State of the Colonics. all Religious and Civil Matters. I fhall men- tion a few of the chief, from their own Hiftoriansj " * ThtAntinomians^ who deny the Moral Law of G o d, to be the Rule of Christ to walk by in the Obedi- ence of Faith. The Famtlijh, who re- jedt the fure written Word of God, and teach Men to depend upon new and rare Revelations for the Knowledge of God's eledting Love towards them. The Conformitants or Formalijis^ who bring in a Form of Worfhip of their own, and join it with the Worfhip God hath appointed in his Word. The See^ kersy who deny all manner of Worfhip and all the Ordinances of Jesus Christ, affirming them to be quite lofl, and not " to be attained till new Apoflles come ; befides thefe, there were ArrianSy Ar- minianSy fakers ;" with thefe New- England fwarmed, and their own befl Wri- ters give us a very melancholy Account of their Enthufiaflick Behaviour. 31 « <( {( (( C( (C (C (( (( <( «( (C « « C( (( But the mofl impudent Sed;arills, a Sed: heard of in no other Part of the World, were the * Gortonijlsy fo named from their vile Ringleader, one Gortofiy who et up to live in a more brutal Manner than the wild hidian Savages ; in Defiance D 3 and * Hifl.ofl^e^Q-'gnglancli printed 1654. p. 24.. * vid. ib. p. 185. 38 Enquiries into the Religious ^ and Contempt of any Means for inftru^ing themfelves in the Knowledge of Go d> and without any Civil Government to reftrain them in common humanity and Decency. This Blafphemous Fellow had his Followers, and was with pifficuUy fupprefled by the Civil Power, in Governor Dudlfs Time, in the Year 1643. Yet tho' the Civil Ma- gillrate could flop the Progrefs of this Iniquity, fo far as to prevent its being an allowed and tolerated Fa(5tion or Party ; yet ftill, down to this Day, there hath con- tinued a Succeffion of People, who have not been afhamed to own and maintain his impious Tenets, CQ^pnionly called now Gor/o«/^« Principles. 8. After thefe Sectaries had rofe and fallen, another Sort of People appeared, pro- fefling themfelves Members of the Church of Engli^ncl^ Thefe too were looked up- on as Sectaries, with what Degree of Mo- defty or Truth the Reader muft judge. It is true indeed, at the fettling of the Country, as hath been before obferved, Jndependants were the firft Planters, who removed from Englandy from what they thought Perfecution ; but fince that Time, great Numbers of People, Members of the Church of Englt^nd^ have at different Times I i fettled »v. t State of the Colonies, - 3^ fettled there, who thought themfelvcs furely cntkuled, by the very New-England Charter, to a Liberty of Confcience, in the worfhipping of God after their own Way. Yet the Independents (it feems) were not of this Sentiment, but aded as an Efta- blifliment. The Members of the Church of England met with Obftrudtions in fetting up that Form of Wor(hip, and therefore a great Number of the Inhabitants of Bojlon^ got an humble Petition to be laid before His Majefty, King CHARLES the Second, by Dr. Com ft on, then Bifhop o£ Lon- don; praying that they might be allowed to build a Church at Bojlon, and to perform Divine Worfhip according to the Church of England. This Petition was granted, a Church was foon after built, and fre- quented by a numerous Congregation j upon this Occafion, the Members of the Church of E?igland in many other Towns in New England, declared their Defire of the like Advantage of wor (hipping God after that Way, wrote very zealous Letters to Bifhop Compton for Minifters j and now it appeared they were a very confiderable Body of People. 9. Newfoundland, is the next and moft ^'^^^^^^^^ Northern Colony of the Englijhy lying bc-/^j,^.'^*"" D 4 twe n .'a^< Enquiries into the Religious twcen 46 and 53 Degrees of Northern Latitude, it is a large Ifland, as big as Ire-^ land. The firft Settlement was made here in the Year 16 10. The Englijh frequent this Ifland chiefly for the Cod Fifliery on the Sand Banks, not for the Improvement of the Soil of the Country, which is faid to be worth little ; and therefore they have not built any Towns, but made only Settle- ments, which they chofe to call Harbours. However, there is one Place which may deferve the Name of a Town, namely, St. yobn\ fituate commodioufly within the Neck of an Harbour. The Houfes were built on the Northern Shore, and every Family had a Sort of Wharf to dry his Fifh on. There was a handfome Church built here, before the French in 1705, burntthis Town and the Church. After the Englijh had again drove out the French^ they built another fmall Church and Houfes for themfelves round the Fort, for their greater Security. Tho* the confl:ant Inhabitants in this Place are but few, yet ia Fifliing Seafons great Number of En- glijh repair thither for catching Cod, fome Years there have been 500 Sail of Ships laden with Cod. There are computed to be here about 5 or 6 Settlements, con- taining in all, about 500 Families conftantly iiji'w re- a- State of the Colomes^^A rcfiding on the Ifland. The People are poor, and unable to fupport a Minifter, and at the Time this Corporation was eflablifhed had none : Therefore that the whole Ifland, all the Settlers, and many Thou- fands of occafional Inhabitants, might not be deftitute, of having the Publick Wor- fliip of God celebrated, the Society fent the Reverend Mr. j^tfr^y^« thither, allowed him an Annual Salary for feveral Years, and ma near « [uifite. (C thcote) <( vhich. c< 1, and tt mmu- (« about C( fre- «f ' more -i;A-i >; TZ'^ !P^^^ in the Colonies very d^trous (fMinifters of the Church of England : 'Requejls from Congregations of people in each Colony. .. ; , \-^j -J-: ,. TheDifpo- j, fition of the Colonies. T H E Governors of feveral Co- lonies, and other Gentlemen of Character abroad, and Merchants here in Londoriy having given fuch a par- ticular Defcription of the Religious State of the Plantations j the Society found it was high Time, to enter upon the good Work. They were pleafed to fee, that as the People were plainly in great Want of a Chriftian Miniftry, fo they fliewed alfo a very earneft Defire of being affifted with fuch. For after it was known pub- lickly in the Plantations, that this Society was eredted, and that they intended to fend Miniflers to fuch Places as fhould de- fii-e .thcjnli J > efpecially, after the Reverend Mr. Keith and Mr. T^alhot^ who had been fent Travelling Preachers thro' all the Co- lonies ■J'lJ v^ from the Colonie^.^^ '^\ i^j Ionics of the Continent, had finifhcd their Miffion ; the People feemed to awake from the Lethargy they had fo long laid under, great Numbers of the Inhabitants, of various Humours, and different Tenets in Religion, began to contend with great Zeal which (hould be firft fupplyed with Minifters of the Church of England, and wrote very earneft Letters to the Society. This was a Strife very agreeable to the Society, and now they promifed them- felves, their Labour would not be in vain, nor their honourable Benefadtors Charity, like Water fpilt upon the Ground. They thought any further Delay now would be inexcufable, after the People had prefled fo earneftly for their Affiftance. Indeed, The Society, thro* the whole The People Management of the Truft, have been chur°c"hoffi»- fo far from adting with an overbufy ZeaU^''^''^*^*' of obtruding the Church of England Worfliip upon any Sort of People abroad, that they have always this unplealing Re- fledion ; that they have not been able to give any Affiftance to great Numbers of People, who have in very moving Terms, with a true Chriftian Spirit requefted it . and whom they knew to ftand very much in Want of it. There remain upon their Books 4< Kequifiifor Mtffiot^ries :. . Books Entries of hufnerous Petitions from Congregations of fobcr and well-difpofed People graying for Miniilers^ which %o their own great Difconafort, they have been forced to pafs by, on Account of the Smallnefs of their Fund ^ and not one In^* fiance of a Minifter fettled in any Place, where many of the Inhabitants did not ear-> neflly defire it, and to the utmofl of their Power contribute towards his Sup- port. That the Publick may be fully ac- quainted with this Difpofition in the Co- lonies, it will be proper here, to give the Reader, the Peoples Requefls to the So- ciety in their own Words; to let the People fpeak for themfclves, that the World may judge, whether this Chriftian Work was not as neceflary, as furely it is . f.'- ' • .,■/♦•• „ ■ ' ' ■• • - ' ' ' ':^'T HE Memorials and Petitions of the Governors and Congregations of Peo- MSfsfJmP^«> ^^^^ ^ ^^^ down next, in the fame south -Care/t- Order f the State of the Colonies Was de- "^' fcribed, beginning with South-Carolina, the moft Southern Colony. , ^ Al m-x^-^^m^-- ^ lli^ me? rll ■ft 2. T H E firfl Memorial from South^Carth Una, was from the Gorem^tan* and Council : . of i from the Colonies. of Carolina, dated at the Council-Board, at CharleS'l'own^ figned by the Governor Sir Nathaniel Johnfon^ and the Members of the Council in 1702, it runs thus : ** We could " not omit this Opportunity of teftifying the grateful Senfe we have of your mofl noble and Chriflian Charity to our poor Infant Church in this Province, exprefled by the generous Encou-age- ment you have been pleafed to ^jve to thofe, who are now coming Miflionaries, the Account of which we have juft now received, by the worthy Mifiionary, and our defer ving Friend and Minifter, Mr, " I'homaSy who, to our great Satisfadtion, is now arrived. The extraordinary Hurry we are in, occafioned by the late Invafion, attempted by the French and Spaniards, from whom God hath mi- raculoufly delivered us, hath prevented our receiving a particular Account from Mr. Thomas of your Bounty j and alfb hath not given us Leifure to view your " Miflionaries Inftrudions, either in re- gard of what relates to them or to our lelves: But we (hall take fpeedy Care to give them all due Encouragement, and the Venerable Society the utmoft Satisfaction. There is nothing fo dear 47 (C « <( <( When we have placed *' your Miffionaries in their feveral Pa- " rifties according to your Diredions, and ** received from them an Account of your *' noble Benefaction of Books for each " Parifh, we (hall then write more par- " ticular and full: In the mean Time, " we beg of your Honourable Society to ** accept of our hearty Gratitude, and to " be aflured of our fincere Endeavour, to "concur with them in their moft noble " Defign of Propagating Chrift's holy ** Religion." Mr. Thomas was obliged up- on neceifary Affairs to come to England in 1705, and foon after returned to Carolina, The (C ound « 1 Li. fC their C( I In. 1 «c 722. I ic oor 1 cc Dvi- I . ^ '/ ^> ^V-^ V '^ '/ Photographic Sdences Corporation ^^ V qv 4(^ '^^''^^ 23 WIST MAIN STRUT WEBSTER, N.Y. 14S80 (716)873-4503 ^o Rnquefts fir A£ffimarie$ cc €i CC CC CC •c CC CC * 8. The Inhabitants of Marblehead, in the Year 1714, fent the following Petition to the Society, which Ipeaks the hearty Difpofition of the People, when they fet up the Church of England Worfhip; And this, upon the Proof of many Years Experience, appears plainly to have been no fudden Heat or Start of Zeal, but a well-grounded Senfe of the Excellency of our Church, fince they have con* tinued in the fame Spirit ever fince. They exprefs themfelves thus to the Society : " Whereas your Petitioners, " out «3 ^4 Kt^tttfis fir Mi§B»ariet cc (i (C cc c< » ' *K - -■ 7k' . Ax CHAP. <- i^/ut,- -»*Jt I 66 The TefiimtmaU required CHAP. IV. ( .■-■ J%e TeJUmcnials required hy the Society from the Mifftonaries they fend abroad. The Rules they give them for their ConduU. The Re'verend Mr. Keith md Mr. Talbot fent T'ravelling Trea- cher s thro' fe'veral Colonies. K. TheTeftimo- j, nials required from theMif- iionaries. TH E next Labour of the So- ciety, was to enquire for Per- fons in Holy Orders, duly qua- lified, who would undertake the Miflion: For they were eafily aware, that their Miffionaries would meet with Difficulties in the Difcharge of their Minifterial Of- fice; and tho* there were many well in- clined People in thofe Parts, there were alfo many Gainfayers; and that there- fore all the Means of a watchful and pru- dent Conduct, were neccffary to make their Labours fuccefsful. The Society agreed there- therefore on the 15* of February in 1702, that all the Bifhops of the Realm, who were Members of their Body, (hould be earneflly defired to recommend it to their Archdeacons, and their Officials, to caufe publick Notice to be given in their next Archidiaconal Vilitation 5 that fuch Cler- gymen, as fhould have a Mind to be cm- ployed in this Apoflolical Work, and could bring fufficient Teflihionials, according to a Form prefcribed; might give in their Names to their refpedtive Bifliops, or to their Archdeacons, to be communicated by them to this Corporation : Upon which the Society would confult with the Lord Bifliop of London, in order to the fending them to fuch Places as had moil Need, and where they might therefore, by G o d's Afliftance and Bleffing, do moft Good. This Relblmioh of theirs, the Society printed and publiftiedj entituling it their Requefl concerning fit Mhdfters to be fent abroad ; and do in the M ginning of it, thus exprefs themfelves to the World. The faid Society do requeft, and ear- neftly befeech all Perfons concerned, " that they recommend no Man out of ** Favour or AfFedtion, or any other " worldly Confideration j but with a iin- C( F 3 pofe to h The Tefiimmi^ refmred pofe them, with a Spirit of Meeknefs and Gentlenefs only. 3. The Society advife their Miifionaries not to decline any fair Opportunity of preaching to any Number of People as may be occaiionally met together from remote and diflant Parts, tho' it may not be on a Sunday or Holyday, That the chief Subjeds of their Sermons (hould be the fundamental Dodrines of Chriftianity, and the Duties of a fober, righteous, and godly Life, as refulting from fuch Dodrines. That they fhould carefully inftrudt the People concerning the Nature and Ufe of the Sacraments of Baptifm and the Lord's Supper, as being the peculiar Infli- tutiofts of C H R I s T, Pledges of Communion with him, and Means inftituted of de- riving Grace from him : That they (hould duly coniider the Quali£cations of fuch grown Perfons to whom they (hall ad- minifter Baptifm, as alfo of thofe whom they admk to the Lord's Supper, accord- ing to the Diredlions of the Kubrick in our Liturgy : That they take a fpecial Care to lay a good Foundation for all their other Miniftrations, by Catechizing thofe under their Care, whether Children firmH the AdS^fimari0f. or other ignorant Perfons, and explain the Catechifm to them in the moft familiar Manner : That they (hould be diligent to fhew to Heathens and Infidels, the Ne* cefTity of a Revelation, and the Troth of the Chriflian, contained in the holy Scri- ptures. Laftly^ The Society direct their Miflionaries to vifit frequently their Pa- rifhioners ; and if their Pariihes are of a large Extent, that rhey (hould, at con- venient Opportunities, officiate in different Parts of them, that fo all the Inhabitants, by Turns, might more commodioufly partake of their Miniftrations. ,- yjs v .,. I'l . , • » 1 1 71 i> 4. These are the Inflrudions more pe- culiarly relating to their Parochial Care: With Regard to the Corporation, theMiffio- Jiaries are required to keep a conilant Cor- refpondence with the Society by their Secretary j and to fend over every fix Months, an Account of the State of their refpedtive Parifhes 5 that fo the Corporation may, from Time to Time, fee the Progrefs they make in the good Work i and if any DifHculties fhould arife, confider how they may apply proper Remedies. . .^lisvi^ ;n(d "i.i-u ui:')'-" I'^r'l,: --s,- F4 nl'vi^U '■ K* i •}2 The Tefiimonials required Encourage- J- After mentioning the more pccu- ments given liar Rules thc Society give their Miflio- 2^icf^'°' naries for guiding their own Condua:; it will not be unfeafonable to intimate a Particular or two, done by the Society, for the Encouragement of their Miflionaries, upon their engaging to go abroad. They advance them half a Year's Salary upon their fetting out, and in Cafe of Mortality, pay their Executors or Affigns half a Year's Salary more. If the Society (hould think it necefTary to difmifs any Miflio- nary, provided it be not on Account of any Mifaemeanor, they allow him a Year's Salary after his Difmiflion is agreed on at thc Board. They allow alio every Miflionary at his going abroad. Ten Pounds Worth of Books for a Library, if there is not fuch a Library already fettled in the Place to which he is appointed. They alfo write with him, a Letter of Recom- mendation to the Governour of the Co- lony, and to the People of the Parifh where he goes, to intreat the Governor's Favour and Protection, and to befpeak thc People's Refpedt and Kindnefs to him ; and allow him Five Pounds Worth of fmall Tradts, to diftribute among thc poorer People, as he fhall judge moft con-! Jtm tSe Mijjionariesl convenient. Lajily^ When their Miffio- naries have been prefled with very di- flrefiing Circumflances, on Occafion of any publick Calamity, as War with the Indians, or the like ; they have prefented them with very confiderable Gratuities, beyond their Salaries, for their due Sup- port 5 nay, when fome of their Miffio- naries, who have behaved themfelves wor- thily, died, and left Wife or Children quite unprovided for, the Society have alfo made handfome Priefents to the Widows *!.. ' I I or Orphans. ' 6. Having thus given a Defcription of the Religious State of the Colonies, and briefly mentioned fome of the principal Rules of the Society, in the Choice of their Miilionaries ; it follows in the next Place, to lay before the Reader an Account of the Labours and Succefs of the Miilio- naries in the feveral Colonies where they were fent. • 't^i4 r,ih '1 ... V .'. & 7. But here it muft be obferved to the Reader, that the Society, before they pro- ceeded to appoint Miilionaries to parti- cular Places, refolved to fend a Travelling Miflionary or Preacher, who ihould travel over, and Preach in the feveral Govern- ments 73 f 74 ^^ RfverenJA^. Keith ments on the Continent of the Britijh America i by which Means they hoped they (hould awaken the People into a Senfe of the Duties of Religion. For this purpofe, they fent the Reverend Mr. George Keithy rcndMrj^iS^^^ had formerly reiidcd in Penfyhania^ fent travelling an itinerant Miflionary thro* the Conti- Preachcr. ^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^-^^j^ North- America, with an Allowance of 200/. a Year. He fet Sail from England on the 24* oi April in 1702, and arrived at Bojion in New-England, on the 11*^ of y««^ following. He performed his Miffion in two Years, and returned to England, and publiflied a full Account of his labours there, of which I fhall give the Reader here a very fhort Summary. H £ travelled over, andpreach'd in all the A Summary Governments and Dominions belonging to Labours."' * the Crown of England, betwixt North-Ca- rolina s^ndPifcataway Kiver mNew-England incluiively, being ten diftind: Governments > ''^ and extending in Length above 800 Miles. During the whole Time of. his Million, he was very afliduous; he Preached commonly twice on Sundays^ befides on Week-days, and the Sermons were pro- perly adapted to the Hearers, before whom they were delivered. He had generally good Succefs where he preached, the Peo- ple pljB in nuny Places, were well difpoied for receiving of, the Gofpel, and feetued to hear the Word with great Reverence,, Humility aod Zeal ; They joined with him devoutly in the Liturgy, and all publick Prayers, and the Adminiflration of the Sacrament, and earnellly deiired him to prefent their RequefVs to the Society, to have Minifters fent among them. But he was efpecially fuccefsful in hit Preach- ing, and private and publick Conferences, in feveral Places in Fenfylvania, the two Jerjes, Oyjierbay in Long-IJlandj and at NeW'Tork^ where he laboured mod, and continued the longeft Time. In the two firfl of thefe Places a great Number of feparatift fakers or Keithiam^ who had feparated from the Body of Quakers m the Years 1691 and 1692, had quite relin- quifhed ^aker Principles, and joined themfelves to the Church of England Members at Philadelphia ; where the Reve- rend Mr. EvanSy who had been fent thither by the Bilhop of Londortyhsid now a very nu- merous Congregation. Thefe People, when they faw Mr. Keith, who had been the chief Inflrument and Occafion of ^eir forfaking the ^aker Errors, coming agaia among them, and in the Charadler of a Minifter of the Church of England^ they ex- 75 ^6 The Reverend Mr. Keith exprelTed great Joy and Satisfadion to hear him preach what tended to their farther Confirmation in the Chriflian Faith. Mr. Evans, the Minifter of Phi- ladelphia, acquainted him, he had bap- tized above 500 Men, Women, and Chil- dren fakers, in Penfylvania and Weft Jerfey, And Mr. Keith, during his Con- tinuance in thofe Parts, together with the Reverend Mr. l^albot, who accompanied him as his AfTociate in his Labours, bap- ' tized at leaft 200 in Penfylvania, and Weft SLiidEaft yerfey, New-Tor k, and in fome Pla- ces on Long'Iftand, efpecially Oyfter-Bay. i:,i The Reverend Mr. John falifot hap- pened to be Chaplain to the Ship the Centurion, in which Mr. Keith went over to America, together with Governour Dud- ley and Colonel Morris 5 and being very much affedted with the good Undertaking which Mr. Keith was engaged to carry on, he offered to go with him as his AfTociate in his Travels, and was accepted j feveral Ferfons of Worth, tranfmitted to the So- ciety a fair Charader of him, upon which he was fupported with a Salary, and Mr. Keith acquainted the Society, that he was very ufeful to him in his Labours, very dili^ on. Jent Tran)elling Treacher. 77 diligent and very zealous in difcharging all the Minifterial Duties. There were now fettled in Penjyhania three Church of England Congregations, which had convenient Churches, at Pbila- delphiay Chejier, and Oxford. The Reve- verend Mr. Evans, Minifter of Philadelphia, preached occafionally at Chejler, and the Reverend Mr. Rudman, a Swedijh Miflio- nary, officiated at Oxford, At Philadelphia, they had publick Prayers not only on Sun- days, but alfo on Wednefdays and Fridays, and by a mean Computation there was an Audience of 500 Pcrfons from the Town and Country near Philadelphia, and more on great Feftivals. At the Church at Chejler, there aflembled commonly 200 Perfons, and at Oxford above 150. Thefe Churches are within 30 Miles Diftance of ' each other, and were frequented by a con- fiderable Number of late Converts to the Church from ^akerifm, and were Perfons of good Note for their Chriftian Conver- fation, Devotion and Zeal. There did ufually affemble between 2 and 300 Perfons, at Burlington in Weji^ J^^f^y about 20 Miles diftant from Philadelphia, lying on the North Side oiDelawar River, Mr. . 78 The Reverend Mr. Kdth Mr. Keitb and Mr. falbot laboured much among them, and with good Succcfs, the Con- gregation which aflembled there, became a re- ligious People,and well afFedted totheChurch of England^ tho* formerly the greater Part of them were a loofe Sort of Perfons, re- gardlefs of all Religion. Several of thefe defir'd Baptifm, and had alfo their Children baptized by Mr. Keith and Mr. I'alboty or by Mr. Evans before their Arrival, and had lately built a Church, and called it St. Ann\, Mr. Keith laboured alfo much among the other Sort of fakers called Foxiansy went to their Meetings, and offered with all manner of good Friendfhip to fpeak there, in lo feveral Places; at three mNew-Eng- landy at one in Rhode-IJland, at Flujhing in Long-Ijland^ at Shrewsbury in Eaji Jerfeyy at Burlington in Weji Jerfey^ at Philadelphia^ at Oxford in Penjylvania, and at Herring- Creek in Maryland ; but he found them ob- ftinately attached to their own Notions, and inftead of fhewing any Expreffions of Kind- nefs, ufcd m ch reviling Language towards him. I N divers Parts of New-England, he found not only many People well affedted to the Church, who had no Church of England Mini- ftnt Travellif^ Treacher. Minifters, but alfo fevcral New-England Minifters defirous of Epifcopal Ordination, and ready to embrace the Church-Worfhip. Some of whom both hofpitably entertained Mr. Kekb and Mr. falbot in their Houfes, and requefted them to preach in their Con- gregations, which they did, and received great Thanks both from the Minifters and from the People. v Mr. Keithy during his Abode in thefe Countries, printed alfo feveral Sermons and Trads, in Anfwer to Books of fakers and others, which were generally approved of, and feemed to have been very ufeful to- wards removing fome Prejudices againft the Church of England, M R. Keithy in the Conclulion of his Nar- rative, reprefented to the Society, the Want of a great Number of Minifters for a Peo- ple difperfed over fuch large Countries; and affured them that feveral Congregations in many Towns, had engaged him to prefent their humble Requefts to the Society, to fend Minifters to them. The Chief of thefe were Amhoy^ Shrewsbury^ Freehold and E- lizabeth'7'own in Eaji Jerfey, Maidenhead and Cohanfy in Weft Jerfey -, Narraganfett, Swanfey^ Littk-Compton, or Seconet in New- England 'f 19 riv' |o Ti^e Reverend Mr. Keiths && England ; Rbode-IJlandy and Shrewsbury by Cbejier River in Maryland, and Newcaftle by Delaware River in Penfyhania, where they were building a Church when he came away. And laftly, the People of Princefs Ann's ' County in the 5o«/i& Parts of Virginia, which is 150 Miles in Length, and had not one Minifter 5 tho' there were a great many People zealoufly difpofed to the Church of England Vfoxihi^, 8. This is the Sum of Mr. Keith* s Nar- rative ; and from this, and the former Accounts tranlmitted by many other Hands, the Society thought they had fufficient Light given them where to fend Miflio- naries, which they proceded to do, as from the following Sedtions will appear. -«.C'v t* -* ■ ;1 , '• CHAP. by by ray. N's uch one kany of ^' r i :# »-' \ ,isr™ '■^^"r :?;;^/sef«^^:^.. «• r «-■'?. s :s..- ••<> ,1" r/ ,.'# ;^,:A ■V .>yJB»' t \' « j^^*j;:.,,Lj«^«K^s- ■i»«^ -''"«»*f ^^-v. .^MC.%^6^-. !«'' t K.' WwB Ml'-- 4 OlAynmeJfeSfttli^-^ >^ Vr<- a. I I A *^^i *J^ 4«_ ^z. Zmry I ;rfrt \u^'^'*'S ^""d }^3 T \ ^^ ChtcKtrtna.'' .Vi«^ Clylrfiiift \Cr. ^. £%.% ' ^ v* % ^ / / / / \ \ \ / \ m \ \ L I \ \ 1 \ A. .Vv*^ Church '%'ymf^ Jsinxes Jiflwith thi Trtneh Jtttit .-•' A 1**^ jJ^LsPafilK . ^ ^^ mint At- Ofati^e ..••" vTa^t*'* -^W. t* * *^4 ' «^ rtr ."^''^ tee V^^ >^.'^ *?:: > Qgfl, V [ Jamcj W^iureh \. ^ • S*. Tlioma J Pari i K 5TIamei.$'\a«i'' .r i *. Church i^^/-^ \^*>^'^ tJI^ - u> ^i/h>w:B. Ena^lUhl Milts \ \ / ^^ ' I \ \ ^ A^ ap afv most Inipro-vctl Part of CjLJEtOI#IJSrji. i Atrirh Chtirehtj •'.• Xnattsh S^ttUtnintJ A^ Xnaian S-efHitntntj 77 iS 75 V. i.if<.»JJ|., '%. Mil a w ■mK ■ 'tt ■ .>.■-*.*-*■- •V*,. ,-i ^^tHKtdiii^Sk^' » i 1 s ■ of ^ 1 they ere£ JT^^I^- 81 ♦♦»♦»»♦»♦»♦»♦♦»»♦»♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦» •# !^ .f\ CHAP. V. Miffionaries fent to South-Carolina : The / T laces to wbicb they were appointed j / their Labours andSuccefs. A Warrai^ fed by the Yammofees and other Indians,' againft fi&^Englifli. The Tranquillity rf this Province happily reftored : Thir- teen Churches and Four Chapels of Eafe Suilt : Salaries fettled on the Clergy : Schools opened. TH E Province of South-Carolina (hewed fo earneft a Defire of ^ . having Minifters of the Church of Englandy upon the firft Information they received of this Corporation being ere£ted, that the Society refolved very early to fend Miflionaries to this Colony, that fo good a Difpofition of the People * might be aflifted as foon as poflible. Ac- cordingly in June 1702, the Reverend Mr, rend Mr. T^^o- Samuel I'hojnas 'W2iS fent thither. The So-f^^ ^'="!.^T'j . 1 1 1 1 /- n nonary,Iettlea ciety defigned he mould have nrit attempted at Gooftnek the Converfion of the Fammofee Indiansy but the Governor Sir 'Nathaniel Jcbnfon, Q and . I ^ 82 Mijjionaries fent and feveral other Gentlemen there, judg- ing it not to be a proper Seafon to enter upon this Work, he did not engage in that Miffion ; but after fome fmall Continuance V in the Governor's Family, he was ap- pointed by Sir Nathaniel Johnjon^ to the V Cure of the Pepple fettlpd on the three Branches of C<7(?^^r River, 15 Miles 4iftant from each other; but to xm^Q Goofcreek the chief Place of his Refidence. Goof- creek was one of the largeft and paoft popu- lous' Count|"y Towns, and fettled by £«- glifi F^-milies entirely well afFedted to the Church of England ^ and who formerly had for fome Time the Reverend Mr. Corbin for their Minifter. The Parifli is 20 Miles in Length, and from 8 to 14 in Breadth ; Mr. Hhomas difcharged his Mini- flerial Office with very good Succefs, he acquainted the Society, that tho* his Com- municants at firft were but 5, they foon increafed to 32 ; that he had taken much Pains alfo in inftrudling the Negroes^ and learned 20 of them to read. But in Odio- ber ijoby this worthy Miffionary died, (as feveral Gentlemen of the Country wrote Word) very much lamented for his found Dodtrine, exemplary Life, and Induftry ; after having laid a sjood Foundation for his hisi ha( for his ro South-Carolina. 83 his Succeflbrs, to carry on the Work he had begun. The Society appointed the Reverend He dies; Dr. Dr. Le Jeau to fucceed him. Upon his^^ ^dtof*^ Arrival in the Country in 1706, he ac-ceedhim. quainted them, he had met with an ex- traordinary kind Reception from his Ex- cellency the Governour and the Chief Ju- ftice, and had received many Tokens of great Civility and Goodnels from feveral worthy Perfons. The People were then very bufie in providing all Materials for fitting up the Church and Parfonage Houfe, which they foon after compleated. He tranfmitted to the Society an Account of the State of his Parifli and other neigh- bouring Settlements, wherein he repre- fcnted very earneftly, that it was the greateft Pity imaginable, to fee how many various Opinions had been fpread there, by a Multitude of Teachers and Ex- pounders of all Sorts and Perfwalions ; and yet he could find very few, that un- derftood Chriilianity, even as to the effen- tial Parts of it ; yet the Parents and Ma- ilers were indued with much good Will, and a ready Difpofition, to have their Children and Servants taught the Chri- ftian Religion, Pie was not only very G 2 dili- /.'( i>;^-*; *i? 84 ^Miffionaries fent diligent in his proper Cure at Goofcreek\ but alfo afTifted in other Places, where a Minifter was wanting; the Church at Charks'Town being fome time after his Arrival vacant, he ufed to preach once a Month there, where at Eafter he had but 24 Communicants, tho' there were above 500 Perfons of Age in the Place. He fometimes vifited the French Settlement in Orange Quarter, then entirely deflitute dothgreatSer-of a Minifter, and adminiftred the Sacra- •^n*^feverarPa- "^^^^^ among them. This Settlement con- riihes. fifted then of about 32 Families, out of which there were 50 Perfons Communi- cants. His own Parifti had about 100 Families, making up 1000 Perfons, much the greater Number of which were Mem- bers of the Church of England. He per- formed all parts of his Minifterial Duty with great Diligence. The firft Year of ' his MilTion, he Baptized 2 1 Children, the fecond 19, and the Number of the Com- municants increafed to 35. He inftruded and baptized many Negroes and Indian Slaves i and whereas he found feveral Pa- rents had negleded to have their Children Baptized, becaufe they paid fome Duties to the Minifter, he acquainted them he defired nothing, and prevailed upon a con- fiderable Number of them to bring their Chil- to South-Carolina. 85 Children for Baptifm ; and by his private as well as publick Difcourfcs, perfwadcd feve- ral Perfons of a grown Age, to attend him to be inftrudted in the elTential Dodtrines of Chriftianity, in order for receiving Baptifm. He ufed frequently on Week-days to Ca- techize the younger People at his Houfe, as finding nothing conduced more towards promoting the Gofpel, than -this private Inftrudion of the Youth. The Do6tor was not only very laborious in his Fundtion, but by God's Blefling very fuccefsful, and hap- py in gaining the AfFedions of his People. Soon after his being fixed among them, they made a voluntary Subfcription of 60/. a Year Carolina Money for him. The Church they firfl built became too fmall for the growing Number of his Pariftiioners, and they erected a beautiful Brick Edifice. A Parfonage Houfe was built by fome pub-AnewChurch lick Benefadions, which happening to be^J^^^^^^f*^* fome Time after unfortunately deftroyed by Fire (all but the Brick-work) the cha- ritable Country beftcwed a very confi- derable Sum for its Repair. Captain Schenckingh^ a worthy Gentleman of the Parifh, gave 100 Acres of good Glebe Land to the Church for ever. The Dodor, after this, acquainted the Society, that his Pa- rifhioners were much improved, and be- G 3 come B6 Miffionaries fent ^ come of a very fober, civil, and edifying Behaviour, and that he had a full and conftant Appearance at Church ; the* there remained fome few Atheiftical Perfons and Scoffers at all Revelation. His Congre- gation grew ftill more numerous, the Com- municants increafed, and in 1714, they arofe to 70 Englijh, and 8 Negroes, In He dies. the Year 17 17, Dr, Le J eau dkd ', very much lamented by his own Parifhioners, and regretted by every one, who knew how ufeful and induftrious he had been in pro- moting the Gofpel in thofe Parts. In the Year 1720, the Society fent the Reve- rend Mr. Merry a Miflionary into Caro- lina, and the Church of Goo/creek being then vacant, the Parifhioners requefled him to come and refide among them, which he did for fome time, but flayed not long, and returned again to England. The So- ciety, upon the Requeft of the Inhabitants of GooJ'creek, foon after appointed another The Reve- Miffionary, the Reverend Mr. Ludlam ; rend Mr. z,«^- j^g arrived there in the Year 1724, and lam appoint- i • -a >r« /r- • / « ' cd Miffionary began his Miffion with great Diligence. There were in his Pari{h a large Number o&.NegroeSy Natives of the Place, who iinderilood Englip well, he took good Pains to inftrudt feveral of thefe in the Principles of the Chriflian Religion, and after- here. til) all to South-Carolina- 87 afterwards admitted them to Baptifm. He faid if the Mailers of them would hear- tily concur to forward fo good a Work, all thofe who have been born in the Country, might without much Difficulty be in- ftrudted and received into the Church. Mr. Ludlam continued his Labours among the Negroes, and every Year taught and baptized feveral of them ; in one Year, eleven, befides fome Mulattoes. The Englijh of his Parifh were a very fober and well- behaved People, and duly attended Divine Worfhip. Some few, who had 5een of loofer Principles, and negligent of the Or- dinances of the Gofpel, were perfuaded to a due Conformity to the Church, and feveral grown Perfons received Baptifm. ? The People continued regularly to bring their Children to Baptifm, and devoutly frequented the Sacrament. Mr. Ludlam per- fevered in a diligent Difcharge of all the Duties of his Function ; but in OSiober 1728, he died; and in Teftimony of his He behaves Regard to the Society^s goodDefigns, and^^'S* b^- his Refped to the People of his Parifli, ^^eathsallhis bequeathed by his laft Will, all his Eftate, School for real and perfonal, to the Society in truft, Poo'^ChUdren. for EreSiing and Maintaining a School for the InJiruBion of Poor Children of that Parip, His whole Eftate is computed to ^ ■ G 4 amount 88 Miffionaries fent amount to about 2000/. Carolina Money, after Payment of his Debts. v i ThcReverend 2. The Society fent the Reverend Mr. JSn^fMT-^^^^^. Miflionary to C^r(?//«^ in 1707, he Honary to St. arrived there the fame Year; he was not ''" "^ Appointed to any particular Place, but it v^ras left to the Governor and Council to fix him, where they fliould judge he could be moft ufeful. Upon his Arrival there, he met with a very favourable Reception at Cbarles-'l'own, from the Governor and other Gentlemen of the Province. He was foon after fixed in St. John's Parifh, on the Wefiern Branch of Cooper River i it ]S a pleafant and healthful part of the Country, and the Planters there, were ge- nerally good, fober, and teachable People ; but fettled at a great Diflance from each other, in fcattered Plantations. He was the firft Clergyman of the Church of En- gland, that refided there for any conli- derable Time. Upon his Preaching at his firft coming, to a good Number of Church- men, he had feveral Independents, and jinabaptijls who came to hear him, and . behaved themfelves very devoutly and at- tentively, during the whole Time of Di- vine Service. He took a great deal of Pgins in the Difcharge of his Duty, and I to South-Carolina. 89 upon Account of the Diftance between the Settlements, was obUged to ride very often, which was exceeding fatiguing (ef- pecially during the fuhry Seafon in that Country) as well as expenfive to him. The good People were fenfible of this Diffi- culty he underwent in Travelling, and to cafe him as much as they could, did, without his Knowledge, raife am.ong them- felves 25 Pounds Carolina Money ^ and bought a Horfe, and other Accoutrements, ^Ins in^S! and made him a Prefent of them. Upon MUiion, his firft Settling here, the Englijh had no Church to perform Divine Worfhip in, but about 10 French Families had Built them a fmall Church, and their Minifter Mr. I'uilliard offered Mr. Maule the Ufe of his Church, which he accepted, and Preached often there; and fuch of * the French as underflood Englijh^ came to hear him. At other times, he Preached up and down among the Plantations, as the Houfes lay moil convenient for the People to meet at. In the Year 1706, an A6fc' of AlTembly had pafTed there for Building 8 Churches in 8 Parifhes, and 333 Pounds Carolina Money was allotted for each : At length, about the Year 17 10, the Englijh began to Build a Church, and this Sum was expended now in Building one in St. >i6«'s 90 Mijfionaries fent John^s Parifli. All the Outfidc was not finiihed till 171 1. However, Mr. Maule refolved to begin to make Ufe of it, tho* there was no Conveniency of Seats or Pulpit, or other Furniture. Soon after A Church is (7^/^;^^/ Brought oriy a worthy Gentleman and feriQus Chriilian, coming to refide in that Parifh, he very generoufly adorned the Church, made a Communion-Table, rail'd in the Chancel, made a Pulpit, Reading Desk, and fomc Pews ; all with Cedar. This good Man's Labours were at- tended with Succefs, the People regu- larly came to Divine Service, and many frequented the Sacrament ; and the whole Body of them were influenced to lead more orderly and Chriftian Lives. Among other Caufes of their religious Improve- ment he mentions, that the Books which the Society diftributed among the People, by their Miffionaries, had a very good EfFedt; and proved very inftrumental in removing a great many Prejudices out of the Minds of fome, and in making the whole People in general, more inquifitive about their Spiritual Concernment. Particularly, the Common-Prayer-Books which he had difperfed among the People, had influenced many to come to Church ; and Dr. Beve-- ridged Sermon of the Excellency and Ufe- fulnefs fulncj he dii Book! cc «c ho' m the il'd to South-Carolina. fulnefs of the Common-Prayer, which he diftributed with the Common-Praycr- Books, was of great Service. .. .? . i n : r *m9 T H u s he continued diligent in all Parts of his Duty, till the fatal Indian War broke out, in the Year 1715, at which Time all his Pariflbioners were driven The People from their Plantations. In this Calamity Jj^j.''^p^j^°^ he did not forfake them, but retired with the iftdians. them to a Garrifon, whither they fled for Safety -, and continued for above 4 Months to perform all the Offices of his Fiipndtion ; He baptized their Children, vifited their Sick and Wounded, and buried their Dead, preached every Lord's-Day, and read Prayers twice every Day in the Week^ The Duty was much above his Strength, efpecially as performed in a numerous Croud, confined in a fmall Compafs of Ground, and in very fultry Weather too. However he underwent it with Chear- fulnefs, " Confidering (as he expreffes himfelf) that having hitherto lived among them in their Profperity, I could not, in Confcience, defert them in Times " of Danger and Diftrefs, that fo I might " learn them by Example as well as Do- " drine, to fubmit with Chearfulnefs to the Will of God". Thus he perfe- vcred C( Guy^ the Society's Mifliortaryj having aban- doned all their Effects to the Savages: fome few Families fell into their Hands, who were barbaroufly Tortured and Mur- dered. . ■.^- The Indians had divided themfelves in- to two Parties ; one fell upon Port-Royal, the other upon St. Bartholomew's Parifhj about 100 Chriftians fell into their Hands, the reft fled, among which, the Reverend Mr. Os6orn, the Society's Miflionary there. The Women and Children, with fome of the beft of their Effe^s, were convey*d to Charles-T^own \ moft of the Houfes and heavy Goods in the Parifti were burnt or fpoil'd. The Tammofees gave the firft Stroke m this War, but were prefently joined by the Apfellacbee IndjOins, On the N&rth Side of the Province, the Englijh had at firft, fome Hopes in the Faithfulnefs of the Calabaws and Creek Indians, but they foon after declared for the Tammofees, Upon / to SottthCaroUna. 99 Upon News of this rifing, the Governor (the Honourable Charles Craven^Rfqi) with all Expedition, raifed the Forces in Colleton County, and with what Affiftance more could be got prefently, put himfelf at Governor t • TT J J 1- 1 j» rvi « Craven raifea their Head, and marchea directly to the Forces, and Indians, and the Week after Eafter came up i^^^^^K ^l"^ -111 Tammojeelfi' with them, and attached them at the Head dians. of the River Cambahee j and after a fharp Engagement put them to Flight, and flopped all farther Incuriions on that Side. ' I N the mean Time, on the other iSTi^r- thern Side, the Savages made an Inroad as far as a Plantation of Mr. John Herne, diftant 30 Miles from Goo/creek -, and treacheroufly killed that Gentleman, af- ter he had (upon their pretending Peace) prefented them with Provifions. Upon News of this Difafter, a worthy Gentle- man, Captain Thomas Barker, was fent thither with 90 Men on Horfeback 5 but by the 'Treachery of an Indian whom h^ trufted, fell into an Ambufcade, in fome thick Woods, which they muft neceflarily pafs. The Indians fired upon them from behind Trees and Bullies. The Englijh difmounted, and attacked the Savages, and H 2 re- lOO Miffionaries fent repulfed them ; but having loft their brave commanding Officer Mr. Barker, and being themfelves in fome Diforder, made their Retreat. Upon this Advantage, the Indians came farther on towards Goofcreek, at News of which, the whole Parifh of Goo/creek became defer ted, except two fortified Plan- tations i and the Reverend Dr. Le jfeau^ the Society's Miflionary there, fled to Charles-l'o'wn, ; These Northern Indians being a Body of near 400 Men, after attacking a fmall Fort in vain, made Propofals of Peace,, which the Garrifon unwarily hearken- ing tOj^ admitted feveral of them into the Fort, which they furprized and cut to Pieces the Garrifon, confifting of 70 White People and 40 Blacks ; a very few efcaped. After this they advanced farther. Captain C-&/V. but on the 13^^ o£ June, Mr. Cbicken, the ^«/ defeats the Qaptain of the Goofcreek Company, met Northern Jndt' f ,,, a r t*r». and attacked them, and after a long Aaion, defeated them, and fecured the Province on that Side from farther Ravages. f ans. The Society received thefe calamitous Relations fromCarolina with much Concern, both on Account of the Diftrefs of the Inhabitants and of their Miffionaries. They to -Carolina. loi They thought it incumbent on them to do fomething towards the Relief of the latter, who were fent by them to thofe Places. Accordingly a Letter was wrote to all the Miflionaries, acquainting them, how feniible the Society was of the Hard- ships they underwent, and that they had agreed to give half a Years Salary to each of them as a Gratuity, for their prefent Affiftance. That this Bounty might be paid them with all Speed, a Letter was wrote by the fame Conveyance to Colonel Rhety a worthy Gentleman in that Country, defiring him, on the Account of the Society, to pay each of their Miflionaries and School- mafters half a Year's Salary ; and in Cafe the other Clergy of the Colony, who were not Miflionaries, fliould be in great Streights upon Account of this publick Calamity, he fliould alfo pay each of them a Sum, TheSocIe^^ not exceeding 30 Pounds Sterling j which £;^^^ the Society prefented them towards their theCl^gy."* Support i and that he might draw upon their Treafurer for all fuch Sums paid. Colonel Rhef was pleafed very kindly, to pay all the Miflionaries who apply'd to him, the Money the Society had directed 5 and alfo to the Reverend Mr. Lapierre and Mr. Richburgy two French Minifters, who were not employed by the Society, H 3 30 102 Miffonaries fmt 30 Pound each; they were both juft|)rc- paring to quit the Country, on Account ©f their great Want, but were prevented by fo feafonable a Relief thro* the Society's Bounty. 6. Having given the Reader this (hort Relation of the Indian War, which brought fo much Confuiion on the Religious as well as Civil State of this growing Colony ; I (hall now refume the iirft Subject, and continue on the Account of the Labours of the Miflionaries in each Pariih. The Inhabitants of the Parifh of St. Heleriz in Port-Royal Ifland, before mentioned, had been all drove from their Settlements, by the Tammofees j but upon the fupprefling of the Indian Ravages, the People re- turned to thei*' Plantations. They were encouraged to do fo, the fooner, becaufe Port-Royal Ifland had a very capacious and fafe Harbour, and was likely to hecome a *^ Place ot great Trade, as being a commo- dious Station for Shipping, and the Coun- try around, affording Plenty of all Pro^ vifions. Here are now computed to be i^bovc 70 Families. They obtained a con- fiderable Sum of Money from the Go- vernment there, towards Building a Churchy to which^. feve^ral worthy Qentlemen added Con- to SkmtfahCaroIina. 103 Contributions, and in the Year 1724, built ft fmall Church, a neat Brick Building, in Length, from the ^efi-End to the Chan- cel, 40 Feet, and in Breadth 30 ; the Chan- cel is 10 Feet fquare : The Communion- Table, Pulpit, Desk, and fome Pews, are made of Cedar. There was a preffing Oc- cafion for having a Church here, becaufe the Inhabitants of this Parifh live at a great Diftance from each other, and the neareft of them at leafl 40 Miles diftant, from any other Parifh-Church. The People when they began to build their Church, requcfted the Society to fend them a Mif- (ionary. The Reverend Mr. Lewis Jones was appointed hither in the Year 1725. He hath behaved himfelf worthily in the Difcharge of all the Duties of his Miiliom and inftruded feveral grown Perfons in the Chriftian Faith, and admitted them to Baptifm. He continues ftill here. 7. T H E Reverend Mr. Hafell was fent to rtlu^Ht the Parifh of St. I'homas in 1709. He hadA^' ^""Vpt'* been formerly employed by the Society, asrUh. Catechift in Charles-Town-, which Office he difcharged withDiligence: The firfl Church Built here, (now ufed for a Chapel of Eafe) was called Pomkinhill Church, from a rifing Hill of that Name^ on which it was Built ; H 4 it 104 rr ..*s :Mt§omiet}fm \t is fituate near the River Side, made of Cyprefs Wood, 30 Foot fquarc, Ereded about the Year 1703, at the Charge of the Neighbourhood, and by the particular Afliftance of Sir Nathaniel Johnjon. But the Parifh-Chyrch of St. I'homas was Built of Brick, lituate on a Neck of Land, on the North'WeJi of Wandoe River, and South-Weji of Cooper River j in Purfuancc of an Adt of Aflembly made in 1706. The Foundation of this Church was laid in 1707, and the Building finifhed the next Year j Mr, HaJ'ell was the firft Minifter of this Church, eledled by Virtue of the above- mentioned Adl. There are in this Parifh upwards of 600 Acres of Glebe Land, 200 of which adjoin to the Church ; and 420 to the Chapel of Eafe. There is as yet no Parfonage-Houfe Built in this Parifh, but the Money allowed by the Aflembly for that Ufe, is laid out at Intereft, till it fhall arife to a fufficient Sum to T aild one. There were, in the Year 17 13, about 120 Families in this Pariih, including the Settle- ments in Or^wj^^ Quarter j but now the In- habitants are computed to amount to ^6^ Whites, 950 Negroesy 60 Indian Slaves, and 20 Free Negroes, in all near 1600 Souls. Mr, ^Ha/ell had very good Succefs in his Miniftry, was refpeded and loved by I^is Pa- i- to South-Carolina. ]Pari(hioners, and a great many Pcrfons of unfettled Principles were induced to hold a firm Faith. A great many young Per- fons, defcended of Diffenters of various Tenets, conformed to the Church of En- glanJy and feveral young Men of French Parentage in Orange Quarter, who under- ftpod Englijhy conftantly attended his Church. The Books the Society fent to be diftributed by him were of great Ufe, efpecially the Common-Prayer-Books, given to the younger People of the Frencby and to Diflenters Children. Mr. Hafell conti- nues flill in this Miffion, with a very ad- vantageous Character. The Diftridl o£ Orange Quarter is a French Settlement, but in the firft Divilion of the Country into Parifhjes, was Part pf St. ^bomas*s Parifli ; few of the People attended Service in the Englijh Church for Want of the Language. The major Part of them ufually met together in a fmall Church of their own, where they generally made a pretty full Congregation, when they had a French Minifter amongft them j they were poor, and unable to fupport their Minifter, and made Application to the Aflembly of the Province, to be made^ a Parifh, and to have fome publick Allowance fpr a Minifter Epifcopally Ordained, who Ihould 101$ , \ 10^ ^ A^Jfondriis Jent (hould ufe the Liturgy of the Church of England^ and Preach to them in French. Accordmgly, they were incorporated by the Name of the Pariih of St. Dennis, till fuch Time as they (hould underftand En- glijb. They have noW a pretty good Church Built about the Time St. I'homas's was, and never had but one Minifter, Mr. Lapierre. JmX' 8- In the Year 1705, the Reverend Mr. fent to St Dun was fcnt to St. PauPs Parifti in Coi- PaMPsFmOi. ^^^^^ County. A fmall but convenient Brick Church was Ereded, about the Year 1708, in Length 35, in Breadth 25 Feet, Atuate on the Head of Stono River, about 20 Miles diftant from Cbarles-Town to the Southward, It is built on a Piece of Land given by Mr. Edmund Bellinger, a Gen- tleman of that Parifh 5 and a narrow Piece of Land near the Church, containing about 71 Acres, was laid out for a Glede, A little, but commodious Dwelling-houfe of Brick, was Built for the Minifter, with an out-Kitchen, and fome necefTary Timber Buildings ', but this Houfe, and the other out-Buildings, were burnt in the Indian War. Mr. Dun wrote Word that he found the common People very ignorant, and was obliged to ftay fome Time to in- ilruft *^* " their Pari(h-Church w?s too Viidc for " them, and that for V/ant of Room, " fome were forced to {land wkbc\ii: the Door, and others hang at vhc V/indov/^; i and that having agreed among them- felves upon the ntcciVaiy Enlar'^ement, they found k wai?Id coft conliderably •* more than 1000 Pound when compleated, " with fucb Decency as becomes the Houfe " of God: That they were willing to * contribute to their utmoft, tho' many of " them had been great Sufferers in the " Indian War, and fcarce able to Build " their tho* the Number of Houfekeepers then was but 105. He ufed alfo great Pains to perfuade the Mailers and Mi- ftrefTes to affifl in having their Slaves in- ilrudted in the Chriftian Faith > but found this good Work lay under Difficulties as yet infuperable. He wrote thus concern- ing this Matter, Tho' labouring in vain be very difcouraging^ yet (by the Help of God) I will not ceafe my Labours, and if I Jhall gain but one Profelyte, Pall not think much of all my Pains. He was not only very laborious in his Cure, but out of ro South-Carolina. of a kind Regard to the Poverty of his Parishioners, occafioned by the Indian War, he declined taking any Contributions from them, lefl fome unfettled Perfons might think their Religion too dear, and there- fore forfakc It. He contracted feveral Fits of Sicknefs by his conflant Application, and fo impaired his Conftitution, that he was obliged to ask Leave from the So- ciety to come 10 England i the Society con- fen ted, and he returned home in 172 1, and continued here in England, The Society fent the Reverend Mr, Pfiwnal in his Room, he arrived there in November 1722. He acquainted about Two Years after, that the Number of his Parifhioners was 470 Free-born, and that there were but few piiTenters among them > but there were above 700 Slaves, fome of which underftand the Englijh Tongue, but very few knew any Thing of God or Religion. The People were very fo- ber and induftrious^ he had a full Con- gregation, and above 30 Communicants, and had Baptized feveral grown Per- fons. Not long after, having fome Affairs in England^ which required his Prefence, he returned from his Parifh, and continued here. This Pariih is at prefent without III 5 112 Miffionaries fent z Midionary, but the Society have agreed to fend One in a little Time. 10. T It £ Church oiSuAndrew*% is fituate about 13 Miles diftant from Charles-l'own^ on the South Side of AJhley River; the Parifh extends about 2 1 Miles in Length, and 7 in Breadth, and contains about 180 Families. The Reverend Mn Wood was the firft Mlnifter they had ; a very deferving Man, as Mr. Chief Juftice I'rott acquainted the Society : He entred upon this Cure in the Year 1707, but died foon after : the Parifli was long vacant. The Reverend Mr. I'aylor was appointed Miflionary there, in the Year 171 15 but there arofe fome contentious Difputes at firft, and after- wards an unhappy Diftafte between him and his Parifhioners, that he was deiirous to be removed. He accordingly removed to North-Carolina with the Society's Per- miffion in 17 17. About this Time, the Reverend Mr. G«y, who, after the Defola- tion of his Parifh (St. fi>/^«*s Port-Royal) in the Indian War, had been fent Miflionary to Naraganfett in New-England ; returned^ upon account of his Health, to Carolina, and was foon after fettled at St. Andrew*s inftead of Mr, I'aylor. He made amends by his Pru- dence and courteous Demeanor, for the dif* obliging \ to South-Carolina. 113 obliging Condudt of his PredecefTor. His for- mer Behaviour had gained him the general Efteem of the People in the Country. The Vcftry of this Church therefore, upon his v Arrival, invited him to fettle with them 5 as he had no Parilh, he accepted of their very kind Offer 5 and the Society allowed of his being fixed there, upon the Veftry's Requeft, joined to his own. He continued to perform his Minifterial Office with good Diligence and Succefs. This Church was built of Brick, about 40 Feet long, and 25 broad, there was a Burying Place con- tiguous to it of about 3 Acres. A fmall boarded Parfonage-Houfe was Built, about a Mile diflant from the Church, and 26 Acres of Glebe Land bought for the Mi- nifler ; but there hath been lince made an Addition of 60 Acres of good Land to this Glebe ^ about the Year 1727. Mr. Guy was not only careful in his own Cure, but ex- tended his Labours to fome other Places remote, where he Preached, Adminiftred the Sacrament, and Baptized feveral Children, . and fome grown Perfons. He had fuch Audiences generally at the Houfe where he Preached, that the People finding it too littk to hold them, began to raife a Sub- fcription for Building a Church. The Parifh-Church in the Year 1722, became V'' } li IJt I too 114 Miffionanes fent too fmall to hold the Congregation : The People therefore agreed to enlarge it, and frefentlySubfcribed 500 Pounds. The Com- miflioners appointed by the Veftry, agreed with Workmen, and prepared Materials for Building ; and the General Aflembly of the Province, the more to encourage them to go on, ordered the Publick Receiver to pay out of the Treafury, the Sum of 400/. becaufe the Subfcription Money of the Parifh was not fufficient to defray the Charges. The Church as now enlarged, is St. JnJrew'&m the Form of a Crofs, begun in the gjjj'^^^ 'Year 1723, and fmce carried on by the Contributions of the Parifhioners j it is 40 Feet long, and 52 Feet broad, with a handfome Chancel 12 Feet long, and 24 Feet wide. Built of good Brick, and the Roof of Cyprefs Wood; th» Roof of the old Part was likewife pulled down, and Built of Cyprefs^ well arched, ceiled and plaiftered, as is the new Part : The Church is adorn'd and beautified, with neat Cedar Pews, a large £^-End Window, and two others, one, on each Side of the Communion-Table, with more on each Side of the Body of the Church, all neatly arched, and well glazed. A decent Font is to be placed on a Pedeftal 3 Steps high in a Semicircle, at the Entrance of the Church, and a Galary is to South^Qrolioa. 16 deiigned to be forthwith built at the fFefi End> for thofc People who have no Pews. Mr. Guy perfuaded leveral Perfona who were negledtful of the Offices of the Church, to a more regular Behaviour, and baptized many grown Perfons^ and as the Number of his Hearers coniiderably increafed, fo alfo did the Number of the conftant Communicants j he continues now in this Miflion. ^ jjz. i^L "5 i.tr — *■ *:?5;,5 ■£;., 1 1 . T H £ Parifli of St.George was formerly St. Georg/a a Part of St. Andrew\ and taken out of that ^^"'^ ^'^^' by an Ad of AfTcmbly, in the Year 17 17. It is about 19 Miles long, and 8 broad, confifting of 500 EngliJI:, in 1 15 Families, belides 1300 Negroe Slaves. The Church is fituate about 9 Miles from Goofcreek^ 1 1 from St. Andrew^B^ and 28 from Charles-^ T'own, By theAdt of Aflembly paffed in the Year 17 17, for Building this Church, Alexander Skeene Eft^; Captain Walter Izard, Mr. Thomas Dijion, Samuel Wragg Efqj Captain John Canty, Mr. Thomas Warring, and Mr.. Jacob Satur, were named Commiffioners. Thefe wpr thy Gen- tlemen were very zealous to carry on this Work. The Allowance made by the AiTembly of 333 Pounds being not fufficient for this Purpofc, they very earneftly pro- m,.\^:. I 2 moted. tt^ Aajfionaries fent ^^ motcd a Subfcription among the Gentle- men of the Country, and 1196/. Carolina Money was Subfcribed j yet that proving too- little, the Publick did four Years after, give 466 Pounds more, to defray the Charge of the Building. A Church was begun to be built in the Year 17 19, and in the Year following the out-Work was compleated; it is a Brick Building 50 Feet long, and 30 Broad, befides the Chancel. There is alfo a very good Brick Parfonage-Houfe built, not half a Mile diftant from the Church, fituate on a very pleafant Spot of Ground near./^- ley River, with a Glebe of y^ Acres of Land. V . I The Reverend Mr. Peter I'ujiian was • appointed Miilionary here, by the Society, in the Year 17 19 5 but upon his Arrival, he found the Country fo difordered with Party Divifions, that he foon removed to I^arylandt »M,%',j>a* v*.**! (W^mj^;^ TheReve-' The Reverend Mr. Farnod fucceeded rcndMr.f'/w-him, he arrived there in 1723, and was fionary. Very kindly received by his Pariihioncrs 5 they were fo well inclined to the Church of England Communion, that they conftantly attended Divine Service, and fo few ab- fented was was . X, to South-Carolina. fented themfelves, that the Church began foon to be too fmall for the Congregation. A Year after his Arrival at Cbrijimas, he had more Communicants than ever were known to meet at that Place, near Fifty Perfons, and what was ftill remarkable. Seventeen Negroes, He baptized feveral grown Perlons, befides Children ^nd Negroes, belonging to jilexander Skeene Efq; Mr. Varnod extended his Labours beyond his own Parifli, he fometimes ufed to preach at a Neighbouring 'French Congregation, much to their Edification. His own Parifhioners were alfo well fatisfied with him. He conti- nues ftill in his Miflion with good Succefs. lU' .w.i't .If 12. The Parifh of St. 'james Santee confifts chiefly of French Refugees, con- forming to the Church of England, It contains upwards of loo French Families, and 60 EngUJhy befides Free Indians and Negroe Slaves. Their Minifter hath only the Salary of the Country and fome occa- fional Gratuities, the whole making but a very fcanty Support. The Reverend Mr. Philip de Richbourg^ was their firft Mini- fter, and approved himfelf in all Refpedts, a worthy Man 5 upon his dying in 17 17, the Parifii was a long Time without a Minifter. In 1720, the Reverend Mr. Pw^- I 3 derousy 117 .n::i. ii.-t^ ,Vi.a Ii8 Mi^marksfent derousy a French Clergyman, went over, and was fixed there by the Biftiop of Loti" don J but neither he, nor Mr, Richbourgy had any conftant Salary from the Society, tho* they have had feveral occafional Gratuities. The People are religious and induftrious, and very foon, in the Year 1706, petitioned the Governor and General AflTcmbly, to have their Settlement Eredted into a Pa- ri(h, and fignified their being extream de- firous of being united to the Body of the Church of England^ whofe Dodlrine and Difcipline they did moft highly efteem ; and the Governor and Aflcmbly did pafs an Ad, that Year, eredling their Settlement into a Parifh, fixing the Parochial Church at yames Town, and fetting forth its Boundaries, which contained about 18 Miles in Compafs, but by a iubfequent Ad, they have been much enlarged : The Reverend Mr. Ponderous continues now their Minifter, very induftrious in his Fundion. Prince George's Pa- riih €re£led. ji\} hUiA':' 13. Prince George's Pariih was ereded in the Northern Parts of this Province, at a Place called Wine aw , in the Year 1725, when Francis Nicholfon Efq; was Governor of this Colony. There was a confiderable Sum of Money given, by Ad of AfTem- bly, m to South Carolina. 1 1 9 bly, for Building a Church here; and Governor Nicholfon^ to forward the Work, gave 100/. and the People contributed the reft. This is a Frontier Place, fo very far diftant from any Church, as the Inhabitants have wrote to the Society, That they have lived many Years with- out feeing any Divine Publick Worlhip performed, without having their Chil- dren baptized, or the Dead buried in any Chriftian Order. The Parifli contains at prefent, above Five Hundred Chriftian Souls, befides Negroes and Indians, and the People were fo zealous to have a Mi- nifter of the Church of England, that they built a convenient Church in the Year 1726, and obtained of the Country a Salary of loo/. Proclamation Money, and purchafed 200 Acres of Glebe Land for their Minifter. Upon the repeated Defires of the People here, the Society appoint- ed the Reverend Mr. Morrit Miflionary in 1728. 14. The Church of St. Philifs in Charles I'own, the Capital of the whole Province of Carolina, had a Salary of 150/. of that Country Money, fettled on the Minifter, by hdi of Aflembly : The Society were in hopes this might be a fufHcient Maintenance, I 4 and ; 1 1 20 AUffionaries fent and therefore did not at firft allow any Thing to the Minifter. The Bifhop of London (Dr. Compton) was very earneft to have a Perfon of Prudence and Experience, to take the Cure of this, the Chief Place in the Province, one who (hould adt as his CommifTary, and have the Infpedion of Church Matters. The Reverend Mr. TheReverend G/V/^^/; JohnJloH was recommended to the 7/^y?w^fent Bifhop, in the Year 1707, by the Arch- ^^iffi^nary^ t^bifhop of DubHn, by the Bifliop of KillaloOy and the Biftiop of Elphin^ his Diocefan, in the fulleft Manner. " His Grace aflured, He had known Mr. Johnjlon from a Child, and did teftifie, he had maintained a fair Reputation, and was the Son of a wor- thy Clergyman in Ireland: That he '* dared anfwer for his Sobriety, Diligence, and Ability, and doubted not, but he would execute his Duty, fo as to merit the Approbation of all, with whom he ** {hould be concerned.*' Bifhop Compton was fully fatisfied with this Charader ; fent him to CharieS'l'o'wn, and made him his Commiflary. Mr. Johnjlon arived in Ca^ rolina, after a long and tedious Voyage, and was unfortunately, near loofing his Life, almpft in Sight of Charles-^oivn, The Bar of Sand at the Harbour's R^outh, kept out ^he Ship, in which he was Pafr (C cc C( « « (C \ to South-Carolina. 121 fenger, till the next Tide ; and Mr. John* Jion being Sick, was impatie;iii: to get a Shore, went into a Sloop with Three other Perfons j a fudden Guft of Wind rifing, wrecked the Sloop upon a Sand Bank ; they lay there Two Days, before the Boats and Canoes, which were fent out, could difcover them, almoft perifhed with Hunger and Thirft. , , ^! Mr. Johnjion upon his entring on his Cure, found the People at Charlei-Town unhappily difturbcd with Feuds and Ani-^« jr"'^" ^ mofities ; yet he managed himfelf, with fo much Temper and Prudence, as to avoid giving any Offence, or incurring the Dif- pleafure of either Side. What affli6t:ed him moft, was the ill Habit of Body, which, by various Incidents in his Voyage, and fince his Arrival in the Country, he had contraded. However, he flruggled thro* every Difficulty, difcharged his Duty with great Diligence, and to the general Satis- fadion of his Parifliioners, tho' his Cure, as being in the moft populous Place, wa,s very laborious. He read Prayers and preached twice on Sundays^ read Prayers on Wednefdays and Fridays^ and frequently Catechized the Children. Befides the Dif- charge of all his Minifterial Duties -, he • i'Tvu be- 122 4' • »' f \ i i i ^Miffionmesfent became ufeful and happy in compofing, in fome Degree, the Diviiions among the People, and by a very modeft and peaceable applying, perfuaded many, who had Dif- ferences, to converfe without Paffion or Bitternefs. By thefe, and many other Me- thods, he gained the Refpedt and Love of the beft Sort of People, of many Parties. His Parifhioners knew his Circumftances were ftrait, and that the Country Allow- ance was not fufficient to maintain him and his large Family ; the AfTembly being then fitting, they procured a Claufe to be made in one of the Ads then pafled, adding 50/. a Year more to his Church, during his Incumbency, This was a very fpecial Mark of their Favour to him, and the more fo, becaufe it was done without his ufing any publick Sollicitation for it. He continued very affiduous in every Branch of his Office, until the Year 171 1, at which Time, feveral Pf ftilential Difeafes raged over all the Country, and occafioned a great Mortality, efpecially at Cbaries-^own *, not- withflanding thefe Difficulties, he dif- charged all the Duties of his Fun6tion, with unwearied Diligence. He contrafted by his Labours many Infirmities, which increafed daily on him; and he was forced to come to England for the Recovery of his Health. to South-Carolina. 123 Health. After flaying here about a Year and a half, he returned to his Church at Carolina, with an Allowance of 50/. a Year Salary from the Society. He entred again upon the Duties of his Cure, with his former Diligence and Succefs, and con- tinued fo till Aprily in 17 16. The Ho- nourable Charles Craven Efq; the Gover- nor of the Country, was then returning to England, Mr. Johnjlon, with 30 more Gentlemen, went into a Sloop to take their Leave of him, then in the Man of War, and under Sail. They waited on the Go- vernor and parted with him, but in their Return back, a Storm arofe, the Sloop was overfet, and Mr. Johnjion being lame of the Gout, and in the Hold, was drowned; the other Gentlemen who were upon Deck, partly by Swimming, and partly by hold- ing on the Sloop, faved themfelves, till Help came. The Sloop afterwards drove* and that, and Mr. Johnjion'^ Body, were found on the fame Bank of Sand, on which JJ^i^^dtwa^ he had almoft perifhed, at his firft coming ed. to the Country ; He was buried at Charles- T'own, very much lamented by his Pa- rifhioners, and efpecially all the Clergy his Brethren. 15. The 134 m &; j^i^onaries fent I , i .- - f'. 1 \ ^ I • » T r 15. The Miflionaries reprcfented fre- quently to the Society the great Want of Schools in this Province, for the Inftru- dtion of the Children in the Principles of w^^^r^ot* R^l^g^on, and teaching convenient Learn- Schools. ing. Dr. Le Jeau at Goojcreek, did very earneftly prefs the Society to allow a Sa- lary for a Schoolmafter in his Parifli, and they appointed Mr. Dennis Schoolmafter in the Year 17 10 5 he had a good Num- ber of Scholars for feveral Years, till the Indian War broke out, which difperfed the People and all his Scholars. The So- ciety appointed alfo the Reverend Mr. Guy to be Schoolmafter in Charles-Town^ m 171 1, and alfo Curate or AlTiftant to the Minifter of Charles-Town^ becaufe that Cure feemed too laborious for one Perfon. There is now a handfome School-Houfe built by Ad: of AfTembly, and the School- mafter allowed a Salary of loo/, Procla- ♦ mation Money, Upon Mr. Guy\ being re- moved to the Cure of a Parifli, Mr. Mor- rit was fixed Schoolmafter here ; but be- ing lately chofe Minifter of a Parifli, and leaving the School, the Society have ap- pointed the Reverend Mr. Lamhcrt School- mafter and Catechift or Afternoon Preacher there ; and Accounts have been tranf- mitted to South'Carolitia. mitted to the Society, that he difcharges his Duty with Diligence, and hath been very ufeful in training up the Youth. ' / 29 The People of the whole Country are throughly fenfible of the Neceflity of Schools, for the Chriftian Education of their Children, and have, in feveral Places, taken Meafures for Founding of Schools. An A&. of Affembly was pafled in the Year 1724, for eftablifhing of a Free- p„j,,^,,,, School in the Town of Dorchejier, in the foi founding Parifh of St. George. Upon this Occafion fome of the mod confiderable Gentlemen of this Colony, wrote to the Society, 'The chief Source of Irreligion and Immorality here^ is the Want of Schools j and we may jufily be apprshenfive^ that if our Children continue longer to he deprived of Opportuni- ties of being inJlruBedy Chrijiianity will of Courfe decay infenfibly^ and we Jhall have a Generation of our own^ as ignorant as the Native Indians. This Adt hath been tranfmitted to Great Britain for the Royal Aflent. The People alfo of St. PauN Parifh have lately raifed a Sum of Money by voluntary Subfcriptions, for Founding a Free-School , and Mr. Whitmarjh of this Parifh, lately deceas'd, hath left 500/. for this Purpofe ; they now have good hopes of raifing a fufficient Fund for Buildijig and En- \ I 126 Miffiomrieijint Endowing one. The Reverend Mr. Lud-* lam, lately the Society's Mifiionary at GooJ^ creek, bequeathed all his Eftate, which hath been computed to be about 2000/4 Carolina Money, for Building and Endowing a School at Goo/creek, This Society, who are the Truftees appointed by his Will, hope to fettle this School in a little time. The late Richard Beresford Efq; of St. 7'bomas's Pariih, in this Colony, has been a great Promoter of the founding of Schools. He died in March 1722, ard by his Will bequeathed the Annual Profits of his E- ftate, which was very confiderable, in truft, to be paid to the Veftry of that Parifh j from the Time of his Deceafe, until his Son, who was at that Time about Eight Years of Age, fhould arrive at the Age of 21 Years: Diredtiug farther the Veftry to apply one Third, of the yearly Profits of his Eftate, for the Sup- port of one, or more Schoolmafters ; who ihould teach Reading, Accounts, Mathe- maticks, and other liberal Learnings and the remaining two Thirds, towards the Support and Maintenance of the Children of the Poor of that Pariih, who ftiould be fent to this School. The Veftry of this Parifti have fince received from this Eftate 6500 Pounds Carolina Money ^ and placed out 1200 E- to South-Carolina. 1 200 Pounds of it, in Purchafe of a Planta- tion, about half a Mile diilant from the Church, containing 600 Acres of Land, with convenient Buildirigs upon it, for the Ufe of the defigned School ; and placed out the remaining Money at Interefl upon Land Security. ^ . IS7 ^^ . ' , * /T" .>;'.A ' \\ * r'.-\.\ I T is now to be hoped this neceffary Work, of the Education of the Youth, will be carried on with Succefs ; which the Society have always drove to the utmoft of their Power to promote 5 they have not only helped towards Maintenance of fome Schoolmafters, but have alfo, at Times, „ , ,.- . . f, » n 1 Books diftri- fent large Quantities of good Books, as buted in c<- Bibles, Common-Prayer-Books, Whole '''^'"''' Duties of Man, Catechifms, and other De- votional Books. The Society have fent to this Province, above 2000 Volumes, and above 300/. Worth of fmall Tradts, not Bound. 16. I have now related the Endeavours of th^ Society, towards fettling Religion in this Colony J which, however fmall in Comparifon of the great End fought for, have, notwlthftanding, had important Con- fequence$. The Zeal and Bounty of this Society, hath raifed a noble and truly Chriilian Emulation in the Inhabitants of this II - \i 128 }\ rff. Mifftonatm fent this Province, to carry on fo great and neceflary a Work. The Example fet by the Society, hath influenced the People to contribute very bountifully to their own Happinefs, hath induced them, with great Chearfulnefs, to build Churches, to aflign ilated Salaries to the Clergy, by Adts of Af- fembly, to allot Glebes to the Churches, to open and to endow Schools for the Educati- on of their Children. Soon after the Foun- dation of this Society, an Ad: of Aflembly pafled in the Year 1706, for EJiabliJhing Religious Worjhip according to the Church of England j for dividing the whole Pro- vince into ten Pariflies, (to which three have been fince added) for allowing a con- iiderable Sum for the Building each Church, and ordering one to be built in each Pa- rifh; for Incorporating the Redtors or Minifters; for allowing the Miniflers of the Country Pariflies 100/. a Year, currant Money of that Province, eachi and the Redor of Charles-l'own 150/. All which Churches were foon after built, have been fupplyed with Minifters by this Society, and have been faithf lly paid their fettled Salaries by the Country. And lately in the Year 1723, a farther Law was pafled for augmenting the Minifters Salaries, and appointing them to be paid in Frochma^ li-j I* tWl to South-Carolina. tion Money. The Clergy were fo fenfible of this Liberality of the People, that they did in the moft grateful Manner repre- fent to the Society, that confidering the Circumftances of the Colony, it was a very generous Settlement. . 127 Pa- Thus thro* the pious Liberality of the Country, tho* there was fcarce any Face of the Church of England in this Province, when this Society was firft eftablifhed, there have been 13 Churches, and 4 Chapels of Eafe fince built j a Free-School hath been eredted SLiCharles-fown. The whole Body of the People, have had the Advantage of the Adminiftration of God*s Word and Sacraments, and fuch a Light fet up among them, as, it is to be hoped, no Age (hall fee extinguiflied. i' K CHAP. 128 Miffionaries jent CHAP. VI. , T ir-tiwi-i >^VT Mijfionaries fent to North- Carolina. The Reverend Mr. Blair fent Mi/jHonaryyun- dergoes great Hardjhips^ retttrns to Eng- land. Other Mijftoiiaries fent thither i they meet with many T>iffictilties^ return to England. I'he Tufcararo Indians form a Confpiracy againff the Englifti, ravage the Colony \ are at length defeated. Mr. Newnam fent Mifjionary^ takes , great Tains in his Mifjion^ dies. T I. r ■ 1 H E Society had a very early Knowledge of the deftitute Condition of this Province : The Inhabitants, in the Year 1702, amounted to above 6000 Souls, chiefly EngViJJdy beiides Slaves 5 a great Number of the Pebple were deiirous of having the Church of England Worihip fettled among them i there "'ere fome PreshyterianSy and fewer ^akts here, but many Perfons carelefs of all Religion, and of a profane Mind t I to North-Carolina. 129 Mind. However, fome of the principal Inhabitants did, in a very ferious Man- ner, and with a true Chriftian Spirit,, Set forth their Wants of a Miniftry to the Society. *> , % . ? 7 j -^ ,• !■. 1 1 But the Society received the fullcfl Information from the Reverend Mr. Blair ^ T^g j^eve- who had been an itinerant Miffionary in""iMr.5/fl/r Miflionary. that Country, fupported with the Bounty of 50/. from the Lord Weymouth. He ar- rived in North-Carolina in Jafiuary 1703, and entred upon the Duties of his Miflion with great Diligence and Pains. The People were fettled in fuch diftant Plan- tations on the feveral Rivers Sides, that he was obliged to be continually travelling from Place to Place, which could not pof- fibly be done without a Guide, both on Account of the Badnefs of the Roads, and Difficulty to find them if once loft, as alfo by reafon of the Defarts betweea feveral Plantations, fome extending 40 Miles in length, without any Inhabitant. Belides, there was another exceeding In- convenience in travelling this County . it was watred with Seven great Rivers, all without any Bridges over them ; Two only, which could be pafTed on Horfeback ; the others had Ferries over theina, in fome K 2 Places, 1 30 -^ Mi§onariesfent Places, and the PalVagc there was charge- able. However, he exerted himfelf for fome Time, bought Horfcs for himfelf and a Guide, travelled over all the Country, and preached twice every Lord's Day, for above a Year j and fomciimes on the We^k-days, when the People could bring their Children for Baptifm. He baptized above loo during his Continuance here. He was very ufeful to revive a Senfe of Religion among them; and the People, in Purfuance of an Adt of AlVembly there, began to build Three fmall Churches. But he found the Labour of continual Travelling in exccflive Heats in Summer, and extream Colds in Winter, beyond his Strength of Body and Mind. He would have refided on one Precind of the Coun- try, and ofHciated to all who could come to him $ but the People were diflatisfied with this, telling him, the Lord Weymouth^ Charity was intended tor the Good of the whole Country. An Ad of Affembly had been paiTed a little before, allowing 30/. a Year, of that Country Money, making about 10/. Sterling, for a Miniller in each Divifion; but that Ad was not tlien con- firmed by the Proprietaries, fo that he had no Allowance from the Inhabitants. Thcfc Hardships rendrcd the MifTion fo diffi- to North-Carolina. 131 difficult, that fome Time after, he was forced to return to England, quite funk with Poverty and Sicknefs, I 2. This unprovided Condition of the People, engaged the Society to aflift them. In 1707, they fent over the Reverend Mr. Adams and Mr. Gordon^ itinerant Miflio- narics, with a better Support than Mr. Blair had. They were both very fenfiblc they ihould meet with n\any Difcouragc- ments in their Miflion, however, they en- tred on their Office with much Refolution. Upon their firft Arrival, they entertain'd Hopes of good Succefs in their Labours, from the Encouragement which they re- ceived from fome worthy Perfons in the Adminiftration of the Government at that Time. But foon after their Arrival, many ignorant and irreligious Perfons in the Co- lony, raifed fuch Fadtions and Animofities, and above all, made fuch a blafphemous Ridicule of the moft facred Ordinances of the Gofpel, in a manner too profane to be mentioned, as occafioned long and pub- lick Diflradtions, and mightily retarded the Progrefs of the Gofpel. Mr. Adams and Mr. Gordon perfevered, notwithflanding, in their Miffions. The whole Province was divided into four large Precindts, Chowan, K 3 Ptf. I i IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I ■AS 12.8 |2.5 ■^ Bii 12.2 w 1-25 nil 1.4 ■ 2.0 1^ <^ 7 Hiotographic Sciences Corporation 33 WIST MAIN STRUT WHSTIR.N.Y. 14S80 (7l6)«72-4503 f^2 ^'^^MfMOtkt^/ent Paquimatif Pafquetancky and Carotuck^ bc- fidcs Bath County, or Pamlico Divifion. The Reve- M R. Gordofi had the Care of Chowan Zmmon:^^^^ Paguiman. Chowan is the Wejiermoji, in cbofvan SctliQ largcft and thineft fettled; the Peo- dSr^^ ^^ pie had built a Church fome Time before , his coming there, but it was fmall, and forrily put together, and therefore they then had Intentions to build another. There were very few fakers or Dif- /enters in this Parifh. The People indeed were ignorant, few that could read, and fewer write, even of the better Sort ; yet the Body of them were very ferious and Well-inclined, ready to embrace, both in publick and in private, all Opportunities of being inftrudted. Mr. Gordon fpent moil of his Labours in this Precinct, it is very large, and divided by the great Sound and feveral Rivers, which made his Cure very laborious; however, he vifited all Parts of it, and baptized above loo Chil- dren. Mr. Gordon had alfo the next Precin6t, Paquiman, under his Care, There was a little compact Church built here, with more Care and Expence, and better contrived than that in Chowan, The fakers here were very numerous. This Precind is not fp large as the other, -w" i z -'*■ but be. to North-Carolina. 133 but the Roads are worfe. The People were very ignorant, and loofe in their Lives, unconcerned as to Religion, thro* their Want of Minifters and good Books. all Mr. Gordon was in hopes the Feuds and Animofities, among the People, would have abated in a little Time, but on the contrary, they grew higher, and the pub- lick Diftradtions increafed. He found him- felf therefore neceflitated to return to Eri'^ gland', which he did, bringing with him Letters to the Lord Bifliop of London, Returns to and to the Society, from the two Precinds ''^ *" * which he attended ; certifying that he had difcharged his Miffion with great Fidelity among them, and indefatigably e^lployed his Time in promoting the Interefl of Re- ligion in thofe Parts. M R. Adams had the Care of Pafcotanck and Carotuck Precinds. Pafcotanck Precind: ,«, « then had no Church built in it. The Roads rend Mr. a- here are the worft, but the Country is clofer f^'^^^^^^;^ fettled, and better peopled than the other and Caro/tf/i. Precinds. In their Way of living, thefe Peo- ple have much the Advantage pf the reft, be- ^ ing more induftrious and careful. But they were above all, to be commended for their i^ji K 4 Order, 134 •^ Mi^onaries fm - Order, Serioufnefs, and Decency in at- tending Divine Worfhip. • V- 1 Carotuck is the Eafiermoji Prccindt, in- cluding the Sand Banks, and part of the South Part of the Sound j a very incom- modious Place for damp Colds in Win- ter, and Mufchatoes in Summer ; they had no Church built here. Mr. Adams behaved himfelf w\th unwearied Appli- cation, the Extent if his Miffion vras in fome Places above 70 Miles. There were 839 Souls in the Precind of Carotuck j he preached often, baptized here Num- bers of Children, and adminiilred the Sa- crament. But the principal Branch of his Cure was the Precindt of Pafcotanck^ where he chiefly refided. It contained above 1300 Souls, 900 of which, profelTed themfelves Members of the Church of Englatid, He baptized in the Parilhes of Fafcotank and Carotucky above 214 Chil- dren, beMes grown Perfons, preached con- ftantly, and adminiflred the Sacrament in Pafcotank and in Carotuck, 'V^ Vvi* » -i ' When Mr. Gordon returned to En- glandy Mr. Adams was much dejedted, but refolved to make a farther Effort. He cc con- \ to North-Carolina. 135 continued very diligent in the Difcharge of his Duty. However, the publick Di- ftradtions could not be compofed thro' the Perverfenefs of fome fakers. Du- ring all thefe Broils, Mr. Adams behaved hiipfelf v^ith fo much Moderation and Diligence, as gained the Favour and E- fleem of the moft fober People, and pre- ferved his Character unblemiflied, even by his Enemies. The Parties here grew of more imbittered Spirits, and Mr. Adams , was quite wearied out with the Hardfhips Labours and he met with ; he intended to return to ^^'^^*** England in 171 o, upon which, the Veftry of Carotuck^ and Colonel Glover wrote thus to the Society : " Mr. AdamSy during " his Abode among us, hath behaved him- " felf in all Refpedts, worthy the Cha- ra6ter of a Minifler^ exemplary in his Life, and blamelefs in his Converfation ; and now being bound for England^ we ** with forrowful Hearts, and true Love " and AfFedlion, take our Leave of him : " We fliall ever blefs that Providence that " placed him among us, and ihould be ^* very unjufl to his Chara^er, if we did not give him theTeftimony of a pious and painful Paflor, whofe Sweetnefs of Temper, Diligence in his Calling, and l\ Soundnefs oi DoArine, hath fo much ■f! « ^ 4^ ^ 3. The Society refolved again to aflifl this People j and appointed the Reverend Mr. Urmjione and Mr. Raimford Miflio- narics there, about the Year 171 1. Mr. Urmjione took Care of the iVbr/^ Shore, at the lower End of Cbowart, with all Paf^ ..J' .# End good Tow, eftry ffedj poun- the The to Nbrth-Carplina. 137 Pafcotank; and Mr. Rainsford, of the fTeft Shore. But they had not been long in the Country, before the Civil Feuds among that unhappy People were followed with an Indian War, which threatned the total Ruin of the Colony ; and had it not been for a very timely and powerful Affiftance, from their Neighbours, the South^Caro- iinianSy it might have been effedted. The Corees dsi^^uskararo Indians near Cape Pear^J^^"^^^^^' made a terrible Infurredion, fell upon the Colony, the Inhabitants of Renoque^ killed 137 of them ; moft of the PalatineSy with a Swifs Baron, perifhed in the M aflacre. The In- dians carried their Plot on with great Cunning and Secrefie, and put it thus in Execution, in a few Hours, in many Pla- ces. The Indians did not meet in one Body ; but in fmall Parties, of five or fix Men, waited as Friends, on thofe whom they purpofed to deftroy ; and killed them with fuch Weapons as they found in their Houfes, or near hand. The South-Caro- linians in this Diftrefs of theirs, advanced 4000/. and fent Colonel Barnwell with 600 Whites, and 600 Indians to their Afliillance ; after a difficult March he met the Indiansy killed above 300, took 106 ^ .■ Prifoners, furrounded the reft, being about 600 in a Fort, and forced thcin to fue for Peace 3 which he granted, as not having Pro- m V ■« tigg i Mffionaries fent Proviiions for his own Men, if the Indians ihould have held out ; the other ftragling Parties of the Indians retreated into the Territories oi Fort Augujiino, and lay there fecure, under the Spaniards Protection. Mr. Urmfione, no doubt, -could not avoid bearing a Share .in 'this general Calamity, however, he continued fome Years an 'v itinerant Miflionary. He travelled as foon as the Heat of the Summer was over, through the whole Government loo Miles Southward, beyond Neuze River, 60 Miles Wefivsard towards Virginia, and as far Nortb'Eaft. He baptized in one half Year 279, 12 whereof were grown Perfons; and had it not been for the Negledt of the Parents, and Want of convenient Paf- fage both by Land and Water, a great many more might have been baptized. Mr. Rainsford alfo continued fome Time preaching on the Wejl Shore, and by his Labours kept alive, among a wild and fcattered People, fome Senfe of Religion 5 but at length was quite fatigued with the Hardfhips of the Miilion, and quitted it. Mr. Urmftone continued longer, but was in Returns to fome Years wore out with the many Dif- ^ "^ ' ficulties and Diftreffes he met with, and vtiuvjiicd to England. , . \^ Colonel Coi the Til Re^ arrii trai his The cc to North : ' }; CHAP. t44 Mifionaries fent CHAR VI. ;' Penfylvania fettkd atfirfi hy Swedes and Dutch { a very confiderahk Number rf Qiiakers go over from 'En^'anidL tbitber* Tbe Reverend Mr. Evsinsfent to Phila- delphia, bySiJhop Compton. A very large Congregation at Philadelphia. Se- veral Mijfionaries fent to Penfylvania. T^eir Labours and Succefs. Fifteen Cburcbes built in tbis Colony by voluntary Contributions. No Salaries fettled on tbe Min(ftersy but tbe people contribute liberally toward tbeir Support. P 1. "W^EnJyhania, with the three lower Counties, extends in length near 300 Miles, and in breadth above * 200, water*d with that noble Stream the Delaware y navigable 300 Miles at leaft, in fmall Veffels. It was fettled by People of feveral European Nations, by Swedes and fome Dutch firft, afterwards by the Englijh ITfXg- and French. The firft Englijh Settlers here /rf»fj .ciii«<«>*KMi^Mi>.'' L •■ •• u y>' i/- A-^^..= , w Penfylvania. Pen the Proprietary ; but fince that time, great Numbers of Perfons of other Prin- ciples in Religion, have fettled themfelves there j not to avoid any Violence at home, but to improve their Fortunes in thofe Parts. The Englijh were much the moil numerous Inhabitants, and ^akerifm the prevailing Opinion. Mr. George Keith^ who relided here, fays, according to the beft Computation he could make, above 1500 Men and Women fakers, uied to come to their yearly Meetings, at Philadel-- fhia^ from the adjoining Country, and from Eajl and JVeJi Jerfies^ in the Year 1689. But foon after, in the Year 1691, there arofe a Breach between a Party of ^a^ kers who joined with Mr. Keith ^ in oppo- ling fome of their Errors, (efpecially their Notion of the Sufficiency of the Light within every Man to Salvation, without any thing elfe,) and another Party that joined with Mr. Thomas Lloyd, then De- puty Governor of the Country, and a great Preacher among the fakers. Upon this Breach, all the Meetings in thefe Pro- vinces were broken, and each Party fat up feparate Meetings, upon Account of fuch different Principles in Religion, and efpe- cially with regard to that Notion, of the L 2 Suf- Us I ^i:^ ^•^'5-^.,. ^ b I ?■ tnic^c^ekr 7 <-:'•: ^y.::. ^^ way ^^*^r ^ 1) Maffac .<--&»: k*^ A»' .vr«iy A*. •••,•♦. .'.*••• "tI a -*■ "I *> • A^ U. J. t fU A IL. *- $C 'JSnds-tturv ISJ" £■ 4 i. 3. ^ -^ ^ -"^ ^ ^ (^ *&)ratttrv l'*^/* ''*'"''^. / v.-.v.vxUi' inc/uster ^„ -_ jrMeHead ^ w •uU „ ConitHU^irt fcituatt 'ften iCCoda tm v 5 *fi ^ «B. 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One Party, called the Keithian fa- kers, judged this a tacit Rejediion of the written Word of God, and of the Sacra- ments, and tending, at leafl, to fet up Deifm, They divided therefore from the Foxian fakers, and in the Year 1694, A Divifion a- there were 15 Meetings of thefe feparatift t'a^i:^^^''^'"' in P^nfyhania and the Jerfies. The Swedes and Dutch fettled in this Province, had fome Minifters among them, but the Englijh had none, till the Year 1700 ; when the Reverend Mr. Evans was gregatiotf °at ^ent over to Philadelphia by Bifhop Corn- Philadelphia, pton. But after the Church of England Service began to be performed, a very nu- merous Congregation attended the Publick Worfhip, confifting chiefly of great Num- bers of Perfons, who a few Years before, had feparated from the Foxi m fakers, and now joined entirely with the Church of England Members. They increafed fo fail, that in two Year's Time, there were above 500 Perfons who frequented the Church. They petitioned His late Majefty King WILL I A M^ for fome Stipend for their Minifter 5 ard His Majefty was plealed to allow 50/. Sterling, to their Mi- nifter, and 30/. to a Schoolmafter at Phi- „ la- to Penfylvania. ladelpbia. The People have feveral Times made Application for fome Salary to their Minifter from this Society 5 but never had any : becaufe there were many poorer Set- tlements in this Country, which claimed the Society's Help. , 2. T H E Reverend Mr. Evans being thus fupported by the Royal Bounty, and the liberal Contributions of his Hearers ; was very diligent in the Difcharge of his Duty, and thro' God's Bleffing very fuccefsful. A great Number of Perfons of various Opi- nions, not only in Philadelphia, the Metropolis of this Country, but of the adjacent Parts, began to fee their Errors, and embraced the Church of England^ oxG^iv^, The frequent Refort of People of the better Condition, from all the remote Parts of the Country, to that Capital Town, gave them an Oppor- tunity of hearing Mr. Evans and being in- formed in theDodtrinesof the Church of En» gland. A hearty Love and Zeal for Religion fpread fo wide, that there arofe foon, feveral Congregations, in other Parts of the Coun- try } Mr. Evans was forced to divide his Labours among them, as often as he con- veniently could, till they might be formed into proper Diftridts, and have Miniflers fent over to them. ji L 3 He 147 148 Aiij^onariis fent H E went frequently to Cbichefler, CheJIer^ and Concord^ to Montgomery &m\ Radnor ycach about 20 Miles diftant fromFfjiladeiphia ; and loMaidenhead mWeft-yerfey^ 40 Miles diftant. Several Con- rf j^jg travelling was both fatiguing and expen- ricd in divers five, yet he frequently vifited thefe Places, lowns. being determined by all means, to lofe none of thofe he had gained. But Montgomery and Radnor^ next to Philadelphia, had the moft confiderable Share in his Labours. Mr. Evans ufed to preach two Evening Ledtures at Philadelphia^ one Preparatory \ to the holy Sacrament, on the laft: Sun- day of the Month ; the other to a Society of young Men, who met together every Lord's Day, after Evening Prayer, to read the Scripture, and ling Pfalms ; Mr. Evans was always prefent at thefe Meetings, unlefs hindred by fome publick Service, and ufed to read fome feledt Prayers out of the Church Liturgy, and preached upon Subjects fuitable to an Audience of young Men. There arofe an unforefeen Advan- tage from thefe Ledlures, for not only the young Men who defignedly met, were im- proved ; but a great many young Perfons, who dared not appear in the Day time, at the publick Service of the Church, for Fear to Penfylvania. Fear of difobliging their Parents or Mafters, would ftand under the Church Windows at Night and hearken : At length, many of them took up a Refolution to leave the Sedts they had followed, defired Baptifm, and became fledfaft in the Communion of the Church. Several Accounts from Mr. Keith and Mr- I'ailfot acquaint that Mr. Evans baptized in Philadelphia, and the adjoining Parts, above 800 Perfons. The Weljh People of Radnor and Montgomery ftirred up by his preaching, addreffed the Bidiop of Lon» don for a Minifter, who underftood their Language; reprefenting, that a very con- fiderable Number of Weip People in thofc Towns, and neighbouring Parts, who had been bred up Members of the Church of England, were here unhappily fallen into ^akerifm, for Want of a Minifter 5 as being difpofed to follow that, rather than to have no Form of Religion, and who were ready to return back to the Church of England, H9 for In the Year 1707, Mv, Evans came to England upon private Concerns ; during his Abfence, the Reverend Mr. Rudman, a worthy Swedijb Clergyman, who had of- ficiated among his Countrymen in thofe Parts for feveral Years, took Care of his Cure at Philadelphia, Mr. Evans returned L 4 to 1 50 MijfiOMrhs Jent to Philadelphia^ and continued as before very diligent in his Duty. He ufed to preach fometimes at Hopewell in Wejl-- Jerfey, forty Miles diftant from Phila- delphia, where the People were exceeding defirous of having the Church of England Worfhip fettled 5 and only upon Hopes of obtaining a Mifiionary from the So- - ciety, had with confiderable Expence, built a Church. He vifiied alfo Apoqutnomyf 65 Miles diftant from Philadelphia -y and a new Settlement called Parkeomen. fitu- ate on the River Schoolkill j he baptized many Perfons here, particularly a whole Family of fakers, to the Number of 15. He afterwards returned to England upon Account of fome Family Concerns. 1^ Ur. Evans re- ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ X716, Mr. Evans refolved turns again to to go oncc more abroad, and the Cure of dks? ^^^^' Oxford and Radnor, JVelJh Settlements, be- ing then vacant, the Society appointed him Miffionary there. He undertook that Cure for two Years, and difcharged it with Diligence, to the great Advantage of the People, and much to his own Credit. He was afterwards invited to Maryland, to a Parifh there, but foon after died ; with this general Character, that he had be- haved himfelf as a faithful Miilionary, and i- had to Fenfyl^ mia. had proved a great Ini rumient ^'cwards fettling Religion and the ChurcL of En" gland in thofe wild Countries, n .^ 151 3. T H E People of ChefterCounty (heaved a very early Zeal to have the Church of clejhX^dl England Worfhip fettled among theni.C^"'^^ This County is fo called, becaufe mod of the firfl Inhabitants of it came from Chejhire in England, Chejier, the Chief Town of the County, is finely fituate on the River Df- lawarCy at that Place, three Miles over j the Road for (hipping here is very com- modious and fafe, and fo large, that a Royal Navy might ride there. The Peo- ple here were ftirred up by Mr. Evanses Preaching, to engage in building a Church. They ere^ed a very good Brick Fabrick, one of the neatefl: on the Continent, and compleated it in July 1702, at the fole Expence of private Sublcriptions of the Church Members J it was opened on St. Paulas Day, and therefore called St. Paul's, and Mr. George Keith preached the firft Sermon in it. The Society appointed the Reverend Mr. JV/VM/f Miffionary in 1703, he acquainted the Society in 1704, that he found the People very well inclined to the Church of England, and recommended them earneilly to the Society's Care, on Ac- 159 Mffiondiwsjent Account of their good Difpofition, tho* they had not any fixed Minifter, till now. The People made a Subfcription of 60/. a Year towards Mr. NichoUs*s Support, and became very regular and conflant at Di- vine Worftiip. Mr. NicbolU faid, he did not want a confiderable Congregation at his firft Arrival, notwithftanding his being feated in the midft of fakers, and afcribcs this Advantage to the induArious preach- ing, of the Society's itinerant Miflionaries, the Reverend Mr. Keitb and Mr. Talboty who had prepared the People very much, by their Labours. * i ^ li. J» :.^J M R. J a/per Teates and Mr. James San- delandsy two worthy Gentlemen of this Place, deferve particular mention here; they were the principal Promoters of the building this Church ; Mr. Thomas Powell gave alfo a valuable Piece of Ground for the Minifter's Garden, the Parifhioners contributed the reft; and as foon as the Outfide was compleated, the Infide was beautified, mofWy at the Expence of thofe who frequented it ; and adorned with decent Furniture, a handfome Pulpit and Pews. Mr. Nicbolls continued here with good Succefs in his Labours, till about 1708, at which Time he removed to Maryland* The X- to Pen^lvanisL 1^3 The Reverend Mr. Rpfi came from Ntw» caftle^ and officiated here upon the People's Defire. He was very induftrious in his Miniftry, and acceptable to the People. He moved the Society to fend fome good Books here, to prevent the Peoples con- tinuing in unfettled Notions of Religion ; and faid, he was much concerned, to ob- ferve in his Travels up and down the County, that there were Variety of Books fent and placed in almoft every §luaker Fa- mily, efpecially Barclay's Apology, to for- tific the People in their Errors, and furnifh them with Arguments againfl the Faith; whereas in the Houfes of the Church Peo- ple, few or no Books were to be feen. Upon which the Society have fince fcnt Quantities of Bibles, Common-Prayers, and Devotional Trads, to be difperfed among the People. However, the Society did not continue Mr. Rojs at Chefter^ tho* he be- haved himfelf entirely to their Satisfaction, but dlredted him to remove to Newcaftley where he was firft appointed ; and fent to Chefler, the Reverend Mr. Humphreys their ^ . Miffionary. He ufed great Diligence in Mr. Hum- the lerving all Parts of his Cure, and gain'd^'J^onajy t^ the Love and Efteem of his Parifliioners. ^^c^^'*- There were at that Time but very few Mifiionaries in that Province, and being obliged «54 /" obliged to divide themfelves among 1 1 or 12 Congregations, they had more than Employ fufHcient. The Church at Cbe^ fier continued in a flourishing Condition during Mr. Humphreys*^ Relidence. He ufed to preach once a Month at Chichejier^ a Town of Note, where the People had built a convenient Chapel, upon his Per- fuaiion and Promife to attend them once a Month. It is diftant four Miles from Cbejier^ and there is a Legacy left by Mr. Jeremiah Collet t to theMinifter of Chefler, to preach four Times a Year there. This Chapel is very convenient for Aged People, Youth, and Servants, (who cannot go fo far as to Cbejier,) to come to hear Divine Service. Mr. Humphreys had a Congregation, ge- nerally, of about 150 People. He ufed alfo once a Month to vifit the fmall neigh- bouring Town, Concord, where he had a good Number of People for his Hearers ; who have fince, for the more decent per- forming Divine Wor{hip, built a little Church. Mr. Humphreys continued very diligent in the Care of thefe three Places ; but by reafon of the Fatigue of vifiting feveral Congregations, contracted many In- difpofitions and fevere Sicknefles, which engaged him in heavier Expences, than the Society's Salary and the Peoples Con- tri- to Penfylvama. 155 tributions would fupport ; He was invited to Maryland by fome Friends, where he could have a better Provifion, which hej^^ ^^^^ accepted ; not only with the Society's jwiiry/^w. Leave, but alfo with an Allowance of a Gratuity of 30/. beyond his Salary; on Account of the Hardfhips he fufFered in his Miflion, and of his good Behaviour during his being employed. Thefe three Churches are now without a Minifter, but the Society have agreed to fend them a Miffionary as foon as conveniently may be. : : ^ ' Churches 4. Oxford and Radnor, two Weljh Settle- ments, were firft vifited by Mr. Evans ^^omJ^T^^ Philadelphia, and the People having httn Radnor^ build Members of the Church of England, when they were tranfplanted from Wales hither, were defirous of having that Form of Wor- (liip fixed among them again. By his oc- calional Sermons, and the Vifits of other Clergymen, the People of Oxford were encouraged to build a neat and convenient Church. The Congregation confided chiefly of the younger People, and the whole Town compofed about 20 Families ; they not only built a Church, but fub- fcribed alfo 20/. a Year to their Minifler, in Money and Country Produce. The Pco- 1$6 Miffionaries Jent People of Radnor alfo petitioned for a Mr. cMfentMinifter : and the Society appointed the J^^»7;y„f Reverend Mr. Club Miffionary to Oxford and Radnor y two Towns, being about 20 Miles diftant from each other. He arrived there in 17 14. The Inhabitants of both Towns received him with great Kindnefs, as being well known to them before ; du- ring his being Schoolmaftcr at Philadelphia '• The People at JRtf^«(?r, efpecially, were very thankful to the Society for having been pleafed to confider their Wants, and re- newed their Promife of giving him their beft Afliflance, and prefently after his Ar- rival, heartily engaged to build a handfome Stone Church, which they have iince per- formed. Mr. Club was very earneft in all Parts of his Minifterial Office, and very fuccefsful in his Labours, and happy in engaging the Love and Efleem of all his People. But the Cure of thefe two Churches engaged him in great Fatigue, ,,. not only on Account of the Diftance between Is very dili- J gent^ in h»s thc Placcs, but becaufe of the Extremity of thc Weather, whether hot or cold. Mr. Club contracted fo many Indifpofitions by his Labours, as put an End to his Life, in 17 15. Thc People were fo fenfible of the Difficulties he underwent, that after his Deaths the Church- Wardens of the Pa- MiiTion. He dies. to Penfylvania. Parifli wrote thus to the Society : " Mr. " Club our late Minifter was the firft that undertook the Cure of Oxford and Rad-- nory and he payed dear for it ; for the great Fatigue of riding between the two " Churches, in fuch difmal Ways and " Weather as we generally have for four ** Months in the Winter, foon put & Pe- " riod to his Life. cc *. \f "T* Both Towns wrote again to the So- ciety, requefting another Miflionary, the Society wrote a Letter, exhorting them to confider on fome proper means among themfelves for making fufHcient Allowance for a Minifter to refide conflantly among them. In Anfwer to this they aifured the Society, " They were heartily difpofed to ** do their beft ; but at prefent their Cir- '^ cumftances would not do great Things. They were at prefent but poor Settlers, who had newly fettled Land backwards in the Wildernefs, and had not yet fo much as their own Habitations free " from Debts ; that indeed they had built *' Churches, in Hopes of having Minifters " from the Society j and had thereby fo <* much incumbred themfelves, that it would be fome Years, in all Probability, before they could cleur chat Debt. The cc cc cc cc unty iding ity is to Penfylvania. 1^3 cafile^ Kentt and Sujfex, which run 120 Miles along the Coafl, and are about 30 Miles deep towards Maryland. Thefe Counties comprehend all the Marfhes on the great Bay of the Delaware, as com- modious and fertile as any in the World. The Town was firft built and inhabited by the Dutch, and called Amftel, from that River which gives a Name to Amjierdam in Holland. It is a large Place, contain- ing above 2500 Souls- The Reverend Mr. George Rofs was appointed ^^^^on^LvyJ^^^^J^^^ hither by the Society, in the Year 1705 j HcMiffionary to was received with great Kindnefs by the In^^*^*"^*^ ^' habitants, and had a very regular Congre* gation : not only the People of the Town* but a confiderable Number of the Country People; tho' they lived a good Way off the Town, fome above 12 Miles, yet they feldom miffed coming to Church, when there was no Sermon in the Country. The Congregation hath continued ftill increa- ling through Mr. Rofs^s affiduous Care; he extended his Labours farther, to the Churches at Apoquiminy, and at Whiteclay Creek ; the latter, indeed, is reckoned as a Chapel of Eafe to his own Church, the other a diftind Cure. When Apoquiminy had no Miflionary, he ufed to preach on two Sundays at Newcajile, once a Month at ''■^S'.'^\- M 3 A' 1^4 Apt Miffionmes fent )oquiminy, and once at IFhi tec lay 'Crt^k. This truly was very painful Service, but he performed it with a willing Mind and good Succefs. Sometimes, however, he did reprefent to the Society, that the People at Newcaftle^ feemcd to lay Claim to all his Service, and to take it fomewhat amifs Is very dili- when lic was employed abroad on Sun- ffcnt in his ^j^yg . ^^^ ^^^%^ / nvould tiot willingly dif- oblige thetfiy nor yet /tv, if I could help it, the Church at Apoquiminy, *which is as frequent as that at Newcaftle, quite de- fiitute and forfaken. Indeed, the People at Newcaftle have, from the Beginning, (hew- ed a due Regard to their worthy Minifter, and fubfcribed voluntarily to him, about 48 Pounds per Annum^ and fome other Be- nefadtions have been made to the Church. Particularly, Mr. Richard Halliwelly a Gentleman of Piety and Honour, made a Bequeft as follows : Item, / give and be- queath unto Emanuel Churchy ftanding upon the Green, in the I'own of Newcaftle, the Sum of 60 Pounds, it being due to me, over and above my Subfcription, towards build- V ing thereof Item, / alfo give and bequeath all my Marfl:> and Plantation, fituate near the broad Dyke of the T^own of Burlington, containing and laid out for 67 Acres of Land and Marfi, together with all the Houfes 10^ Penfylvania. 1^5 Hwifei and Orchards^ and other Improve^ mentSj to the proper life and Behoof of the Minijiery that from l^ime to Time Jhall ferve the faid Emanuel Church for ever. This fo fignal a Bcnefadtion, by a Gentle- man who had in his Life Timfr, fo gcne- roufly contributed towards building this Church, defer ves a grateful Record in thefe Papers. St. James % Church at Whiteclay Creek, is the other Branch of Mr. Rofi% Cure. The Frame of this Church "^^^ ^J^.^f^^-^. r2\(tAm December 1716, fituate about iOf% Creek. or 1 1 Miles from the Town oiNewcafile. It is made of Wood, in length 32 Feet, in breadth 22, and (lands upon a riiing Ground not far from that Creek, whence the Hun- dred where the Church ftands, borrows its Name : It is as fair an Oratory as any not built of Brick, in that Government j but the Rife of this Church may more pc* culiarly be afcribed to a worthy Gentle- man, Mr. James Robinfon, who lived there, and took great Pains to promote the Build- ing, contributed himfelf very handfomely, and afterwards endowed it with ten Acres of Glebe Land for ever. Mr. Rofs hath continued in this Miffion until the prefent Time,irreprovable in hisCondud, and very diligent in his Labours ; which he hath not only employed in his own Parifti, but in M 4 feveral l66 Mijjionariei fent fcvcral other Places occafionally, and very much to the Satisfaction of the People where he officiated. He hath been particularly ferviceable in viliting the Congregations in the two lower Counties of Kent and Suffex, when they had no refidcnt Minifters. A little lower I fliall give fome Account of his Labours in thofe Places. „ J Jiaa J 1 * A , » ,^ t- :| 7. T H E two lower Counties of Penjyl^ vania, Kent and Sujex, had very early TheReverend^^''^ taken of them by the Society. The Mr. Crawford Covntry is vcry fruitful, but not fo well yyto D(w^ planted as others. The Families are not fettled together in Towns, but live in fcat- tered Plantations. There are in thefe Counties many Trads of excellent Land, which tempt the Inhabitants to fix in fuch feparate Dwellings. Dover is the Capital of X^«/; County ; but very thin of Houles, contaimng not above 40 Families. The People fhewed a very earneft Defire of having the Church of England Worlhip fet up among them, and the Society ap- pointed the Reverend Mr. Crawford to be Mifiionary ^t Dover , in the Year 17045 he cntred upon his Miniftry with good Suc- cess, and gained from Perfons of Repute, jhe Character of an ingenious and accep- jp^bleMan. i: The People began foon to be J^7j/;;i l/i zea- to Penrylvania. 1^7 zealous to build a Church for Divine Wor- The inhaW- ihip, and in about three Years railed a very build a decent Fabrick. Soon after Mr. Craw-^^^^^^^' ford's coming among them, not only the Mafters of Families brought their Chil- dren to be baptized, but many grown Perfons, who once had Prejudices to the Church, defired and received Baptifm; in about two Years time Mr. Crawford bap- tized above 230, young and old, in his own appointed Cure, befides many others in Places which were not within his Charge. ]He was very conftant in his Labours, and Kvi.M did not confine them to Dover Town, and - '^ the adjacent Parts, but preached up and down the County, which is above 50 Miles long, at feveral Places. His ge- neral Audience was from 50 to near 200 Perfons, and he ordinarily had between 30 and 40 Communicants. The People at his firft coming among them were very ignorant; infomuch that he informs, not one Man in the County underftood how the Common-Prayer-Book was to be read ; and he was forced to inflrudt them privately at home, in the Method of reading the Liturgy : for the more general Inflrudtion of the People, he ufed to preach one Sun- day at the upper End of the County, an- other at Dover Church, and a third at the jiCdl lower 1^8 AdiffiMdrm fent . lower End of the County. He ufcd to Catechife the Children all the Summer "'-' long, before Sermon, but not in the Win- ter. The People improved much, became ferious and grave in their Behaviour at Church, and brought their Children very regularly for Baptifm ; tho* a great many of them were fakers Children, or had been fakers themfelves. He was alfo in- vited by the People of Sufex County, to come and preach among them, which he did, at Captain Hilh Houfc in Lewis Mr. CratfordT own, and at other Places. The People ?;SlPk«^°^ this County alfo, were of a religious Difpofition. They foon after wrote a Let- ter to the Bifhop of London, deiiring a Minifler, and promifed to allow him all their prefent Circumftances would permit ; and farther, to (hew their hearty Zeal, they began to build a Church, which they have fince finiihed, and have, by many other Inftances, approved themfelves a worthy People. Mr. Crawford acquainted the Society, that Bibles, Common-Prayer- Books, and Books of Inftru6tion and De- votion, were much wanted; for there were about 200 Perfons who attended the Pub- lick Worfhip, who had none, and made Application to him for fome ; becaufe there were but few to be purchafcd there, and ' * thofe had P6nfyr ivania.rv 1^9 thofe which could be got, were too dear for them to purchafc. The Society fent a Quantity of Bibles and Common-Prayers „ ^*^ ' •'He returns to to be diftributed, but Mr. Crawford Q'dxntLngianL to "England foon after, upon fome Family Affairs, and continued here. - -.,1, ,/^ . • Ufon this Account the People of thefe two large Counties continued fome Years without a refident Minifter. However, in the mean Time, they had the Advantage of fome Vifits from the Society's Miffio- TheReverend naries, efpecially from the Reverend Mr.chesinL»/& Rofsy as I obferved above. In j4uguft jjiy^suJptKComty. Colonel William Keithy the Governor, re- folving to vifit the lower Counties, the Reverend Mr. Rojsy Miffionary at Newcajlky was invited by the Governor, to accom- pany him. Mr. Rofs very readily embraced this kind Invitation j hoping, by this Op- portunity, to make himfelf acquainted with the State of the Church there, and in fome Meafure, fupply its prefent Wants by his Miniftry. He embarqued with the Go- vernor and feveral other Gentlemen at Newcajlle^ and fet Sail for Lewis Town in SuJIex County, which lies upon one of the Capes of the River Delaware^ and in two Days arrived there. On the j^^ of Auguji he preached before the Governor and 170 t4 i.&rtij.^z- Mtffionaries /ent A and Juftices of the County, in the Court- Houfe of the County, and had a very nu- merous Audience of the People, who ap- •V .... A- peared very ferious, and deiii'ous of the Sacraments of the Church, and he bap- tized that Day 30 Children which were brought to him. On the 9'^ Day of the fame Month, Mr. Rofs preached again be- fore the Governor and other Gentlemen, had a largq Audience of the People, and baptized 21 Children. On the lo^^, the l>^ .m>H'.ai Governor left this Place, in order to go ^!--f .S' to Kent County. Mr,i?^ fat out before viwcOxqi,v.( him to a Place of Worfhip about 16 Miles from Lewis Town 5 it i$ a fmall Buildir?^, creded by a few well-difpofed Perform in order to meet together there to worfh ^ God. Mr. Rofs preached qnce here, and baptized 25 Children, and feveral grown Perfons. On the Sunday following, jiu- guji the 11*^, he preached to a very large Congregation in the upper Parts of this Country, where the People had eredted a Fabrick for a Church, which was not quite finiflied. Here he baptized 26 Chil- dren ; fo that the whole Number of the Baptized in one Weeks Stay among this People, amounted to 102. Mr. Rofs ob- ferves thus to the Society: " By this ** Behaviour of the People, it appears " plainlyj cc that I can affure this Venerable Board, of the great Pains and diligent Care, ** which the Reverend Gentlemen within ** named, take, in all the Parts of their " Minifterial Fundlion ; and herein I can- not, but in Juftice, particularly re- commend Mr. Rofs*s Capacity, pious and exemplary Life, and great Induftry, to your fevourable Notice and Regard. But I mui\ obferve, that the Duty here daily increases at fuch a Rate, and the Labourers are fo few, that without your pious and immediate Care, to relieve and fupply this languifliing, but valu- " able therefore named S^. Mar'^f^, T'ht BvUd" ing was carried on w*vh thai Zeal and Vigour, that on Wbitjunday in 1704, D;- vine Service was pevforjBcd, r.nd the Sa- crament adminift red in it to a large Cc:i- gregation. A buryii jg Place of three x^cres was purchafed foon after, and well J:cnc^d in: And the Lord Cornbury^ x^ntx\ Go- vernor of this Province aad New-^Tork^ upon Application ^r ;\de to him by the Members of the Church, made them a Body inco*"i' orate, with all Powers and Privileges requifite. In the Year 1708, Qaceii ANNE fent this Church, and fe- veral others in this Province, Cpmmu- nion-Table Cloths, Silver* Chalices- and N 4 Sal- 1 84 Miffion4rieii/ent Salvers, and Pulpit Cloths. The Members of the Church increafed, and they began to think of pur chafing a Glebe for their Minifler. Dr. Framptoriy then Bifhop of Gloucefter^ dying about this Time, and leaving loo/. towards Propagating the Gofpel in America, at the fole Direction of Dr. Comptoriy then Bifhop of London, it was at the Inflance of Dame Katherine Bovey, of Hackly in Gloucejierfinre, who had been a Benefa6trefs before to this Church, laid out in the Purchafe ot a Benefaftions Convenient Houfe, and fix Acres of Land, Church. adjoining to the Church at Burlington', and about the Year 1710, Mr. 'Thomas Leicejler gave, by his laft Will, 250 Acres of Land to this Church for ever. ' v- '-'( I :■■- Mr. I'albot continued in his MifTion, very diligent, and with much Succefs ; and as there were many Congregations of People in that Country, which had no Mi- niflers refident among them, he fpared no Pains in going, and performing all the Miniflerial Offices among them. He was a very zealous and induflrious Man. He came over to England, about the Year 17 19, and returned afterwards to New- Jerfey, But . the Society received Advices, thit he had fallen into an open Difaffedtion u. . ^ to ul tl tl aJ a no the was He to New-Jerfey. ttS to tSe prefcnt happy Eftablifhment, and had negledted to tife the Prayers in the Liturgy for the King and Royal Family ; upon which he was immediately difcharg'd the Society's Miflion: He died there in the Year 1727. The Reverend Mr. Hor- wood hath been fent lately to this City j and Accounts have been fent, that he makes a Progrefs in his Miflion. ^ New-Brijlol ViQS oppofite to Burlington, A Chwch on the other Side the Delaware ; the Feo-pi. pie forfook ^akerijm much about the fame Time as the Inhabitants of Burling- ton did. A Church was foon eredted here thro* the Zeal of the People, efpecially thro* the Means of two worthy Gentle- men of this Place, Mr. John Rowland^ and Mr. Anthony Burton, who were chiefly infl:rumental in this Work. They had no Miflionary fent to refide among them con- fl:antly, but ufed to be vifited by the Mi- nifl:er of Burlington, The Reverend Mr. Talbot, who was fixed at Burlington, ufed frequently to crofs the Water to them, and preach and perform all other Mini- fl:erial Ofiices. Mr. I'horowgood Moor ufed alfo to viflt them when he was at Bur- lington, in Mr. Talbofs Abfence. The People were fenfible the Society were not able j26 Aii/^mrifs^/ent able to eftabliih Miflionaries in every P)ace> and were therefore content to be aflifted by the Minifter of Burlington ; and the Society have always, given Dlredtions, that the Minifter of that Place, fliould take Brijiol into his Care. The Church here is named St. Jajnes, as being opened near that Day. i-^f\ Hopewell and Maidenhead are two neigh- S^^%uadbo"^^"g Towns, containing a confiderable a Church. Number of Families. The People oiHope- well fhewcd a very early Defire of having the Church of England Worfhip fettled among them j and in the Year 1704, built a Church, with voluntary Contributions, tho* they had no Profped then of having a Miniller. The Reverend Mr. May was there fome fliort Time, but Mr. Talbot from Burlington often vifited them ; they fent feveral Letters to the Society, defiring a Miffionary, but the Society could not then undertake a new Charge. This Church was for ten Years vacant ; which was a great Difappointment to the Peo- ple ; yet they continued all that Time in the fame Mind, and whenever any Mil- fionary, occafionally going that Way, gave them a Sermon, they conftantly came to the Church Service. However, in 1720, the P)ace> afTifted id the that take here near beigh- lerable Hope^ laving fettled built itions, laving y was Talbot they ifiring 1 not This «^hich Peo- ne in Mil^ gave ne to 1720, the to New^jerley. 187 .. ^'i. the Reverend Mr. Harrijon was appointed Miffionary there, with the Care of Mai» denbead. During his Continuance there, he was diligent in all Parts of his Duty, and the People were well fatisiied with his Labours 5 but he foon wrote the So- ciety Word, that he was not able to un- dergo the Fatigue of conflantly riding be- tween two Places ; and in 1723, he remo- ved to a Church in Statten JJland^ in New- Tork Government, which the Governor of that Province appointed for him. The Inhabitants of Salem wrote a very p^ Mimonary earneft Letter to the Society, defiring they ^«»t ^^ «'»^^'»- might have a Miffionary fettled among them. The Reverend Mr. Holbrook was fent there in the Year 1722. As foon as he came among them, the People, tho' generally poor, contributed very freely to- wards raifing a neat Brick Church; they ^^yj^j^gj^l' made Application to the Church People at Philadelphia^ for their Affiftance, and received confiderable Contributions from them. Mr. Holbrooke foon after, acquainted the Society, that many of the Inhabitants lead a more Chriftian Life, 8 grown Per- fons, Men and Women, had defired and received Baptifm, and a coi fiderable Number of Children had been baptized. That in the ' • • • . {. ' f88 the Difchargc of all Parts of his Mini- ftcrial Office, he had the Satisfad:ion of finding the People ferioufly difpofed, and the Numbers of the Church Members daily increafing. He continues now there with good Succefs. i\ V , I !*■ ri 1 ! A Miflionary Elizabeth Town, is a very coniiderable tth Tov^n^'^^^'^^y exceeds any other in the Province of ^^fi-J^^fiy^ both for the Largenefs of its Buildings, and the Number of Inhabitants, confifling of 300 Families. It lies 3 Miles within a Creek, oppofite to the Weft-'ExA of : - '' StattenA.^2sA. Here the Englijh fettled firfl, and this Place thrived the mofl. The Govern- ment of the Province is managed here, the AfTemblies are held, and the greatefl Part of the Trade of the whole Colony car- ried on here. The Reverend Mr. Brook /,,, ; , was fent Miflionary in the Year 17045 and by the Lord Cornburfs Direction, then Go- vernor of this Province, he officiated at Perth Amboy fometimes. The Number of People in both Places, was very confider- able, and their Ways of Worfhip various, they were chiefly Independents^ but many not profeffing any Religion. However, by diligent Application, he perfuaded the better difpofed of all Sorts, to confider and at- tend more, to their fpiritual Concernment. He preached to Numbers oi Independents and w New-Jerfey. i8j and others ; they began foon to approve of the Church of England Service. The wifer People refolved to fettle their Re- ligious Affairs, in a more orderly manner. When Mr. Brook came firft among them> they had no Place fet apart for celebrating Divine Worfhip. However, he had Leave at firll, to preach in Colonel I'ownlfs Houfe; that became too fmall for his growing Congregation, in half a Year's Time ; the beft Place that could be got was a Barn, and that they were forced to relinquifh in Winter. The Members of our Communion, were now a large Body of People, they refolved to build a Church; and accordingly on St. John the Baptift's Day, in the Year 1706, the Foundation of a Church was laid, whofe Name it there- A Church fore bears. The Church was foon after compleated -, it is a ftrong and well com- pleated Brick Building, 50 Feet long, 30 broad, and 20 in height, very handfomely finifhed. *; •; . -> d M R. Brook ufed exceeding Diligence in his Cure, and was pleafed to find the beft of all Sorts of People, coming over to the Church oi England, He exerted himfelf, and at Times ufed to perform Divine Ser- vice at feven Places, 50 Miles in extent ; namely, i^o A^^arksfint namely, at Elizabeth Town, Rawway, Mn'^S'l^^'*^^ ^^%> Cheefequakes, Pifcataway, Labours in fc- Rocky^HUl, and in a Congregation at Page's, This Duty was very difficult and laborious. Befides preaching, he ufed to Catechife and expound 14 Times in a Month, this obliged him to be on Horfeback, almoft every Day, which was eXpenfive, as well as very toilfome to him. However, this Diligence raifed a very zealous Spirit in many of the People. The Inhabitants of Perth Amboy presently fat about getting Materials, for building a Stone Church. The Inhabitants of Pifcataway repaired an old diiTenting Meeting-houfe for pre- fent Ufe, and colleded among themfelves 100/. towards building a Stone Church While thefc Things were going on, Mr. Brooks dies, in the Year 1707, very much lamented by the People then, and remem- bred, with much Honour, feveral Years after his Death, in a Letter wrote by the Church Members there, to the Society, thanking them for fending another MifTio- nary to fucceed our worthy, and never to be forgotten Pafior^ Mr, Brooks, whofe Labours afforded univerfal SatisfaSiion to us. The Reverend The Reverend Mr. Faugh an was ap- fuccecds himr pointed Mifljonary there > he hath very iuc- He dici to Kew-Jerfey. 151 ap. very fuc- Work fuccefsfully carried on th Miniftry. At firft he met with many Dif- ficulties and Difcouragements, which by his well-regulated Condud, and difcreet Zeal, he peaceably overcame. The main Body of his Congregation were but juft brought over from various Ways, thefc he kept together without much Trouble. He vifited the remaining Diflcnters of all Kinds, at their Houfes, and without ufing any angry Difputings, engaged many to a Conformity. In the Year 17 11, he ac- quainted the Society with the Progrefs he made. That he had a large Congregation j^hbMS^ at Elizabeth Town conftantly, and had 30 Communicants monthly 5 he had bap- tized 80 Children, and 12 grown Perfons, in the Space of two Years ; that he kept conftantly a monthly Ledture at Rawway^ where he preached to a fmall Congrega- tion, and Catechifed their Children j that feveral Families of the neighbouring Town Woodbridge^ had hereupon requefted him to make them a Vifit, which he gladly and prefently complied with, taking this to be a plain Demonftration of their good Difpolition to receive the Church Do- ctrines, inftead of various Opinions of ^takerifm and Anabaptijm, Wood' 192 Mi/fionariesjhtt^ People of W09S ridge build A Church. JVoodbridge is a good Town, (ituate on a Creek in the Soundy formed by Statten- Ifland and the Jerfeyy it contained iso Families. The fmall Congregation which embraced the Church of England Wor- (liip, and came to hear Mr. Vaughan, made a Subfcription of 100/. and raifed a Timber Frame, Clapboarded. Mr. Vaughan 11 fed to officiate here once a Fortnight in the Afternoon. He reprefentcd to the Society the Want of large Bibles and Com- mon-Prayer-Books for the Churches J and of Bibles and Common-Prayers, Expd- fitions on the Catechifm^ and other de- votional and practical Tradts for the Peo- ple i that it would be a great Charity to Numbers of the Inhabitants, not only on Account of their Ignorance of the Do- ctrines of Chriftianity, but alfo of their Poverty, and the Difficulty of getting Books. The Society by the firft Convey- ance, fent him large Bibles and Common- Prayer-Books for the Churches, 100 Bibles and Common-Prayers, and five Pounds Worth of fmall Trades, to be diftributed among the poorer People. The Society have been fince informed, thefe Books proved very ufeful in leading many into a ''J: to New-Jerfey. 1^3 Lte on 'atten- I I20 which Wor- ughan, lifed a lughan ght in 3 the Com- >; and Exp6- er de- le Peo- rity to niy on ,e Do- their jetting onvey- imon- Bibles ounds ibuted lociety Books y into a a due Knowledge of the Duties of a Chri- Aian Life. Mr. Vaughan extended alfo his Labours Mr. Vaugban at Times to Pifcafaway, about lo Miles ^^^ipj^j^.^^ diftant from Elizabeth Town, commo- dioufly fituate about 6 Miles up the River Raritariy and confifting of 8o Families. Much the greater Number of the People here were very well difpofed, and attend- ed the Publick Worfhip at flated Times, with a great deal of Devotion. But feve*- ral of the Inhabitants were infected with the Errors of the Anabaptijls and Sabba-^ tariansy the latter of which, did in a Sort Judaize in their manner of keeping Sa- turday, and refufed (hewing any Regard to the Lord's Day, by abflaining from any of their ordinary Callings. However, at length feveral came to hear the Prayers of the Churchi and many young People, who had no inveterate Prejudices, were pretty conflant in their Attendance. As yet there was no Church built j but Mr. John Bur-- roughs^ a ferious Chriftian, gave the Peo- ple the Ufe of his Houfe, which they fre- quented feveral Years, to attend Divine Worlhip. O Mr. «H Aftjjionaries fent Viw; M R. Vaughan continued to difcharge the Duties of his Miffion with good Succefs. The Members of the Church of England wrote a Letter to the Society, in the Year 17 17, returning Thanks for the fettling of Mr. Vaughan among them, expreffing themfelves farther thus : " We efteem Tivc People ** our felves happy under his Paftoral c:hanafr°o1 " ^^^^> ^^^ ^^^® ^ thorough Perfuafion l^it. Vaughan .^^ of Mind, that the Church of Christ is now planted among us in its Purity. Mr. Vaughan hath, to the great Com- '' fort and Edification of our Families, in theie dark and diftant Regions of the World, profecuted the Duties of his holy Calling, with the utmoft Appli- cation and Diligence ; adorned his Cha- rafter, with an exemplary Life and Con- " verfation ; and fo behaved himfelf, with " all due Prudence and Fidelity; (hewing Uncorruptnefs, Gravity, Sincerity, and found Speech ; that they who are of the ** contrary Part, have no evil Thing to " fay of him." The Society received fe- veral other Accounts, to the fame Pur- port. Mr. Vaughan continues now in this Miffion, with the fame advantageous Cha- rafter. cc (( «< cc It $ Perth Amboy^ hath from the firft been un- der the Society's Care. It is faid to be a very pleafanc, healthy, and commodious Places iituate at the Mouth of the River Raritan^ which fails into Sandyhook Bay, able to contain a great Fleet of Ships, and never frozen. So commodious for Trade, that Ships in one Tide, can come up to the Merchant's Door. It is but a fmall Place, tho' honoured with the Name of a City, and is much exceeded by Elizabeth Town* Upon the Englip Conqueft of this Coun- try, the religious Affairs, were for a long Time very unfcttled ; the new Comers being employed in ordering their Plan- tations and Trade. For fome time no ,> Congregations met for celebrating Pub- lick Divine Worfhip, either in the Presby^ terian Way, or according to the Church of England, However, fome Clergymen, occafionally pafling through this Place, per- formed Divine Service, and adminiftred the Sacraments ; by this means, the fober Peo- ple kept fome Remembrance of the Church of England Service. At laft, feveral of the Proprietaries of the Eajhrn Divifion, requefted Bifliop Compton to fend them axhe Reve- Minifter. The Reverend Mr. Edward' f'^^J-^'"' thuck lent to Pert buck was lent; upon his Arrival 2itMboy. O 2 Perth 1^6 Aftffimaries fent Perth Amboy, the Council of the Proprie- taries fet apart one of the Houles, (which had been formerly built at the Charge of the general Propriet^'ties) y^r the peculiar Service and Worjhip of God, according to the Laws £/' England. This Houfe, by a Number of good People, was foon pewed and fitted up, for the intended religious Ufe. Mr. Perthuck performed Divine Service here, and fometimes, when he at- tended the Governor to Burlington, had the publick Town-houfe allowed him to preach in ; this was before the Eftablifh- ment of this Society. : - \f ThcRcverend "^"^ ^^ Miffionary employed here Uv. Brooks oU\yy the Socicty, was Mr. Brooks^ mentioned Perth Amboy. above. He frequently vifited this City, by the Lord Cornhury\ Direction, then Go- vernor of New-Tork, In the Year 1705, the People grew zealous to have the Church Wor(hip eilablifhed among them, and began to prepare Materials for build- ing a Church i but Mr. Brec^j Death hap- pening foon, it occaiioned a Delay. The Society directed Mr. Vaughan to take what Care he could of this City, and he fre- quently vifited them, and was very ufeful and acceptable to the People. The Re- verend MuHaliday did refide here fomc Time, wNew-Jerfcy, 197 Time, but he did not coniL.»jc long. Mr, Vaughan acquainted the Society, in the Year 172 1, that the People of this City^ Q\,xxrch. had now eredted a Church, a well com- built here. padted Building of Stone and Brick, on a . Lot of Ground given for that purpofe, by Thomas Gordon^ George iVillocks^ and John Barclay^ Efquires, who have transferred ar i conveyed their Title to the Church- Wardens and Veftry of the faid Church; the remaining Part of this Lot, being two Acres of Land, is for a Parfonage- houfe, for a publick School, and for a Houfe for the Schoolmafter, when they fhall be provided with a Perfon of fuitable Abilities, for that purpofe. Bdides this, Mr. George Willocks^ and Major John Harrifon, have given 12 Acres of Land, contiguous to the City, for a Glebe for an Epifcopal Minifter for ever. There hath been alfo given to the Church, by the Will of a pious and charitable Gentle- woman, Mrs. Margaret Willocks deceas'd. Wife of Mr. John Willocks ; a Houfe in which fhe lived, and two Acres of Land thereto belonging, for the Ufe of the Minifter there, being of the Church of England^ iov ever. This laft Gift, is reckoned to be worth 400/. Sterling Money, O3 The pf 1^8 Miffmaries fent • <:i, fent to Pertif The Society obferved, with much Sa- TheRcverend^^s^'^^^on, this Zeal of the People, and re- Mr skinner folved now to fend a refident Miffio- nary to this Place. The Reverend Mr. Skinner was fent in the Year 1721. He was received by the People with much Kindnefs and Civility. Accounts were tranfmitted to the Society, of the Favour the Inhabitants (hewed him, and that the Congregation at Amboy increafed confi- derably, and the other at Pifcataway was daily growing, and would in a little Time, in all Probability, be as numerous as any in thofe Parts. Soon after Mr. Skinner's Arrival, the People of Pifcataway built themfelves a handfome Wooden Chapel. Both Congregations increafed every Year. Mr. Skinner continues now in this Miflion, with good Succefs, The Society have fupported alfo one Schoolmafter at Burlington, from the Year 17 12, to teach the poorer Children to read, write, Cypher, and the Church- Catechifm. Accounts and Certificates have been tranf- mitted to the Society, from time to time, of his teaching School with DiJigence. The Schoolmafler's Name is Rowland Ellis, The to New-Jerfey, 199 The People of this Country, tho* they have no Law which might oblige them toggven Chur- build Churches, have, neverthelefs, out of^^«* ''"''' their ovm Chriftian Difpofition, built feven convenient Churches, and have, according to their Abilities, contributed freely to- wards the Support of their Miiiifters ; and the Members of the Church Communion increafe continually. o CHAP. 200 Mi^onaries fent r,-V V CHAP. IX. Jn j0 pajfed in the Year 1 6933 for Settling and Maintaining a Miniftry in New- York Government. Churches directed to he built in 1698. J Church built in th^ City of New- York. MiJJionaries fent to this Colony^ to Weft-Chefter County ^ to Albany, to Statten-Ifland, to Long- Ifland, their Labours. Schoolmajiers fupported here. Ten Churches built; Several T>onations made to them. The Dutch I. the firft Inha- bitants of diis Country. N Ew-Tork Government upon the Continent, without computing New-Jerfeyy and the Iflands be- longing to it, viz. that Trad: of Land be- tween Ne'w-England and Neii-Jcrjh^ is not above 20 Miles broad, but extends near 200 Mile$ along Hudfon River into the main Land. The Dutch made the liril Settlements here ; but in 1664, the Efiglijh reduced this Country, and moil: of the Inhabitants fubmitted to the Crown of I England^ and continued in their Settle- ments ; in a little Time great Numbers of Englijh the the of ttlc- fs of to New-York G(n)ernment. 20l Englijh came to this Country. It was foon found to be the moft healthy of all North America, and exceeding commodious for Trade. The Dutch had fome Teachers, before the Englijh came ; but the Englijh were taken up at firft, in fettling their new Plantations ; and fo much divided in ^ their Sentiments in Religion, that there was no Face of the Church of England here, till about the Year 1693. Colonel Fletcher being then Governor of thisufed for fct- Province, an Ad of Affembly was paffed 2;;;s^,f '^f for Settling and Maintaining a Miniftry. fi^^^-^'^'^Wur- A confiderable Number of the Inha- '^" bitants of New-Tork City, the Capi- tal of the whole Province, and as it is faid, the pleafantefl City in all America -, were very defirous of having the Church of England Worfhip fettled among them. However, it was near four Years after the pafling of this Adt, before any Thing was done in Purfuance of it. The Choice of a Minifter for each Church, was, by the Adt, lodged in the Veftry, and the Choice of a Veftry in the People. It was fome Time before there was a Veftry compofed of Men of fuch Principles, as would choofe a Church of England Mi- t^c inhabi- nifter. About the Year 1607, there was fuch ^^"^; °f ^-^ff : ,, n 1 . £ n. TT J r.r/jCity build a Veftry > their fir ft Endeavour was, to get a Church. v)i 202 ^'^'^■- Miffionaries Jent ' a Church built : This was compafTed fooner than they could hope, much lefs expe£t. The Zeal of the People was fuch, they made fo large Contributions, that a fuf- ficient Sum was raifed, to build and finifli, what was then faid to be, the fineft Church in North-America, They now proceded to confider of a Minifter. Mr. Fefey was then in the Place, but not in holy Orders* a Gentleman highly approved of, and be- loved by every one. The Governor, Co- lonel Fletcher^ and Colonel Heathcote^ pro- pofed him to the Veftry, as a proper Per- fon to be chofen, as foon as he (hould ,be Ordained. The Veftry received this Mr. r^>y Mi- Motion with uncommon Satisfadtion, and Church, ^^unanimoufly chofe him to that Church, provided he went to England to receive Holy Orders. He came over here, and was Ordained, and upon his Return to New-Tork, was indufted into this Church. This was the firft fetting up the Church Service in this Government. Some Years afterwards, when the Lord Cornbury was Governor, Orders were iflued out to the Magiftrates of feveral Towns, to build Churches, by Virtue of an Ad pafled in 1698, enabling feveral Towns to build publick Houfes for the Worjhip of Gou. . Nothing had been done in Purfuance of this Ad, t fooner :xped. , they a fuf- finifh, llhurch oceded fey was )rdersi id be- r, Co- ', pro- er Per- (hould d this n, and church, receive \y and urn to Ihurch. Church Years •y was to the build (Ted in build God. )f this to New-York Gwernment. 205 Ad, till the Lord Cornburf^ Order gave Life to this Dcfign. Churches were foon after built in tht refpedtive Towns, and the Expences levied, on the Inhabitants by a publickTax. \ • v . The Members of the Church of En- gland began to increafe now in many Towns, but efpecially at New^Tork City. This was in a great meafure owing to the Reverend Mr. Vefey^ who, by his whole Conduct, had gained the Efleem of People, of many Sorts of Perfualions. He was not a Miflionary from this Society, fo that but few, and imperfeft Accounts of his Labours, have been fent hither. How- ever, I cannot in Juftice to him, conclude this Paragraph, without giving the Rea- der a few Lines, wrote to the Society con- cerning him, by a Gentleman, who him- felf deferved all Commendation, Caleb Heathcote Efq; who, by his prudent Zeal, and wife Condud, was a chief Inftruinent in fettling the Church of England^ in New^ Tork Government, in ConneSiicut Colony, and in New-Jerfey : His Letter to the Society in 1714, runs thus: " Mr. F^'^j* ^"'""^' , being fettled in our Church, hath ever charaaer of fmce continued with great Faithfulnefs^^'^" ^^'^^^' " in the Difcharge of his Duty. His Life " and t.' «( '* and Converfation hath likewife been very regular, and without the leafl Stain '* or Blemifh, as to his Morals. He is not only a very excellent Preacher, but was always very careful never to mix in his Sermons, any Thing improper to be de- " livered out of the Pulpit. It is the good " Providence of God, he is continued fo " long among us, for the thorough Settle- " ment of the Church in this Place. The Account I have given you of Mr. Vefeyy is not grounded on Reports, having faid nothing but what I very well know, and " have obferved'from i6 or 17 Years Ac- quaintance with, and Knowledge of him." Mr. Vefey is now living, and Redor of that Church, the Chief in New-Tork. 2. Weft'CheJter County lies on the Sea-^ Coaft, to the Weji of Hudfon River. The People here, were more generally Englijh^ than in any County of the Government ; it contains a very great Tradt of Land, and generally the beft of any in thdfe Parts* There were computed to be in it, not above 2000 Souls in the Year 1702 5 but the Goodnefs of the Soil feemed to promife, it would in Time be a very populous Place. The whole County is 16 Miles in Length, containing fix fmall Towns, Weji-Chejlery Eap : been I Stain is not ut was in his be de- e good ued fo Settle- The Fe/ey, g faid V, and rs Ac- him." )f that le Sea-f The nglijb, nent ; , and Parts. above the ife, it lace, igth, ^eJleKy to New-York Government. 205 Eaft'Cbefter^New-RocbelyRye^Marmaronecky and Bedfordy beiides two fmall Places, called lower Tonkers and Philipsburg, This was the State of the Place in 1702. The The People of Inhabitants of Weft^Chefter, the Chiefg^^^-^^^Ar Town, were the firft who defired a Mif- Church. fionary in this Country. They built a Church in Purfpance of the Adt for build- ing five Churches, and 50/. a Year was fettled on the Minifter. The Society ap- pointed the Reverend Mr. Bartonv Mif- fionaryhere, in the Year 1702. The Lord Cornburyy then Governor of the Province, fixed Mr. Bartow* s chief Refidence at TheReverend JVeJiXheJier ', however, as there were fe-^^^MKnoT veral other Places which wanted his Af- ^ ^*^«''- fiftance, he divided his Labours among them, according to the Society's Directions. He often vifited Eaft-Cbefler^ New-Rocbel^ and Tonkers, He had good Succefs in his Miflion, and wrote to the Society in 1704. " I have been now two Years in aftual Ser- " vice of my Miflion, in this Parifh, and " by the Blefling of God, have been in- " ftrumental in bringing many into the ** Communion of our Church, who are " very conftant and devout at their At- " tendance on Divine Worfliip. Thofe " who were Enemies at my firft coming, ** are now zealous Profelfors of the Or- m <( di- ^ Mijfonm^s fenit ** dinances of the Gofpcl. The Inhabit tants of my Parifh live fcattered and much difperfed, which occaiions my " Duty to be more difficult." Mr. Bar^ tow continued very induilrious in his Mif- fion, and well refpeded by the People. His Cure was very large; the Number of Inhabitants at Weft^Cheftery was about 550, at EaJl'Chefter above 400, and at Tonkers 230. He ufed to preach at Eaft-' Chejier^ (which was now made a diftindt Parifli, and had built a Church) once a Month, where he had a large Congregation. , - The People here, were generally of the Presbyterian Perfuaiion, till Mr. Bartow came among them j but in the Year 1703, they embraced the Church of England Worihip, and received him for their Mi- nifter. There is no Parfonage-houfe here, but there are 23 Acres of Glebe Land, given for the Ufe of a Church of England Minifter for ever. As often as he could; he vifited Tonkers ; a large Congregation, chiefly of Dutch People, came to hear him. There was no Church built here, fo they aflembled for Divine .Worfhip, at a Houfe of Mr. Jofeph Bebits, and fome- He is diligent times in a Ba*- , when empty. Mr. Bar^ inhisMffion.^^^^ continucci Very diligent in the Dii^ charge of all the Duties of his Minifterial Office, nhabn :d and ns my •. Bar- is Mif- Pcople. ibcr of about and at t Eaji- diftinft once a egation. of the Bartow England eir Mi- fe here, Land, England could; 1 egation, to hear here, (hip, at fome- r. Bar^ be Dif^ nift't ■' 1! ' • The People of iSr^ifi;-i?orM/ wrote foonThcRevereni after his Death, to the Society for a Mif-JJf^^^^^'^^^ fionary. The Reverend Mr. Stoupe wasthcr. fent in 1723 : He was very kindly re- ceived by the People, and proved the more acceptable to them, becaufe he could preach in French^ and many of them underftood only that Language. Accounts have been fent, that his Congregation in- creafes s that befides his other Care, he extends his Labours to the Negroes, and hath inftruded feveral, and baptized 17 Negroes, in the three laft Years. He con- tinues now there, with Succefs. 4. Rye is a confiderable Town in Weji-^ Chejler County, very populous, but the People were of various Perfuafions. There P were IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 1.1 Li£|2.8 12.5 |5o •^™ MHI ^ I2ii 12.2 ui US m 1125 ||U 1^ ^ 6" - ► Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. MSSO (716)873-4503 ^% y.^^ % ^ <\ \ 2IO .^ Mi§onarmfmi ^\ were computed to be in this Parifh, near 800 White People in 1703. It is iituate near the ThcRevcrend^^"^®^^' and bbtders on New-England, Mr. jif«/r>»Thc Reverend Mr. Muirfon was fettled Irto^iJ!!°"''hcrc in 1704. The People of the Church of England here» had not ufed to meet as a Congregation 5 however, by his Dili- * * X gence in preaching, he foon gathered a •i great Number j and many Perfons who had lived in a total Neglcdt of all Reli- gion, were fpeedily reclaimed j a confider- kbie Number of grown Perfons, Men and >,i!v Women, were baptized, and admitted to • ■ ^;; V the Communion. He wrote thus to the Society in 1706 : " I have baptized about ** aoo young and old, but moil grown " Perfons; and am in hopes of initiating ** many more, when I have inftrudted *• them. This is a large Parifli, the Towns •* are far diftantj the People were fome ** ^akersy fome Anabaptijlsy others Inde» pendents 'y tho' once they were violently fet againft the Church, they now con- •• form heartily. I have now above 40 ** Communicants, tho' I had only fix *« when I firft adminiftred the holy Sa- " crament. I find that Catechifmg on •* Week-days in remote Towns, and fre- •* quent Vifiting, is of great Service. Every ^ fourth Suoday I preach at Bedford. I ?.^ ^ * <« did IK « r 800 ar the itand, fettled hurch meet Dili- ;red a who Reli- nfider- n and ted to to the . about grown tiating rudted Towns fome Inde» jlently con- fe 40 ly fix y Sa- g on d fre- Every d. I « did y Qtk Gmn^ 'i-jUWj^i )'f{ f^ did it long with fmall Suc^efs, there; "are in that; Town above 120 Pcrfons j^j.. " unbaptized > and notwithftanding all xh^ " Means I ufed, I could but lately per* " fuadc them, of the Neceffity of thay " holy Ordinance/* The Society ireceived f„^efsfiirSI Accounts from leveral other Gentlemen, lus Minion. of the extraordinary Succefs of Mr. Muir-i fon. The Inhabitants of Rye^ were indeed very forward in every thing, whi(;h might promote the fettling the Church of En- gland there. They foon raifed, at their own Expence, without the Help of tb^ reil of the Pari(h, a Stone Church, % handfome Building, 50 Feet long, 35 wid^i and 20 high, with a Steeple. Bmx whil^ they were in this Warmth 9f AifHpn, Mr. Muirfon diesj a very worthy Man, whp had taken great Pains, and vw^s attended wirh^*^^^'* equal Succefs. A very honourable Cl)g^ raster of him was fent to the Society, by Perfons of the heft Rank and Note in tb^t Government. There will be Occasion to give a farther AccQunt of his Labour^ \^ New^EMgland^ her^^ifter ■ i't^ tHili a',v.»J>>^ H I s Death put a Stop to the finishing of the Church *t Rye. The Outfxde was complcated, but not the Infide. The So- ciety wpvld by no means neglea fo large P 2 a built here. di2 ^^^ Mi^drkije^ >^ lt^Brid7^^ Body of well difpofed People. The fucceeds him. Reverend Mr, Bridge was very foon fet- tled there. He found the Church un- finifhed within Side; however, he made A Church b Ufc of it, and performed Divine Service there, tho* it was not yet floored. This moved the Inhabitants to compleat the Iniide. A Subfcription was put about, and by the Liberality and Encouragement of the Governor {Robert Hunter Efqj) a fufficient Sum was rais'd to finifh it. A handfome Altar-piece was made of Caro^ Una Cedar^ rail'd in, and a decent Pulpit and Reading Desk, and other NeceiTaries were made. Mr. Bridge behaved himfelf in all Refpeds worthily, and the Members of the Church increafed at Rye % he had for fcveral Years but an indifferent State of Health, and died in 1719, much re- gretted by all who knew him. Upon an Account fent of his Death, the Society wrote to the neighbouring Clergy of New^ Torky to vifit by Turns Rye^ as they could •r.^ • A conveniently. The Reverend Mr. Jenney Mr. jennei was appomted Mimonary there m 1722. and his Congregation now amounted ge- nerally to about 300 Perfons s he vifitad At Times feveral other Townftiips, and diftina Liberties, which were at too gteat a Mr. Sridgi dies. to New-York G&bemment. Diftance from the Church, for the People to attend Divine Service with any Conveni- ency. In about three Years time, he baptized 12 grown Perfons, 50 Children, and per- fuaded feveral to come to the Communion. In 1727, he removed from this Miffion to Hempjied\ and the Reverend Mr. Wet- more^ who was then Catechift at iWw- York^ requeued the Society that he might be fixed here. The Society appointed him there in 1727 ; and he hath fince wrote, that his Congregation are of a very Chri- flian Behaviour, that he hath baptized 40 Children; and feveral grown Perfons apply to him for Baptifm, two of which are Negroes -^ after due Inftrudtion, he in- tends to baptize them; and that upon hisRequeft, the Town have chofen Tru- ftees, who are empowered to raife a Tax upon the Inhabitants, for the Repair of their Church. He continues there now, with Succefs. , . , , . ,, 213 ,v. Ul-J, il'\:^ ii'^ :irno'y 1 confix •3. Alb any ^ fo called from the Duke of Tork"% Scotch Title, as New-Tork was^j^^'^'jy"*" from his Englifn^ is fituate on Hudfort the Reverend River : It was inhabited moftly by i^^^ri^-ctphfr''''' It is confiderable, as being the chief Place *^^'^^' of Trade with the Indians, and a Fron- tier both againft the Indians and the French, d'^^'jK] P 3 who. ii4^ Vi d:Mr. Dellius, being abfent, he perfuaded ^^"^^iuA^^^^^^^^^^o^ of the bell Note and Cha- ' i fader there, to come to hear him. They attended him in their Church, where the Englijb Liturgy was read in Dutch, and he 1^ l^ i L i preached tl t to ^c^^YotkGvuemmem. 21$ preached to them in D9ach ; fer^ral of the principal Inhabitants conformed en« tirely to the Church of England, and Num- bers of the common People followed their Example. Mr. Barclay was very intent in teaching the younger People the Church* Catechifm in Englijh, cfpecially the poorer Children > he Catechifed publickly in the Mr. Barclay Church on Sundays in the Afternoon, andl^^JP^j^^jg^^^ read an Explanation of (bme Part of it i he taught them alfo twice a Week, on Week-days : his Scholars were generally 70 Children, moft of Dutch Extradion j and in lefs than three Years time he taught 160 the Catechifm, and otherwife inftru* d:ed them in the Principles of the Chri- ftian Religion. ^,->i&.!*,„': Mr. Barclay alfo vifited a fmall Village, named ScheneSiadyy about 20 Miles above ^/i^^«y, towards the Moi&(?f^*s Cattle 5 this was the remoteft Settlement of the Englijh, The Indians came frequently to this Town to get Provilions, and to traffick 5 he often preached to the People of this Place, and ufed to invite fuch of the Indians as un- derftood any Endijh, to come to hear him jEnieavourst© leveral came, at times, to Divme Service, <6vi«/. fuch as underftood any thing of Englijh j and he tried all Methods he could think ' "^' P 4 of; 2l6 iiSffionarkt fern a of, to engage them to be inftru£led in our Language and Religion, but with very fmall Succefs } feveral indeed would feem for a time, to be converted j but foon after they would return again, to their firft Sa- vage Life. He had more Succefs with the Negroes, many of which he inflrudted in the Chriftian Faith, and Baptized. , ^ t ) . Thus for near feven Years he preached , upon Sufferance, in a fmall Chapel be- longing to the Dutch Congregation. This Chapel being much decayed, he concerted with fome Members of the Church Com- munion, to try to get Subfcriptions for building a Church. He found the People very zealous to carry on this Defign. The Governor of the Province,i?o^^r^ HunterECq; contributed very generoufly, and encouraged others to do fo; befidcs his Subfcription- Cofitributions Money, he gave all the Stone and Lime IdUb^a^' for building the Church. The Town of tUtoMChnrch. j^llfany gave prefently 200/. and every Inhabitant in the poor Village of Sche- neSfadyy gave fomething, excepting only one very poor Man, which, in the whole, , ? ,,; amounted ^050/. New-Tork Money ; King's County, Long-ijland, and many other Places, contributed largely. Nay, the Sol- ^^$ of the Garrifon at Albany were very ^^: ' "■ ^, , zealous, '^' j;ir-:f?r to New-York 6d««rmw»f. zealous, and contributed almoil beyond Be- lief. The two Independent Companies of Colonel Richard Jngoldsbyy and Colonel Peter Matthews, gave loo/. every private Centinel gave fomething, fome ten Shil- lings, and others twenty; and their OfH- ^ cers generoufly. Above 600/. was foon Subfcribed, and in about a Year and an half, a very handfome Stone Building was raifed, 58 Feet in length, and 42 in breadth ; it was opened in November 17 16, andDi- . s vine Service performed in it; Mr. Bar- clay continued diligent in all the Duties of his Miflion. Some time afterwards, it was reprefented to the Society, that fince Mr. Barclay had a Salary as Chaplain to the Garrifon at Albany , that, with the voluntary Contributions of the People, who came to the New Church, would be a lufficientMain-^ j^^^jf^,^ tenance 5 the Society therefore withdrew his Church is Salary. But finding afterward, that for fome ^ Year?, that Church hath not been fup- plied ; they have lately appointed the Re- verend Mr. Miln to be Miffionary there, r 6. Statten-IJland is a fmall Ifland about ThcRevercnd 10 Miles long, and 5 or 6 over, fituate J^^'^-'^f^*^'' on the Wejl End of Long-IJlandy a Place i^"* to stlttm- well peopled; the Reverend Mr. Mac^^-^'*"'^' kenzie was fent Miffionary here in the V n'" Year ^1§ -1? nv'i Year 1704, and met with a very kind Re* ception from the People, tho' not above one third were Engiijh^ the xt^ Dutch and Ftench. The Ftenth had a Minifter of their own, and had built a Church. The Englijh had no Church, nor any Place convenient for Divine Worfhip. The French allowed Mr. Mackenzie to preach in their Church. The Englijh were chiefly fakers and Anahnptifis^ the others. Church of England People. The Dutch were at firft fomeWhat averfe to, and la- boured under Prejudices againft our Li- turgy. But it appeared foon, that this was occafioncd by their not being ac- quainted with it ; for upon the Society's lending a good Number of our Common- Prajrer-Books in Dutchy to be diftributed among the People, they found no Fault with it, and began to have a juft Efteem for our Form of Worfhip. It was repre- fented by Mr. Mackenzky that the greateft Difad vantage to Religion, arofe from the Want of Englijh Schools in that Ifland. The Children had no Education but the little they received from their Parents, and that bound them up to their Parents Language and Prmciples. Befides, there was fuch a Diverfity of Tongues, as Englijb^ French, tnd Dutch, which made it necef- to New-To¥k Gmxt^^;?^ . it^ fary to fettle a Schbbl there, more than in ^ny other Place« in order to unite the growing Generation in their Language, as Well as in their religious Principles. '•The Society were fenfible nothing coxMj^'^f''^ be more convenient than the opening ofschooimaftera Schools in this Place. The whole Ifland*" was divided into three Precindts, they ap- pointed a Schoolmafter for each. Mr. ' \ Brown taught School in the South Pre- cindl, Mr. Dupuy in the Norths and Mr. WilKamfon in the Weji. Mr. Dupuy did not keep School long i Mr. Potts fucceeded him. Afterwards in the Year 17 15, Mr. Baylor was appointed, and continues ftill teaching School ; and feveral Accounts have been fent to the Society, that he teaches above 40 Scholars, without any Conlide- ration but the Society's Bounty; that he inftrudjs them in the Church-Catechifm, with the Explanation, teaches them to join in Publick Worfliip, and keeps alfo a Night School for the Inllrudtion of the NegroeSy and fuch as cannot be fpared from their Work in the Day time. Mr. Mackenzie was very fuccefsful m^u. Macken- his Miniftry, united the People in their 2:'>>\ (■• * ! if/. -In I'' I' them in their Manners. He was alfo happy in the Love and Efteem of his People. The Juftices of Richmond County, in that Ifland, where his Abode was, wrote thus to the Society in the Year 1712 : We, Her Majcfty's Juftices of the Peace, High Sheriff, Clerk, and Commander in Chief, of Her Majcfty's Militia, in the County of Richmond^ as well for our felves, as in the Name, and at the De- " fire of the other Inhabitants of the faid County, Members of the Church of Englandy return our Thanks, for fup- porting our worthy Paftor Mr. Mackenzie among us ; whofe unblameable Life af- fords no Occafion of Difparagcment to " his Fundion, nor Difcredit to his Do- ctrine. Upon his firft Indudion to this Place, there were not above four or " five in the whole County, who ever knew any Thing of our excellent Li- turgy and Form of Worfhip, and many knew little more of any Religion, than " the common Notion of a Deity : And ** as their Ignorance was great, lo was *' their Pradiice irregular and barbarous. " But now, by the BlefTmg of God at- " tending his Labours, our Church in- " creafes, a coniiderable Reformation is J' wrought, and fomething of the Face " of (( who coming accidentally into that Ifland, was induced to learn to read EngHJb^ then grew defirous of being inftru6;ed in the Chri- ilian Faith, and afterwards deiired Bap* tifm. In the Year 172a, Mr. Mackenzie Mr. i»f^^^^»- died, much regretted by his Pari(hioners. The hmtnted. Reverend Mr. Harrifon fucceeded him by the Appointment of theGQvernor,iri7// yet for above ^^ Years, th«i Sacrament had never been adminiftred there j the oldeit there could not remember to have feen or heard of its being Celebrated. ** The People (fays Mr. Thomas perfcvered with Diligence in his Duty, and by ealie Means of Per- fualion in converfing, drew many People to a Conformity. The Books he diftri- buted, had a very good Influence on the more fober and thinking Part of the In- habitants. About the Year 1720, he ac- quainted the Society, that his Congrega- tion increafed j that within 18 Months paft, he had baptized above 160, many of which were grown Perfons ; that he en- deavoured, as much as in him lay, to in- culcate into the People a Senfe of the Benefit and Privilege of the Sacraments, and finds them in the main convinced of the NecelTity of thofe Ordinances. Mr. nomas died in the Year 1724, after having been very ufeful in fettling this Church. In the Year 1725, the Society removed the Reverend Mr. Jenney^ upon his Requeft, from Rye to this Place. Ac- counts have been fent from him, that his Q_ Con- Mr. dies. Thomas '1 > ^U.L V. 2i€ M^maties Jknt Congregation increafesj that two grown Perfons had deiired and received Baptifm, TheRcvercnd*'^^ he had feveral new Communicants, Mr. jenne;t all of them Perfons of known Honefty and Piety ; particularly one, a Negroe Slave, who had all along preferved his Cha- racter unblemifhed, or rather made it re- markable for Honefty and Piety. Mr. Jenney continues now there. TheReverend g. Jamaica is a confiderable Town in {tntum^roL-Long-IJland, The Reverend Mr. Patrick ^J.^^J'^^J*''^ Gordon was fent thither in 1702, but he died foon after his Arrival. Colonel Mi?r- r/j wrote of him to the Society, that his Abilities, Sobriety and Prudence had gain*d him the good Opinion of every Body ac- quainted with him, both of the Church and DiiTenters, and he gave great Hopes, that a good Progrefs would be made in this Miflion; but he died foon, and was buried in a Meeting-houfe in Jamaica, The Reverend Mr. Urquhart was after- wards fixed in this Place. It was inhabited v chiefly by Independents, who came from He dies; t\A^'S*yO'England : He was very diligent in Reverend Mr. i^is Miffion, and Well refpedted by all lum. the Members of the Church, but died in about two Years. The Reverend Mr. Poser was fent there in 1709. He had along %i '- t /.; to New-York Government. 227 a long and dangerous Voyage from En- gland, and at laft was Shipwrecked with He is fhip- his Family, on the Coaft of AmericayQ^^o^'jf„t above loo Miles diflant from his Pari(h."^^* He got there, and was by the Governor's Order, induced into that Church. But the Independents had got Pofledion of the Parfonage-houfe, and would not furrendcr it. This occafioned long Feuds and Di*- vifions in the Parifh, between the Church Party and them. At laft, after a long Broil, and tedious Courle of Law, for above feven Years j Mr. Payer was put in PofTeffi- on of the Houfe. This Perverlenefs of the Independents very much hindred the Succefs of his Miflion. However, Mr. Payer was very diligent in his Duty ; he had a large Cure, three Towns, Jamaica, Newtown, and Flujhing, and he fpared no Charge nor Labour in ferving them. The Mem- bers of the Church of England wrote very refpedtfully of him to the Society, in thefe Words. " Notwithftanding the perverfe " Behaviour of our Enemies, we can with Joy fay, our Church here hath increafed confiderably, both in the Number of " Hearers and of Communicants, by the lingular Care, Pains and Induftry of our prefent laborious Minifter Mr. ]Poyer, who, notwithftanding the many Diffi- CL2 *^ culties (( cc . *-' -V ■•• ' y *■.• il ^m: .(V.^; "' I - ■'i i.) i.^^' -: I CHAP. 231 .;*; ^. CHAP. X. At The Society very earn^ to promote the In- JlrttSlion cf the Negroes. Hhe Negroes an exceeding great Number of Terfons. Hje Society dirett all their Mijftonaries to give their hefi Affifiance. T%e Society fettle a School at New-York City for in- firiMing the Negroes. Mr. Neau Oi- techift there^ very induftrious^ inflrtt^s many. 7'he Negroes conjpire to de/lroy the Englifh. 7lbe¥iht proves unfuccefs- fuli many of the Negroes taken and exe- cuted. Hhe School is again encouraged for convertif^ the Negroes. Mr. Neau dies. The Reverend Mr. Colgan ap^ pointed Catecbift* k AFTER the foregoing Account of the fettling the Church in New Tork Government among the En- glijh Inhabitants j it feems proper next, to give a Narrative of the Society's Endea- vours towards converting the Negroe Slaves, 0^4 and \ 232 Endeavours to inJlruB and native Indians j becaufe their chief At- tempts towards this End, have been among the Negroe Slaves in this Govern- ment; and the Iroquois^ the fix Indian Nations bordering on this Country. The following Account therefore may not im- properly be confidered as a Part of the Hiftory of this Country. The AT^^ro^f Slaves even in thofe Colonies, The Ncfroes ^^^^^ ^^^ Socicty fend Miflionaries, amount in the Coio-to many Thoufands of Perfons, of both cecding"grwt^^^^^» ^^^ ^^^ Ages, and moft of them Number of are very capable of receiving Inftrudtion. Even the grown Perfons brought from Guinea^ quickly learn Englijh enough to be underftood in ordinary Matters; but the Children born of Negroe Parents in the Colonies, are bred up entirely in the £«r^///^ Language. f TfetSocict 2. The Society looked upon the Inftru- uic their beft dtion and Converiion of the Negroes, as a towardTtheir principal Branch of their Care ; efteem- Converfion. jng it a great Reproach to the Chriftian Name, that fo many Thoufands of Per- fons (hould continue in the fame State of Pagan Darknefs, under a Chriftian Govern- ment, and living in Chriftian Families ; as they lay before under, in their own Heathen .* i s ii Coun- the Negroe Sl^es.. 233 Countries. The Society, immediately from their firfl Inftitution, ftrove to promote their Converiion; and inafmuch as their Income, vrould not enable them to fend Numbers of Catechifts, fufiicient to inftrudt the Negroes j yet they refolved to do their utmoft, and at lead, to give this Work the Mark of their higheft Approbation. Thev wrote therefore to all their Mif- fionaries, that they (hould ufe their beft Endeavours, at proper Times, to inftrudt the Negroes j and fhould efpecially take Oc- cafion, to recommend it zealoufly to the Mailers, to order their Slaves, at conve- nient Times, to come to them, that they might be inftrudted. Thefe Directions had a good Effedt, and fome Hundreds of Negroes Thejrdirea have been inftrudted, received Baptifm, andfionarics to been admitted to the Communion, andP*'°"^°^ *** lived very orderly Lives. The Reader may remember, there is frequently Mention made above, in the Account of the La- bours of the MifTionaries, of many Ne- . groes at different Times inilrudted and baptized} to relate the Particulars here^ would be too circumflantial, and altogether ufeleli. r..^ •y;p SiJ f ■■ t . 1(1.'. ' t . ^ -:,-^if It ^ \. 234 Endeavours ta infiruU It is Matter of Commendation to the Clergy, that they have done thus much in fo great and difficult a Work. But alas ! what is the Inflrudtion of a few Hundreds, in feveral Years, with refpedt to the many Thoufands unindrudted, unconverted, liv- ing, dying, utter Pagans, It mud be con- feifed, what hath been done is as nothing, with Regard to what a true Chridian would hope to fee effedted. But the Dif- ficulties the Clergy meet with in this good Work are exceeding great. The firft is, the Negroes want Time to receive Inftru- dtion. Several Mafters allow their Negroes S«"obftrua Sundays only, for Reft •, and then the Mini- the Conver- ^gj. ^f ^ Parifli is fuUv employed in other fionofthe . j / *^ Uegroes, Duties, and cannot attend them: Many Planters, in order to free thcmfelves from the Trouble and Charge of Feeding and Cloathing their Slaves, allow them one Day in a Week, to clear Ground and plant it, to fublift themfelves and Families. Some allow all Saturday, fome half Satur- day and Sunday ; others allow, only Sunday. How can the iV^^ro^ attend for Inftrudtion, who on half Saturday and Sunday is to provide Food and Rayment for himlelf and Family for the Week following ? The Negroe will urge in his own Excufe, that the / the Uegroe Slm)es^ 235 the Support of himielf, and all that is dear to him, doth abfolutely depend upon this, his neceiiary Labour, on Saturday and Sun- day. If this be not ftriftly juftifiable, yet it is fure, the miferable Man's Plea, will engage the Reader's Companion. • This is the Cafe in fome Colonies, in others it differs : In fome Places, the Slaves do the whole Labour of the Country, in the Field j in others, they are ufed only as ' Houfe Servants. Another Difficulty arifes from the Habitations and Settlements of the Mafters, being at great Piftances from each other in mofl Places in the Colonies ^ for which reafon, neither can aMinifter go to many Families, if the Negroes were allowed • Time to attend him; nor can a proper Num- ber of them aflemble together at one Place, without confiderable Lofs of Time to their Mafters. But the greateft Obftrudion is, the Mafters themfelves do not confider enough, the Obligation which lies upon The Mafters them, to have their Slaves inftruded. do not encou- Some have been fo weak as to argue, the^^s^/j),"'^^''" Negroes had no Souls; others, that they grew worfe by being taught, and made Chriftians : I would not mention thefe, if they were not popular Arguments now. •V' • be-' ^ 2^6 J&tdeavours to infiruB becaufe they have no Foundation in Reafon or I'rutL ^..< iMi 3. Aft ER the Society had given the ge^ neral Order mentioned before, to all their Miflionaries, for the Inftrudtion of the Slaves, they agreed to ufe another Method, which they believed would more fuccefsfully promote this Work. They opened a Cate- chifmg School for the Slaves at New-Tork, The Society in the Year 1704, in which City there were open a School i i i at « in iVm-r^ri computed to be about 1500 Negrae and Suain^*^ j^j^J//z^/^« Slaves, and many of their Mailers Negrm. well difpofed to have them made Chri- ftians. The Society hoped this Example fet, might kindle a Zeal in fome other good People, to carry on this Work, which they were unable to effect; and to ered; Schools for the Inftru^ion oi the Negroes, and employ Catechifts to teach them at appointed Times ; and that the Legillature in the Colonies, would, by a Law, oblige all Slaves to attend for their Inftrudtion. The Society found foon, it was not eafie to procure a Perfon proper to be a Ca- techift. Mr. Eli as Neau a Layman, then living in New-Tork City, as a Trader, was reprelented to be the propereft Perfon for that Office. He was by Nation a French- man, had made a Confeffion of the Pro- tejlant / \y the Negroe Slaves. teftant Religion in France^ for which he had been confined feveral Years in Prifon, and feven Years in the Gal lies. When he got releafed, he went to New-York, and traded there, and had the Character, from People of all Perfuafions, of a Man of Piety, of fober Deportment, and ferious Life. 237 He accepted of the Offer of being Ca- Mr. E/wjAr^/ftf techiftj and his former Sufferings on thec^Smto Account of his Religion, did, with great ^^^^ ^^* ^''" Advantage, recommend him to be a Teacher of the Chriflian Faith ; and his Humility enabled him to bear with the many Inconve- niencies in teaching thofe poor People. He entred upon his Office, in the Year 1704, with great Diligence. At firfl he was obliged to go from Houfe to Houfe, to . inftru<5t the Negroes, this was out of Meafure la- borious > afterwards he got Leave, that they {hould come to his Houfe j this was a confiderable Relief. There were two Obflrudlions flill ; the Time was much too fliort, and the Place was inconvenient, for teaching the great Number of Negroes. A little Time in the Dusk of the Evening, after hard Labour all Day, was the whole Time allowed them for Learning, and for Relaxation, and to vifit their Wives and Chil- dren; 238 Endeavours to infiruU dren ; which were generally in other Fa- milies, not in their Mafters. At this Time their Bodies were fo fatigued, that their Attention could not be great. They were dull and fleepy, and remembred they muft The Negroes^^i^^ ^^^\y ^^ic. ncxt Day, to their Labour. were not al- J J ' ^ ^ lowed conve-The Placc alfo was incommodious, being bTbftrufted. ^^^ uppermoft Floor in Mr. Neau's Houfe, which, tho' very large for a private Houfe, yet was not able to hold conveniently, a fmall Part of the Slaves which might re- fort thither. Besides, the Negroes were much dif- couraged from embracing the Chriftian Religion, upon Account of the very little Regard {hewed them in any religious Re- fped. Their Marriages were performed by mutual Confent only, without the Blef- fmg of the Church; they were buried by thofe of their own Country or Complexion, in the common Field, without any Chri- ftian Office ; perhaps fome ridiculous Hea- then Rites were performed at the Grave, by fome of their own People. No No- tice was given of their being fick, that they might be vifitedj on the contrary, frequent Difcourfes were made in Con- verfation, that they had no Souls, and periihed as the Beafts. Mr. r' the NegroeSl^es. u 4 239 Mr. Neau contended with thefe Diffi- j^^. Neau i$ cuties, and notwithilanding all, proved any^n^."^°"* Inftrument of bringing many to a Know- *" ledge of the Chriftian Faith. He took great Pains in reading to them, in making (hort Colledions out of Books on the Ca- techifm, and in making an Abftradt of the Hiftorical Part of the Scriptures 5 fo that many, who could not read, could yet by Memory repeat the Hiftory of the Crea- tion of the World, the Flood, the giving of the Law, the Birth, Miracles, and Cru- cifixion of our Lord, and the chief Ar- ticles and Dodtrines of Chriftianity. This was a Work of great Pains and Humility ; Mr. Neau performed it dili- gently; difcourfing familiarly with thofe poor People, and labouring earneftly to accommodate his Difcourfe to their Ca- pacities. His Labours were very fuccefs- ful ; a confiderable Number of the Slaves, could give a fufficient Account of the j^^^^ ^^^^^^^ Grounds of their Faith 5 as feveral of the are inftruaed Clergy who examined them publickly, be- ^" ^^ *^^ * fore they gave them Baptifm, have ac- quainted the Society. 4. In \ 2*0 Endeavours to inJlmB 4. In the mean Time, while the Society .^ ' were thinking of farther Ways to advance this Work, a Calamity happened which mightily difcouraged this Country from promoting the Inftrudlion of their Slaves, In the Year 1712, a confiderable Number TheA>^m/of Ncgrocs of the Carmantee and Pappa Soyinthe^''N^^^o"s> formed a Plot to deftroy all the trigiip.^* EngUPy in order to obtain their Liberty 5 and kept their Confpiracy fo fecret, that there was no Sufpicion of it, till it came to the very Execution. However, the Plot was, by God's Providence, happily defeated. The Plot was this : The Negroes fat Fire to a Houfe in Tork City, on a Sunday Night, in Aprily about the going down of the Moon. The Fire alarmed the Town, who from all Parts ran to it 3 the Confpirators planted themfelves in feveral Streets and Lanes leading to the Fire, and (hot or {tabbed the People as they were running to it. Some of the Wounded efcaped, and acquainted the Government, and pre- ienrly, by the Signal of firing a great Gun from the Fort, the Inhabitants were called . under Arms, and prevented from running racy L defeat- to the Fire. A Body of Men was foon ^^ raifed, which eafily fcattered the Negroes i they had killed about eight Pcrfons, and wounded the Negroe Slaves, 241 Society dvance which r from Slaves, dumber Pappa all the iberty 5 c, that t: came le Plot featcd. Fire to Night, 3f the 1, who irators cs and ot or inning 1, and pre- t Gun called inning \ foon and unded wounded 12 more. In their Flight fome of them fhot themfelves, others their Wives, and then themfelves ; fome ab- fconded a few Days, and then killed them- felves for Fear of being taken ; but a great many were taken, and 18 of them fuffered Death. This wicked Confpiracy was at firfl ^ apprehended to be general among all the NegroeSy2indi opened the Mouths of many, to fpeak againft giving the Negroes InftruAion. Mr. Neau durft hardly appear abroad for fome Days, his School was blamed as the main Occaiion of this barbarous Plot. But upon the Tryal of thefe Wretches, there were but two, of all his School, fo much as charged with the Plot i and only one, was a baptized Man, and in the Peo- ples Heat, upon flender Evidence, per* haps too haftily condemned ; for foon after he was acknowledged to be innocent by the common Voice. The other was not baptized j it appeared plain that he was in the Confpiracy, but guiltlefs of his Mailer's Murder, Mr. Hooghlands, an emi- nent Merchant. Upon full Tryal, the guilty Negroes, were found to be fuch as never came to Mr. Neau's School j and ^ , . what is very obfervable, the Perfons, whofe ^.^.v taken uid Negroes were found to be mofl guilty, ^^^'^"^^'^ R were *'■'-• 242 End^mxMrs to inflruU were fuch as were the declared Oppofers o^ making them Chriftians. However, a great Jealoufie was now raifed, and the common Cry was very SchoK- ^°"*^' againft inftruaing the Negroes. The med, but un- Common Council of New-Tor k City made y- ^^ Order, forbidding the Negroes to go about the Streets after Sun-fet, without Lanthorns and Candles 5 this was in EfFed:, forbidding them to go to Mr.Neau's School, for none of them could get Lanthorns, or come to him before Sunfet. But fome Time after, the more ferious and moderate People, abated of this Violence. It appeared to be a Plot of a few only, not a general one of all the Negroes, no Confequence at- tended the Adion, and People grew more compofed. Robert Hunt erE(K\;, then Governor of the Province, obferved their Fears were ill-grounde V, f.nd that Mr. Neau\ Scholars were not the guilty Negroes, and therefore, in order to fupport the Defign of inftrudl- ing them, he was pleafed to vilit the School, , attended by the Society's Miflionaries, and feveral Perfons of Note, and publickly de- clared his Approbation of the Defign 5 and afterwards iii a Proclamation put out a^^hiit Immorality and Vice, he recom- mended the Negroe Slaves. 243 mended it to the Clergy of the Country, The SchooHa , , . o . r / ^g=^*" cncou- to exhort their Congregations from the raged. Pulpit, to promote the Inftrudtion of the Negroes, Th IS gave new Life again to the Work, and the Negroes frequented Mr. Neau's School, feveral were inftrudted, afterwards examined publickly in the Church, before ^ the Congregation, by the Reverend Mr. Fejey, gave a very fatisfadlory Account of their Faith, and received Baptifm. The Society had Accounts from Time to Time, of Mr. Neau*s Diligence and good Succefs j particularly one very ample Tcftimonial figned by the Governor of the Country {Robert Hunter Efqj) the Council, the Mayor, and Recorder of New-Tork, and the two Chief Juftices j fetting forth, " That Mr. Neau had demeaned himfelf in all Things, as a good Chriflian and a good Subje<5t ; that in his Station of Mr. iV^^« " Catechift, he had, to the great Advance- *^°"^ ment of Religion in general, and the particular Benefit of the free Indians^ Negroe Slaves, and other Heathens in " thofe Parts, with indefatigable Zeal and Application, performed that Service three Times a Week j and that they did " fincerely believe, that as Catechift, he R 2 ** did ^ro^^, in the Church Steeple, every Sunday before Sermon, and at his own Houfe af- ter Sermon. In a little Time the Society fent the Reverend Mr. JVetmore to be Cate- The Society chift thercv and received Accounts of his CafecS^'' difcharging his Duty diligently. That he attended Catechifing every Wednefday and Friday, and Sundiy Evening, at his own Houfe ; and in the Church, every Sunday before Evening Service, where he had ibme- times near 200 Children, Servants and Ne^ groes. He afterwards defired to be appointed Miflionary at Rye in that Government, and the Society complyed with his Requeft. Soon after his Removal, the Redor, Church- Wardens, theNeffroe Slaves. 20 Wardens, and Veftry of I'rimty Church in NeW'Torky made a Reprefentation to the Society, of the great Need of a Catechift in that City, there being about 1400 Negroe and Indian Slaves there, a confiderable Number of which, had been inftrudted in the Principles of Chriftianity, by the late Mr. NeaUy and had received Baptifm, and were Communicants in their Church. The So- ciety were very willing to comply with this Requeft, and fent the Reverend Mr. Colgan in 1726, to be Catechifl there; and here he begins his School with Succefs, The School is If XT r^' ftillfupported. hath 30, 40, or 50 Negroes at a Time, attending Catechifm, and is preparing feveral for Baptifm. He continues now there. ^^.:>M:s- ' 5. In this manner, have the Society ex- erted themfelves, to promote the Inftru- dtion of the Negroes ; but they are fen- fible the Means ufed, are not propor- tionate to the End. One School only, opened, is but a fmall Matter; becaufe the^^^rcatWant ^. ' , , or many more Miffionaries, in their large Parifhes, are Schools. fully employed, without this additional t ^^ Labour. There ought to be a Catechift fupported, in every Colony, nay, every large Town, to carry on this Work ef- fectually. But there remains one Obftru- R 3 dion. 2^6 Endeavours to inJiruB dion, which if not removed, will defeat all poflible Endeavours. The Matters of the Slaves mufl be perfuaded to allow them reafonable Time to be inftrudled, and at leaft permit them to attend the Catechift. For if the Mafters command them not to attend, or will allow them no Time for that purpofe, this Work is impradrcable. On the other hand, it hath appeared plain to the Society, that it might eafily be carried on, if the Mafters concurred. There are fome Inftances, ;J, whers the Negroes have in a little Time> gained a fufficient Knowledge of our Faith, and been induced to lead fober Lives, when their Mafters favoured their Inftru- dion. The Reverend Mr. 'Taylor, lately Miflionary at St. A?idrew's Parifti in South- Carolina, wrote to the Society in 17 13, an Inftance of this Nature ; which for the juft Honour of the two religious Gentle- women mentioned, ought not to be pafled Mrs. iM-e & ^^^^ hziQ, " Mrs. Haige and Mrs. Ed- Mrs. E'h'drds <* ^ .,'?■ :"^ifl ''V Jn AT>T>RESS to Serious Cbriftians among our fehes^ f^Afllft the Society for Propagating the Gofpel, in carry* ing on tbeWork of InflruSiing tie Ng* groQs in our Plantations abroad. TH E Defign of the two follow- ing Letters, which have been lately fent to our Plantations abroad, is, I. To convince the Mafters and Miftrefles there, of the Obligation they are under, to inftrudt their Negroes in the Chriflian Religion. 11. To anfwer the Objedlions that are ufually made againft it : And III. To exhort the Minillers and Schoolmafters within the feveral Pa- rifhes, to Aflift in this good Work, as far as the proper Bufinels of their Stations will permit. .- . • But the Negroes in feveral of the Plan- tations being vaftly numerous, and the Pariflies very large; the utmoft that Mi- nifters and Schoolmafters can do, will fall far Ihort of the neceffary Attendance and Ap. to Serious Chrijims, &c. A Application which this Work requires. And it is too plain from Experience, that very many of the Matters and Miftreffes are either unable or unwilling to provide for the Inftrudlion of thofe poor Creatures, at leaft in fuch a Way as may effedtually attain the End ; and wherever that is the Cafe, they are unavoidably condemned, in a Chriftian Country, to live and die in Heathen Idolatry, and in an utter Ig- norance of the the true God. 2$I This is a very deplorable Sight in a Country where the Gofpel cf Christ is profefs'd and publickly preach'd; and every Chriftian who believes the Pro- mifes of the Gofpel, and is concerned in earneft for the Honour of Christ, and the Salvation of Souls, muft be fenlibly afFeded with the Thought of it. Which will of Courfe lead and difpofe him to countenance and fupport any Meafures that fliall be entred into, for doing Juftice to our common Chriftianity, and deliver- ing the Frotejiayit Name from fo great a Reproach, For, to do Right to the Fa- pijis^ both the Inhabitants of their Plan- tations abroad, and the feveral Countries in Europe to which they belong, have (hewn a laudable Care and Concern in this Mat- 25(2 "Bp. of Londoh'j Addreji Matter. Only, it is to be wifh'd, that their Care to fee them Injlrudled^ were equal to their Zeal to have them Baptized ; and that greater Strefs were laid upon bringing them to a Knowledge of the Chri- ftian Faith, than upon barely giving them the Name of Chriftians. acK/. ')^: -*i., The Society for Propagating the GoJ'pel in Foreign Parts, have this Affair much at Heart ; and, having lately had it under their Confideration, are unanimoufly of Opinion, That nothing would give fo quick and effedual a Progrefs to the Work, as the fending Catechijis from hence : Whofe only Bufinefs it (hould be, to inftrud the Negroes, within particular Diftridts to be Aflign'd to them, and who, having no Avocations of any Kind, would be at full Liberty to attend the moft proper Times and Seafons for Inftrudion, and employing their Thoughts wholly in that Way, would be far better acquainted with the proper Methods of proceeding in the Work, and alfo purfue thofe Methods more clofely, than any Occajional Inftrudtor can be fup- pos'd to do. But the prefent yearly Subfcriptions of the Society are employed and exhaufted itt to Serious Chrijlians^ &C.,Xi in maintaining Minifters in the Plantations, to Officiate to our own People, in Places where they are not able to Support the Charge themfelves, and where they would quickly fall into a State of Heathenifm, or fomething like it, if Provilion were not made for a flanding Miniftry among them. So that the Society can be in no Con- dition to maintain Catechifts for the In- ftrudlion of the Negroes, unlefs pious and well-difpofed Chriflians among our felves fhall lay this Matter to Heart, and enable them to proceed in it by Contributions given for that purpofe, and to be iolely appropriated to that Ufe. 253 's -u:/: The Piety, as well as the Neceffity and Importance, of promoting this Work, and entring into proper Methods for that End, are fet forth in the following Letters, to which the Reader is referr'd. But leaft this fhould feem to be only the Concern of the Planters abroad, I will add fome Confiderations which may induce ail Chrifitans as fuch, to think it a Work worthy of their Regard, and incline them to further it according to their Power and Ability. ,. , , I. T H E Firft is. That as the Chriftian Church upon Earth is one, being joined to- gether 2 $4 % ^f LondonV Addrefs gether in the fame Faith, and in the com- mon Bond of Love and Unity, under Christ its Head j fo the fupporting and enlarging of that Church, is juftly to be efteemed the Common CauJ'e of Chriftianity, or, in other Words, the general Concern of Chriftians, all the World over. And if we do not dejire to fee it propagated throughout the World, it is a certain Sign, that we are not fufficiently concern*d for the Honour of Christ, nor duly fenfible of the Grcatnefs of the Gofpel Promifes, and of the inefti- mable Value of a Soul. 1 1 I ! II. Fro m hence it follows, that altho' our own Families, Relations, Neighbours, and Country, claim the firft Place in our Care and Concern for Religion, yet no Di- ftance of Place, how great foever it be, is a fufficient Excufe from Endeavouring to Pro- pagate the Gofpel, where we fee there is Need, and a fit Opportunity offers, and it is fairly in our Power. On the contrary, the more remote we are from the Country to which we do at any Time extend our Care and Afliftance, the greater Teftimony it is of our Zeal for the Glory of God, and the Salvation of Souls. Ill, to Serious Chripms^&cc, ^55 I . l■'.^' J III. But, 'Tbirdfyy The Souls for which I am now pleading, have a more particular Claim to our Regard, as they are truly a Part of our own Nation, and live under the fame Government with our felves, and, which is more, contribute much by their Labour to the Support of our Government, and the Increafe of the Trade and Wealth of this Kingdom. In the following Letter, the Mailers in the Plantations are put in Mind of the great Profit arifing to them from the Labour of the Negroes, as one Argument why they (hould be willing to be at fome Expence in inftrudting them. And the fame Argument extends, in Proportion to this Nation in general, which is greatly benefited by their Labour j and more par- ticularly does it extend to fuch among us, who either have Polfeflions in thofe Parts, or have been enrich'd by Trading to them. IV. As the Progrefs which one finglc Catechifl makes, may be very great, when it is his whole Employment ; fo every Perfon who contributes to the Maintenance of that one, has the Satisfadtion to think that he is an Inftrument under G o d, of Converting and Saving a proportionable Number of Souls. Some few Seeds cafl into this Ground, - ^ and I 2S6 2fp» of London J Addrefi, &c. and watered by the Blefling of G o d, may produce an Increafe exceieding great, and will be nofmall Addition to our Happinefs in Heaven. But whatever the Siiccefs be, fuch fincere Teftimonies of a Defire to fee the Gofpei propagated, and fuch Charitable Endeavours for the Salvation of our Fellow- Creatures, will moft afTuredly find a very plentiful Reward from the Hands of G o d. And may it pleafe Him to open the Hearts of Chriflians, and to difpofe them, according to their feveral Abilities, to aflift in carrying on this good Work, for the Glory of his Name, and the Eternal Wel- fare of fo many Thoufand Souls. LETTER ,&c. o D, may eat, and jpinefs in be, fuch fee the haritable Fellow- i a very if G o D. 257 . Yt- '", Open the fe them, to affift for the nal Wel- *>l'4^^4y»'fr«Hy»»4 ^4HNy4y»'»»»444HHN^ iTTER L E T T E R L Tbe Sifiop rf IjOVdou*! Letter tot be Mafters and MiftrefTes of Families in the Engliih Plantations abroad; Ex" horting tbem to encourage and promote the InjflruSion (f their Negroes in the Cbrifiian Faith. TH E Care of the Plantations abroad being committed to the Bi(hop of London as to Religious Affairs ; I have thought it my Duty to make par- ticular Enquiries into the State of Religion in thofe Parts, and to learn, among other Things, what Numbers of Slaves are em- ployed within the feveral Governments, and what Means are ufed for their Inftru- dion in the Chriftian Faith. I find the Numbers are prodigioufly great ; and am not a little troubled, to obferve how fmall a Progrefs has been made in a Chriftian Country, towards the delivering thofe poor Creatures from the Pagan Darknels S and 258 2/». of London J Letter and Superflition in which they were bred, and the making them Partakers of the Light of the Gofpel, and of the Bleflings and Benefits belonging to it. And, which is yet more to be lamented, I find there has not only been very little Progrefs made in the Work, but that all Attempts towards it have been by too many induftrioufly difcouraged and hindred ; partly, by mag- nifying the Difficulties of the Work beyond what they really are ; and partly, by mi- flaken Suggeftions of the Change which Baptifm would make in the Condition of the Negroesy to the Lofs and Difadvantage of their Mailers. -.1 I, As to the Difiiculties ; it may be pleaded^ That the Negroes are grown Per- Jbns when they come over, and that hav- ing been accuilomed to the Pagan Rite? and Idolatries of their own Country, they are prejudiced againfl all other Religions, and more particularly againft the Chri- flian, as forbidding all that Licentioufnefs which is ufually pradifed among the Hea- thens. But if this were a good Argument againft attempting the Converfion of Ne- groes, it would follow, that the Gofpel is never to be further propagated than it is at prefent, and that no Endeavours are to to Majleri^of Families^ Sec. to be ufed for the Converfion of Heathens, at any Time, or in any Country whatfo- ever ; becaufe all Heathens have been ac- cuftomed to Pagan Rites and Idolatries, and to fuch vicious and licentious Living as the Chriftian Religion forbids. But yet, G o D be thank'd, Heathens have been con- verted, and Chriftianity propagated, in all Ages, and almoft all Countries, through the Zeal and Diligence of pious and good Men J and this, without the Help of Mi- racles. And if the prefent Age be as zea.- lous and diligent in purfuing the proper Means of Converfion, wq have no Reafon to doubt, but that the Divine Affiftance is, and will be, the fame in all Ages. 259 But a farther Difficulty is, that they are utter Strangers to our Language, and we to theirs ; and the Gift of Tpngues be- ing now ceafed, there is no Means left of inftruding them in the Dodrines of the Chriftian Religion. And this, I own, is a real Difficulty, as long as it continues, and as far as it reaches. But, if I am rightly informed, many of the Negroes, who are grown Perfons when they come over, do of themfelves attain fo much of our Lan- guage, as enables them to underftand, and to be underftood, in Things which con- S 2 cern ii 260 "Bp. of London s Letter cern the ordinary Bufinefs of Life ; and they who can go fo far of their own ac- cord, might doubtlefs be carried much far- ther, if proper Methods and Endeavours were ufed to bring them to a competent Knowledge of our Language, with a pious View to the inftrudting them in the Do- ctrines of our Religion. At leaft, fome of them, who are more capable and more fe- rious than the reft, might b** eafily inftru- dted both in our Language and Religion, and then be made ufe of to convey Inftru- dtion to the reft in their own Language. And this, one would hope, may be done with great Eafe, wherever there is a hearty and fmcere Zeal for the Work. But whatever Difficulties there may be in inftrudting thofe who are grown-up be- fore they are brought over : there are not the like Difficulties in the Cafe of their Children, who are born and bred in our Plantations, who have never been ac- cuftomed to Pagan Rites and Superftitions, and who may eafily be train'd up, like all other Children, to any Language what- foever, and particularly to our own 5 if the making them good Chriftians be fin- cerely the Defire and Intention of thofe, who have the Property in them, and the Government over them* But i.i to Makers of Families^ &C. 26 1 But fuppofing the Difficulties to be much greater than I imagine j they arc not fuch as render the Work iwpojlible, fo as to leave no Hope of any Degree of Succefs 5 and nothing lefs than an Impojji- bility of doing any good at all, can war- rant our giving over and laying afide all Means and Endeavours, where the Pro- pagation of the Gofpel, and the faving of Souls, are immediately concerned. ; ^ Many Undertakings look far more im- pradticable before Trial, than they are after- wards found to be in Experience ; efpc- cially, where there is not a good Heart to go about them: And it is frequently obferved, that fmall Beginnings, when pur- fued with Refolution, are attended with great and furprizing Succefs. But in no Cafe is the Succefs more great and fur- prizing, than when good Men engage in theCaufe of God and Religion, out of a juft Senfe of the ineftimable Value of a Soul, and in a full and well-grounded Af- furance that their honeft Defigns and En- deavours for the promoting Religion, will be fupported by a fpecial Bleffing from God. S3 I am 1 I 262 %. of LondonV Letter I am loath to think fo hardly of any Chrijlian Mafter, as to fuppofe that he can deliberately hinder his Negroes from being inftruded in the Chriftian Faith ; or, which is the fame Thing, that he can, upon fober and mature Confideration of the Cafe, fi- nally refolve to deny them the Me am and Opportunities of Inftrudion : Much lefs may I believe, that he can, after he has ferioufly weigh'd this Matter, permit them to labour on the Lord's Day j and leafl of all, that he can put them under a kind of Necejity of labouring on that Day, to pro- vide themfelves with the Conveniencies of Life } fmce our Religion fo plainly teaches us. That God has given one Day in feven to be a Day of Reft, not only to Man, but to the Beafts ; That it is a Day which is appointed by Him for the Improvement of the Soul, as well as the Refrefhment of the Body ; and that it is a Duty incum- bent upon Mafters, to take Care that all Perfons, who are under their Government, keep this Day holy, and employ it to the pious and wife Purpofes, for which God, our great Lord and Mafter, intended it. Nor can I think fo hardly of any Miffio- nary, who fhall be defired by the Mafter pp direft and afiill in the Inftrudion of his Ne- to Majiert of Families, 6cc. 2^3 Negroes (either on that Day, or on any other, when he fliall be more at Leifure,) as to fuppole that he will not embrace fuch Invitation with the utmoft Readinefs and Chearfulnefs, and give all the Help that is fairly confillent with the neceffary Duties of his Function, as a Parochial Minifter. If it be faid, That no Time can be fpared from the daily Labour and Employment of the Negroes, to inflrudt them in the Chri- flian Religion; this is in Effed to fay, that no Confideration of propagating the Golpel of God, or Saving the Souls of Men, is to make the leaji Abatement from the temporal Profit ol the Mailers; and that God cannot, or will not, make up the little they may lofe in that Way, by blefling and profpering their Undertakings by Sea and Land, as ajufl Reward of their Zeal for his Glory, and the Salvation of Mens Souls. In this Cafe, I may well rea- fon as St. Panl does in a Cafe not unlike it, that if they make you Partakers of their temporal Things (of their Strength and Spi- rits, and even of their Offspring) you ought to make them Partakers of your fpiritual Things, tho' it (hould abate fomewhat from the Profit which you might otherwife re- ceive from their Labours. And confider- ' '^ S 4 ing 2^4 %* oflxmdovLS Letter ing the Greatnefs of the Profit that is re^- ccived from their Labours, it might be hop'd that all Chriftian Maflcrs, thofc efpe- cially who are poffefs'd of confiderable Num- bers, (hould alfo be at fome fmall Expence in providing for the Inftrudion of thofe poor Creatures ; and that others, whofe Numbers are lefs, and who dwell in the fame Neighbourhood, (hould join in the Expence of a common Teacher, for the J^egroes belonging to them. The Society for Propagating the Gofpel in Foreign Parts, are fufficiently fenfible of the great Importance and Neceflity of fuch an efta- blidied and regular Provifion for the In- ftrudion of the Negroes, and earneftly wifli and pray, that it may pleafe God to put it into the Hearts of good Chriftians, to enable them to aflift in the Work, by feafonabic Contributions for that End ; but at prefent their Fund does fcarce en- able them to anfwer the many Demands of Miffionaries, for the Performance of Divine Service in the poorer Settlements, which are not in a Condition to maintain them at their own Charge. «• ■ 11. But it is further pleaded, That the Inftrudtion of Heathens in the Chriftian Faith; is* in order to their Baptifni -, and • ' that m tor ter It is rd- ight be )fc efpe- cNum- Expence f thofc whofe in the the the Society Foreign e great m efta- the In- irneftly e God riftians, )rk, by End ; ce en- ;mands nee of ments, lintain lat the riftian \ and that to Majiers of Families, Sec. that not only the I'ime to be allowed for Inftrudting them, would be an Abatement from the Profits of their Labour, but alfo that the Baptizing them when inftru6ted, would deilroy both the Property which the Mafters have in them as Slaves bought with their Money, and the Right of felling them again at Pleafure ; and that the ma- king them Chriftians, only makes them lefs diligent, and more ungovernable. T o which it may be very truly reply *d. That Chriftianity, and the embracing of the Gofpel, does not make the leaft Al- teration in Civil Property, or in any of the Duties which belong to Civil Rela- tions ; but in all thefe Refpedts, it continues Perfons juft in the fame State as it found them. The Freedom which Chriftianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the. Dominion of Mens Lufts and Paflions and inordinate Delires j but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptized, and becom- ing Chriftians, makes no manner of Change in it : As St. Paul has exprefly told us, I Cor, vii. 20. where he is fpeaking directly to this very Point, Let every Man abide in the fame Callings wherein he was called -, and 8^5 if- 266 Sjp. of LondonV Letter and at the 24*^ Verfe, Lci every Man wherein he is called, therein abide with God, And fo far is Chriftianity from dif- charging Men from the DutJo of the Sta- tion and Condition in which it found them, that it lays them under flronger Obligations to perfornfi thofe Duties with the greateft Diligence and Fidelity, not only from the Fear of Men, but from a Senfe of Duty to Gou, and the Belief and Expectation of a future Account. So that to fay,\ that Chriftianity tends to make Men lefsVob- fervant of their Duty in any Refpedt, is a Reproach that it is very far from deferv- ing > and a ReprojJch, that is confuted by the whole Tenor cA the Gofpel Precepts, which inculcate u_.. r. all, and .particu- larly upon Servants (many of whom were then in the Condition of Slaves) a faith- ful and diligent Difcharge of the Duties belonging to their feveral Stations, out of Confcience towards God: And it is alfo confuted by our own Reafon, which tells us how much more forcible and conftant the Reftraint of Confcience is, than the Reftraint of Fear j and laft of all, it is confuted by Experience, which teaches us the great Value of thofe Servants who are truly Religious, compared with thofe who have no Senfe of Religion. "-■■ As t9 M^irjt :*^ I am aware, that in the Pla'ntationS) where the Parifhes are of fo large Extent, the Care and Labour of the Parochial Minifters muft be great i but yet I per- fuade my felf, that many vacant Hours may be fpared from the other Paftoral Duties, to be beftow'd on this; and I cannot doubt of the Readinefs of every Mifiionary in his own Parifli, to promote and further a Work fo charitable to the Souls of Men, and fo agreeable to the gr6it End and Defign of his Miflion. As to thofe Minifters who have Ne- groes of their own ; I cannot but efteem it their indifpenfable Duty to ufe their beft Endeavours to inftruA them in the Chriftian Religion, in order to their being baptized; both becaufe fuch Negroes are their proper and immediate Care, and becaufe it is in vain to hope that other Matters and Miftrefles will exert them- felves in this Work, if they fee it wholly T neg. 274 "Bp. of London s Letter negleded, or but coldly purlued, in the Families of the Clergy. So that any De- gree of Negledt on your Part, in the In- ftrudion of your own Negroes, would not only be the with-holding from them the ineflimable Benefits of Chriflianity, but would evidently tend to the obftrudting and defeating the ivhole Dejign in every other Family. I would alfo hope, that the School- rnajiers in the feveral Pari(hes, part of whofe Bufinefs it is to inftrudt Youth in the Principles of Chriflianity, might con- tribute fomewhat towards the carrying on this Work ; by being ready fb beftow upon it fome of their Leifure Time, and efpecially on the Lord's-Day, when both they and the Negroes are mofl at Liberty, and the Clergy are taken up with the publick Duties of their Function. And tho' the ^. {THance they give to this pious Defign, fhould not meet with any Re- ward from Men, yet their Comfort may be, that it is the Work of G o d, and will afluredly be rewarded by himj and the lefs they are obliged to this on Account of any Reward they receive from Men^ the greater will their Reward be from the Hands of God. I muft therefore in- . . . treat to the Mi§onaries^ Scc. treat you to recommend it to them in my Name, and to difpofe them by all proper Arguments and Perfuafions to turn their Thought ferioufly to it, and to be always ready to offer and lend their Affift- ance, at their Leifure Hours. And fo, not doubting of your ready and zealous Concurrence in promoting this important Work, and earneflly beg- ging a Bleffing from God upon this and all your other Paftoral Labours, I remain , Your affectionate Friend i-*^ 275 and Brother, May ij>. 1727. Edm. London. T 2 CHAP. 27^ Ji tempts to Convert '■ CHAP. XL Tie Iroquois border on New- York and New-England. Tie Genius of the Northern Indians, and the Condition of their Countries. TZ'^E^r/^Bellamont, Governor of New- York, reprefents the Want of Mijftonaries for inftruSiing the Iroquois. Jn Order of the Q^en and Council for their InftruSiion. The Society fend the Reverend Mr* Thoroughgood Moor MiJJionary to them. His Labours; they prove firuitlefs ,• he embarks for Eng- land i he and all the Ship's Crew are loji at Sea* Four Sachems or Indian Kin^s arrive in England j they defire a Miffto- nary to inftrufi them and their Teople : They return home. Mr. Andrews is fent MiJJionary to the Mohocks. J Fort is built among them. Th^ refufe to let their Children learn Englifh. Some Chapters of the Sible^ and part of our Common-Trayery tranflated into thelr)Ai- an-Iroquois Z,^«5«^- ^v^'J^rTand quoiiy or five Nations, once a very Ncw-En^^i-md. numerous People j they deferved the firft Regard of the Englifi upon two Accounts ; thtydiove i coniiderable Trade with the Emjijh In Beaver at Albany y and were the Frontier Nations againft the French Set- tjenitrjc qx ^i^hcuh^ and the Canada Indians their Allies ;; who iij Conjundion have fe- veral T imes ruvag/.a ttie F: ontiers of NeW" Etjgiand dnd Ncifj-lork.. it was neceflary, upoii a civil as well as religious Account, that the Society Ihould cnipioy their firft La- bours in endeavouring their Converfion, and accordingly they did fend the firft Mif- fionaries aiiiong tLefe People. Before I give an Accov»ai of the Society's Endea- vours, it is neceflary to make fome Re- m.'.rks Oil the Genius of the Northern A- mericansy and on the Condition of the Countries they inhabited. 2. It is firft tobe obferved, that the Genius TheGcniusof and Temper of the Northern Americans is ^^''"^ Iroquois. T 3 very &^S 1 Attempts to Convert very different from thofe of the Southtrn Continent, The once mighty Empires of TheNorth-J- ^^xico and Peru were filled with a Peo- mericafi inM- p\Q civilizcd, which Uved a fettled Life, ans meer Bar- ^ ,, . . Marians. Duilt Itately Cities and Towns, cultivated , J the Ground, had a Pagan Religion, ufed the Arts of Government, and Difciplinc of - War, and did certainly appear not only capable, but willing to receive all the more curious Arts the Europea?is could teach them. But, on the contrary, the Northern Americans bordering on the Bri~ tijh Colonies were utterly Barbarian^ nei- ther built Cities, nor cultivated the Ground, knew nothing of Morality or the common Decencies of human Life, were divided into numerous fmall Tribes, wandred na- ked in vafl Defarts and Woods, leading a Beflial Life, in perpetual Wars with each other, carried on with extream Cruelty, fuflaining themfelves with hunting, fifhing, and the fpontaneous Produds of the Earth. In fhort, as different from the Mexicans or Peruvians, as the Hords of Siberia and Canary are from the Elegance and Ci- vility of the Southern Nations of Europe, All their 3- Be SIDES, the Countty was asrude as wlidenSs'' ^^^^ Inhabitants. When the Englijh, per- ^vithout any haps prompted by the vaft Treafures the '^°^^"^" .; Spaniards the Iroquois Indians. Spaniards had got in Mexico and Peru^ made their Settlements in North-Americay they were difappointed in their Hopes. They found no fuch CouKtries as the Spa- ntards had, no Mines of Gold or Silver, no rich Cities like Mexico; but a naked and rude Country and People : The En- gliJJj took nothing from the Natives but an uncultivated Soil : nay, that too they purchafed, tho' for a Trifle, yet that was a Price, fmce the Natives would not turn it to its proper Ufe, and till it. All the Riches drawn from thefe Lands now by the Englijh, is owing chiefly to their own honeft Labour, fcarce any Thing to that of the Natives j whereas the Wealth of the Spaniards^ is to this Day dug out of the Mines, at the Expence of the Sweat and Blood of the nuferable Natives and Ne- groes. It is very probable, had the Providence of God directed ColumbtiSy and the Spanijh Fleet, to the Northern-America^ the Poverty of the Inhabitants would have fecured the Country. The Spaniards would not have thought it worth while to make any Settle- ments, where nothing was to be got without their own Labour ; but the immenfe Trea- furcs of the Southern World did fo amaze them, that they refolved to get them, (and T 4 they 279 \ \ .. 28o Jttempts to Comert they did get them) at the Price of any Wickedneis. Several of 4. ANOTHER Matter to be here remarked trierhy°de^ is, that many of thefe Countries, on which folate. the Englijh fettled, were not only unculti- "l'^ vated, but almoft defolate, with very few Inhabitants, when the Englijh took Pof- feffion. Efpecially New-England (now called) was almoft an abandoned Country. The New-England Hiftorian * writes thus : " ^he Summer after the Blazing Star " (whoje Motion in the Heavens was from •* Eaft to Weft, pointing out to the Sons of Meny the Progrefs of the glorious Gofpel of CHRIST) even about the Tear 16 18, a little before the Removal of the Church of CHRIS f to New-England, as the ancient Indians report ^ there befel a great Mortality among them, the great eji Difcafcs fall " that cver the Memory of Father to Son idi before the " took Noticc of J chiefy defolating thofe Etigiub c».mc « Places wheretheEngWihaJterward planted the County of Pockanochy AgilTawang, // was almoji wholly deferted, infomuch that the Neighbour Indians did abandon thofe Places for Fear of Death, feeing " more Weft and by South, ohjerving that " the Eaft and by Northern Parts were " mofi Vid. Hifl, of 'Sevii'Enghnd, printed 1654. p» 16. c< cc it <( cc cc tliere. cc cc cc cc the Iroquois InJians. 28 1 (( cc « cc ^^ mofl fmit with the Contagion, STife^ Abor- ** ginny Men^ conjijiing of Mattachufetts, " Whippanaps, ^;?^ Tarratines, were greatly " weakened, and more efpecially the three «' Kingdoms or Saggamore Ships of the " Mattachufetts, who were before this Mor- xhe/;»^;tf;»jof tality mo/l populous, havinjr under them New England r T< 1.J ^ *. C (now calkd) Jeven Dukedoms, or petty oaggamores. f^^gpt away, " The Nianticks and Narraganfetts, '^^^^^^^^^'''^ " before this I'ime were but of little Note, " yet were they now much increafed by fuch " as fed thither for Fear of Death, The Pecods (who retained the Name of a Warlike People, till afterwards conquered " by the Englifli) were alfo Jmitten at this " Time, Their Dijeafe being a fore Con- «* fumption, fweeping away whole Families, " chiefly young Men and Children, the 'very " Seeds of Increafe, Their Powwowes, " which are their DoSiors, working partly " by Charm, partly by Medicine, were much " amazed to fee their Wigwams (Houfes) lie full of dead Corpfes, and now that nei^ ther Squantam nor Abomocho could help, " which are their good and bad God, By " this Means, CHRIST not only " made Room for his People to plant, but " alfo tamed the cruel Hearts of thefe bar- " barous Indians, infomuch that half an " Handful of his People, landing not long " after (C {< 282 \ ♦ «, The Indians bordering on North ScSwtb- Carolina de- ftroyed bv Wars and Dif- cafes. Attempts to Omen " after in Plymouth Plantation, found little *^ Refijlance. .. . . .. T H E Indians of South and North-Caro- lina, were fwept away by Difcafes and inteftine Wars. Mx.jirchdale, a Perfon of Honour, who had been Governor of Carolina, and was a Proprietary, writes thus of them: " Providence was vifible " in thinning the Indians, to make Room " for the Englijh,, There were two po- tent Nations, the Wejioes and the Sa- vannas, who broke out into an unufual " Civil War, before the Englijh arrived ; " and from many Thoufands, reduced " themfelves to a fmall Number. The " moft cruel of them, the Wejioes, were " driven out of the Province ; and the Savannas continued good Friends and ufeful Neighbours to the Englijh. It pleafedGoD alfo to fend unufual Sick- " neffes among them, as the Small Pox, " (^c, the Pemlico Indians in North-Ca- rolina were lately fwept away by a Pe- ftilence j and the Coramine by a War. « Were id the is and /^- It Sick- Pox, a Pe- l^ar. Swedes Con- '. Fen hafed of 28j the JxoqaoiS Indiaas. of the Natives Ground, and they never had any Wars with them. Thefc Indians alfo fell into unufual Diftempers and died, perhaps it may be ctfnfidered as a Provi- dential Viiltation, at lead a judicious Hl- ftorian tells us, an Indian War Captain, ^ rematbble in his Sicknefs, made this ferious Expoilu- /Si, as he lation with himfelf *, " What is the M^ /- ^'^ ^y^"^- ter with Us Indians, that we are thus Jtck in our own Airy and theje Strangers " wein "Tis as if they were fent hither " to inherit our Lands in our Steads -, but the Reafon is plain, they love the Great GOD, and we do not J* A Refle ^ " cu/es cc ** -••^•^ • The Archbifliop was then much in- difpofed, and confined to his Houfe with the Gout, and therefore fignified to the Secretary of the Society, to call a Com- mittee to meet at Lambeth. A Committee The Society jnet, and it was agreed there, and after- Miflionariestowardby the Society at a general Meeting, \hQ Iroquois, jj^^j. j^Q Miflionaries fhould be fent to the Mohock and Oncydes Indians ; with a Salary of 150 /. Sterling each, together with an Interpreter and Schoolmafler, to teach the young Indians, and this Opinion Queen y^iVA'fi^^s humbly laid before the Queen : Her orders a FortMajefty was farther pleafed to dired that the Mohocls^^oxx. ihould be built among xh^ Mohocks, Caftle. ^^ ^j^g Government's Expence, with a Chapel and a Manfion Houfe for the Minifter, for his greater Conveniency and Security, and that the religious Offices might be per- formed with due Decency. A Fort was foon after built 150 Feet fquare, and garrifoned with 20 Soldiers and an Offi- cer, and a Houfe and Chapel compleated. The Reverend Mr. Andrews was appointed Miflionary, and Mr. Claufen, who had been feveral Years employed as Interpreter by the Government of New-Tork, in Tranf- adlions with the Indians, was received as Interpreter to Mr. Andrews, and Mr. Oli'ver was 295 the IroqaolS Indians. was made Schoolmafler. Mr. Andrews was particularly directed by the Society to ule all poflible Means to perfuade the Indiam to let their Children learn Englijhy and the Schoolmafter was to make it his whole Bufinefs to teach them. The Society were now in good Hopes this Attempt would prove fuccefsful, lince Her Mcjefty was lb gracioufly pleafed to provide for the Security of the Miflionary by building a Fort juft by the Mohocks Caftle, to which the Men and Children might eafily refort to be inftruded. And the Sachems^ the The s^jchms chief Perfons of thefe People, had been in^^^J^'^coVi'^ England, received many Marks of Royal tries. Favour, had been Eye-witnefles of the Greatnefs of the Nation, had been nobly entertained here, and carried home to their own Countries fafely and honourably, and had themfelves alfo delired their People might be inftrudted in the Chriftian Faith. 9. Mr. Andrews arrived at Albany in AVThe Reverend V ember 17 12. the Sachems who had been Miflionary *^ carried home before he went from £«-^^^ Mohocks gland, were convened by Order of the Go- vernor of New-Tork, to meet Mr. ^/^-f/^f'"''^^" drews and the Commiflioners for Indian Affairs, at Albany j in order to give a pub- lick Authority and Sandion to Mr. An- U 4 drews's 25^ Attempts to Cmoert drews\ Miflion, and that the Sachems might receive him their Minifter, with greater Solemnity. The Sachems came to Albany, met the Commiffioners for Indian Affairs, and Mr. Andrews ; the Commiffioners made a long Speech to the SachemSy reminding them how graci- ous Her Majefty was in building a Fort, and fending a Minifter to them; put them in Mirid how earneftly they had re- quefted it, and fct forth what Advan- tages tL^y and their Children would reap, by being taught our Religion and Learn- ing. A Letter from the Archbifhop of Canterbury was delivered to them, and af- terwards read to them in Indian, by Mr. Claufen, the Interpreter of the Province. Some of the Sachems made Speeches, and returned Thanks to the Qjijeen, expreifed ^ht Sachems^ great Satisfadion in having a Minifter receive Mr. fent them, and received Mr. -^Wr^wi as their Miniiler.fuch, and promifed him all civil and kind Ufage J the whole Affair was tr an faded with much Ceremony. The Sachems re- turned home, Mr. Andrews ftaid fome Time at Albany to refreih himfelf ; foon after he went up to the Fort, 200 Miles from New-Tork, accompanied by Robert I Levinjion Efq; the Mayor of Albany, Cap- ^ij,n Matthews, Mr* Sfrooman of ScheneSiady, the the IrCX|aois Indians] 297 the Reverend Mr. Barclay^ and feveral other Gentlemen j he was prefently vifited by a great many Indians, Men, Women, and Children, who faluted him with A- bandance of Joy, and bad him welcome to their County. . , The Caftle or chief Town of thefe A Defcn- Mohocks is neighbouring to the Queen's JJ^]'^^^®/ q^ Fort, confifting of about 50 Wigwams^^^^^^mxaxxx or Houfes. Thefe Wigwams are Hurts *^ ^"^' msde of Marts and Bark of Trees put to- gether, with Poles about three or four Yards high. The Mohocks Cloathing is a fhort Coat like a Mantle, made of a Blan- kett or Bear's Skin, their Bed is a Matt or Skin laid on the Ground. They paint and greafe themfelves very much with Bear's Fat clarified ; they cut the H.Mr off from one Side of their Heads, and tye up fome of that on the other Side, in Knotts, on the Crown, with Feathers. The Men are very flothful, the Women very labo- rious, meer Servants to their Husbands ; they carry all the Burthens, fetch the Ve- nifon home their Husbands kill, (the Men are too lazy to bring it,) get in the Wood to burn and drefs it, carry their Children on their Backs in their Rambles, of many hundreds of Miles, hoe the Ground, and plane jl^ Attempts to Convert^ plant all the Indian Corn that is raifcd. The Language of this People is very diffi- cult, their Idea's arc very few, and their Words therefore not many, but as long as Sen- tences, expreffing by a long rumbling Sound, what we do in a fliort Word. There is here no manner of Conveniency of Life for a Miffionary. For four or five Months in the Year, there is fcarce any flirring abroad, byReafon of the extream Coldnefs f the Weather, and the deep Snows that fail; and in Summer-time, the Flies and Muf- cheto's are almoft intolerable, and the Rattlefnakes very dangerous. The neareil Place of getting any Provifions, is at Sche- neBady, 24 Miles diftant, or from Albany 44 Miles off. The Road to thefe Places is for the moft Part only a (mall, rough IndianV2sh^ thro' vail Woods, where riding is very dangerous, by Reafon of the Road being in ma \y Places flopped with fallen Trees, Roots, Stones and Holes, befides many high and fteep Hills, and deep Swamps or Boggs in the Way. There was nothing defirable to be feen, the Face of the Earth rude and uncultivated, like the wild Inha- bitants, no Pleafure to be got but that of doing Good to the miferable Natives. These raifed. diffi. their isSen- ound, s here for a in the broad, f the fail; Muf- id the nearell t Sche- Albany Places rough riding 2 Road fallen befides wamps lothing I Earth i Inha- that of Fi E s E the Iroquois Indians. 299 Tntst were the Circumftances of the Place and People whither Mr. Andremos was appointed; and notwithftanding all thcfe Inconveniencics, he reiided there, and invited the Indians to come to him 5 many came, he ufed to difcourfe very much with them, in- ftruding them in the chief Articles of Faith, and giving them ihort general Accounts of our Religion. This was done by the Help of Mr. Clattfen^ who always attended and interpreted to the Indians, Mr. Claufen had been formerly taken Prifoner by the Indians^ lived long among them, and un- derftood their Language fufficiently. Mr. Andrews ufed to make fhort Accounts of the Chriftian Dodtrines, and fome Hiftorical Parts of the Bible, particularly the Crea- tion of the World, and Miracles of our Lord : The Interpreter ufed to read them to the Indians y and Divine Service ufed to be performed in Englijh to the Soldiers in the Garrifon. The Schoolmafter Mr. Oliver opened his School. The Indians at firft fent many of their Children, he be- gun to teach them Englijh, the Parents obftinately refufed to have them taught Enzlilh, All poflible Endeavours were ufed The inJians ■* will not let to perfuade them ; they flill perfifted. Mr. their Children Andrews fent this Account to the Society, ^'^'^'■" ^''-^^i^'' and rather than quite break with the Indians, the 300 Attempts to Convert \ the Schoolmafter and Interpreter began to teach the Children a little in Indian. The Society were forced to comply with the Indians Obftinacy. They procured an Im- preflion of Hornbooks and Primmcrs in Indian for the Children, fent them great Numbers, as alfo Leathern Inkhorns, Pen- knives, a Qujintity of Paper of feveral Sorts, and feveral other little NecefTaries. The Children were now taught in Indian^ and were treated with great Kindnefs, no Corredtion dared to be ufed, for the Parents were fo fond of their Children, and valued Learning fo little, they thought it not worth gaining, at the leaft difpleafing of their Children. To engage them farther to learn, Mr. Andrews ufed to give the Children who came to School, Viduals, and fome fmall Utenfils for their Parents. The Children ufed often to come for the Sake of getting Viduals j for the Indians are frequently drove to great Extremities, Z^e*tfugJu"in^^ Account of their making little or no the Indian Provifion beforehand. The Children had nguage. ^ goQ^ natural Capacity, and an Aptnefs for Learning. Many of them begun to read, and fome to write. This Method of giving them Viduals engaged the Parents to fend them^ for fome Time, to School. In the Iroquois Indians. 301 I N the mean Time, Mr. Andrews pro- ceeded to inftrudt the grown Indians by m^. Andretos Help of the Interpreter, in fome of thc'"^'"^' .^'^^ chief Articles of Faith and Rules of J^ife-byHeipofan Divine Service was conftantly performed on i^^tcrprcier. Sundays and Holidays in Englijh to the Soldiers > and fuch Indians as underflood any Englijh^ frequently attended in the Chapel. The Chapel was very decently adorned. Queen Anne had given a hand<- fome Furniture for the Communion-Table. The Imperial Arms of England, painted on Canvafs, were fixed up in the Chapel. Archbi(hop 'Tenifon gave 12 large Bibles very finely bound for the Ufe of the Chapels j with painted Tables, containing the Creed, Lord's-Praycr, and Ten Com- * mandments. Mr. Andrews was very civil to all the Indians who came to hear him, ufed frequently to entertain them at his Houfe, and gave them Provifions home when they wanted very much, and that they often did. The Society, fince they could by no Means prevail on the Indi» ans to learn Eaglijh, neither young nor old, laboured to get fome good Tranllations made, of Parts of the Scripture at leaft, into the Indian Language ; tho' exceeding improper to convey a due Idea of the Chri. 302 / Attempts to Cpnvert Chriftian Dodrines j as being willing by all Methods of Compliance, to gain fomething upon them. The Society were very much affifted in this, by Mr. Freeman, a very wor- thy Cahiniji Minifler. He had been five Years Minifter 2ii ScheneBadyy to a Dutch Congregation, and had been employed by the Earl of Bellamont in the Year 1700, to convert the Indians, He had a good Know- ledge of the Dialed of the M?Z' Of ;^j, which is underftood by all the Iroquois, who reach near 400 Miles beyond Albany, The So- ciety applied to him for any proper Papers wrote in that Language, which he might have. He acquainted the Society, that he had tranflated into Indian the Morning and Evening Prayer of our Liturgy, the whole The Society Gofpel of St. Matthew, the three firft Portions of Chapters of Genejis, feveral Chapters of mfftedinto"^^^^"-^' feveral Pfalms, many Portions of the Mohock the Scripture relating the Birth, Paiflion, ang«ag«' Refurredtion, and Afcenfign of our Lord ; and feveral Chapters of the ijl Epiftle to the Corinthians, particularly the i^th Chapter, proving the Refurredtion of the Dead. He very frankly gave the Society a Copy of thefe Tranflations, which were fent to Mr. Andrews for his Help, and they were a great Help to him. He ufed frequently to read fome of thefe to the Indians^ and they . could the Iroquois Indians. 303 could comprehend well enough by his read- ing. But the Society were defirous fome Part of the Scripture might be printed in Indian^ and the Copies given to the /«- diansy and they taught at leafl to read that. Accordingly the iMorning and Evening .JJ;;^^^^; Prayer, the Litany, the Church-Catechifm, /» /w'^j- Family-Prayers, and feveral Chapters of the Old and New Teflament, w "e printed at NeW'Tork ; the Copies were fent to Mr. Andrews, and he gave them to fuch of the Indians as knew any Thing of Letters. He had Hopes now of fome Succefs. in his Miflion J feveral of the Women, and fome Men, began to lead more orderly Lives ; they were inftrudted and retained well in their Memory, what the chief Articles of our Faith are, and Rules of Life; a good Number was baptized, and particular Accounts were fent regularly to the So- ciety. Mr. Andrews was willing to try what Good he could do among another Nation of the Indians, he travelled to the Caftle of the Onydans, loo Miles diftant from the Mohocks, the Country all the Way was a vaft Wildernefs of Wood, and the Road thro' it a narrow Indian Path. ^^' -Andrews He was forced to carry all Neceflaries withon'idan ira- him, and at Night to lie upon a Bear's^*"'* Skin, When he arrived at the Caflle, he was IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 !f 1^ U£ 2.2 1.1 KiotDgraphic Sciences Corporation 23 WCST MAIN STRECT WnSTIR.N.Y. 14SS0 (716)872-4503 > g|d4 Attempts to Cimjert ^as viiited by more than loo People, who feemed all glad to fee him; he read feverai Papers to them, flaid fome Time with them, and after Inflrudtion baptized fe- verai, whofe Names have been tranfmitted to the Society. Mr. Andrews afterwards .v.; .returned to the Mobocks, his Place of Re- fidefice. The ittdians In a (hort Time, the Indians grew weary SuSSZ** of Inftrudtion, the Men grown,would go out in Bodies a hunting for feverai Months, and > forget .all they had been taught : and the young Boys when they grew up, were taken out by their Fathers to hunt, and fo lofl all they had got. This roving Life ut- terly deftroyed all the Miilionary and • Schoolmafl:er*s Labours. But befides thia Difficulty, and the natural Averfenefs of the Indians to Learning, two Misfortunes happened, which created a Jealouiie, and afterwards a Hatred in the Indians agamft all the Englijh^ as well as againft their Re- several Jea-ligion. Some Jefuits, Emiifaries from ^^- a^hStheii^^^^^ among the Canada Indians adjoining »/»iil^thejc-to the Iroquois^ had infufed into the Minds wanlfidiJm.of thofe People, that the Englijh did not intend by building a Fort among the Irth quois, to teach them their Religion, but the Iroquois Indians. to cut them all oiF, at a proper Jundlure : And that a Box had been found acciden- tally, left by the Englijh, when they at- tempted Rebeck, containing Papers which difcovered this Intention of the Englijh* The Canada Indians believed this idle Story, and fpread it among all the Iroquois, This ftirred up fome Jealoufie 5 but a far- ther Misfortune did quite fet the Indians againft the Englijh, Some of the ^ufca- raro Indianiy who had fled from North- Carolina after the War there with the En- glijhy came and fettled in the Country of the OnontageSj one of the Iroquois Nations, bor- dering on the Mohocks, Thefe People be- ing enraged at the Englijh, ftirred up the Onontages againft them, telling them they had been moft barbaroufly ufed, and drove out of their Country, and that the Englip watched only for an Opportunity to ex- tirpate them too. The other Indians were too eafily perfuaded to believe every thing the I'ufcararo Indians told them 5 fo that when any of thefe People came by the Mo- hocks Caftle, and the Qu?en*s Fort, in their Way to Albany, to trade and buy themfelves NecefTaries j they ufed only to mock at Mr. Andrews when he would offer to talk to them about Religion} and when he proffered X to 305 «»;;*•: ti ^OS^ Atmpts to Comm to go to their Abode, they abfolutely forbad him. In a little Time the old Mohocks to be inftruft- Jr^wj, and the Children came no more to School. Mr, j4ndrews wrote the Society Word of the ill Succefs of his Miffion, « tho* he had fpared no Pains, that the hopeful Beginnings proved of no EfFe£t at laft, ** and that he began to defpair of convert- ** ing the Indians, cd. cc C( The Society found now, from feveral ^d\hSu-^^^^^^^^» that theMiffion among the In- hovas (iMek. Jians proved fruitlefss that it was not pofiible to teach them the Chriflian Reli- gion, before they were in fome Degree ci- vilized ; and they found the following Dif- ficulties did wholly hinder that. No Means could be found to engage the wWchiSdS^«^^*^»^ ^o lead a fettled Life, to apply edtheConver-themfelves to Cultivate the Ground, to fionofthc/-j^^.j^ Towns, and to raife Cattle. They would ftill rove thro' their vaft Woods many Hundreds of Miles, depend for their Subfiftance upon the Game they could kill; they would eat all Sorts of Carrion, and in fome long Rambles, when by various Ac- cidents they could get no Game, would kill and roquois* the IfiO^aOis Im&ms. and eat one another, even their Wives, and that without any Concern or Remorfe. Generally half of a Hord or Nation went out a Hunting or a Warring upon a neiglv- bouring Nation together, and in thefe Ex- peditions forgot all the little they had learned, and at their Return were as meer Savages as ever. They could not be dit- fuaded from taking Wives, and leaving them at their Pleafure; this not only hindred Religion from being fixed among them, but was the Caufe that a great many aged Men and Women perifhed miferably, as having no one to take any Care of them. They would in their Wars ufe the greateft Barbarities, and deftroy all rhe Prifoners they could take by fuch extreme Tortures, it would move too' much Horror in th^ Reader to ha^e them related. n 1:^1 (02 It is true, they were very fond of their Children, but they perverted even fo good a Principle 5 they would not oblige them to learn any manual Art, or our Language^ but let them live a lazy, beftial Life. Nay, fome of the young Children, who have by Chance fallen into the Englijh Hands, and lived in Families, been taught our Language, learnt a decent Behaviour, and known X 2 fome- ^ 308 .1 jhtempts to Cmoert fomething of Tillage, or a Handycraft, when they have grown up, have run wild again, have thrown off their Cloaths, and chofe rather to ramble naked almofl in the Woods with their own People, than to live a fober and fettled Life. i.; -.1. viw ~^Ti('^- j'i'it -Tl But the greateft Obflrudion to their being civilized, was their Greedinefs of ftrong Liquors, efpecially Rum, and the fatal Effect Drunkennefs hath upon them. When they drink, they will never leave off till they have gone to the greateft Excefs, and in this Condition, they are moil wretched Objeds: they grow quite mad, burn their own little Hutts, mur- der their Wives or Children, or one an- other: So that their Wives are forced to hide their Guns or Hatchets, and them- felves too, for Fear of Mifchief. And if the Men thro* this Excefs fall into any Sicknefs, they perifli miferably, as having no Methods of helping themfelves by Phy- lick or otherwife. It is indeed Matter of great Wonder, that thefe wretched People, who have lived joining to the Englijh Settlements fo ma- ny Years, and cannot but obferve that -i^ -. the the Iroquois Indians. 309 the Englijhy by Agriculture, raife Pro- vifions out of a imall Spot of Ground, to fupport in Plenty great Numbers of People; whereas they by their Hunting, cannot get a wretched Subfiflance out of all their Wildernefles of feveral Hundred Leagues in Extent \ (hould ilill refufe to till their Ground, or learn any manual Art ; (hould flill live a beflial Life, infen- iible of Shame or Glory. It is true, the Englijh have taken from them exceeding large Countries, yet this, far from being a Prejudice, would be a vaft Advantage to them, if they would but learn the Englijh Language, Arts, and Induftry. They have ilill an immenfe Extent of Land, part of which, if duly cultivated, is able to maintain many Millions of People more than they are. It might have been imagined the Sachems^ thofe petty Kings, who were in England in the late Queen's Time, fhould have been fo ftrongly affeded with feeing the Grandeur, Pleafure, and Plenty of this Nation, that when they came to their own Countries, they would have tried to reduce their Peo- ple to a polite Life j would have employed their whole Power to expel that rude Bar- barifm, and introduce Arts, Manners, and Religion. But the contrary happened, they X 3 funk \f.,'> <»V'""' f? ;;;r ? 1 ' J* funk themfelves into their old brutal Life, and tho' they had feen this great City, when they came to their own Woods, they were all Savages again. « Mr. Andrews wrote feveral Accounts lAr.AndrmsfCiox^ivi 1718, that all his Labours proved count of thefeinefFeaptiz- at our nee of People avail'd their : Con- 3eyond onder- f our rd and icounts Feach- m bap- ple, at p that Church m gave idding, again 07, he viiited SIS r^ New^Engta&d. vifited them again, and Colonel Heatbeote was plcafed to go again with him. They now found the People much more earneft ^,^^ Mepen- to have the Church Worihip fettled, and < • ^" r\,- t( «C c< «c ;\ 'HH' Oppoution. The Church BuT thcfe Methods which the Indepen- nwre zeK ^^"^^ ^^^^> ^ere fo far from hindring the ^rou|h this People from reforting to the Church Ser- vice, that ftill greater Numbers camej and other Towns fent and invited Mr. Mtiirfon to vifit them. Particularly the People o£ Fairfield, requefted him to come, and he went to them. The Independents refufed him and the People the Ufe of the Meeting-houle, tho' on a Week-day. But a Gentleman, the chief Perfon in the Town, invited them to his Houfe, a great Congregation met there, and he baptized a large Number. Mr. Muirfon made fe- vci;al Journies up and down this Colony, and cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc !\ ames Mr. the /i//&f c/^ gavc this wXr b^ehind CharaiEter of him a little before he died, him. « jfc is truly very v^rell qualified for the Service, having a very happy Way of Preaching, and conlidering his Years, v^ronderfuUy good at Argument, and his " Converfation is without Blemifli." Not- withflanding his Death, many confiderable Towns in New-England, were zealous to have Minifters of the Church of England i particularly Marblehead, the fecond Town in the whole Country, Braintree, Newbury^ Naraganfett, and feveral others. cc cc « r^.iXft \ 3.T H E Church-Wardens of Rhode-IJlandy wrote to the Bifhop of London, and to the Society, in the Year 1702, declaring their early Zeal, that tho* they had not affem- bled themfelves, to worfliip God* after the manner of the Church of England above four Years, they had built a hand- fome Church. The Society refolved to fend a Miflionary hither, both on Account of their being the firfV, and alfo a nume- rous People, fettled on a flourifhing Ifland. The Reverend Mr. Honeyman was ap- pointed to New*£ogktid. pointed in 1704. He dtfcharged the Dw-Ti>«Re«'«««« Mr. Hoifty man tics of his Mimon with great Dihgence.fcnt Miffiona- Tho* the IQand was full of Perfons of mafty "^ *^'^"- Perfuafions, cfpecially fakers, the Gover- nor himfelf being fuch, yet by his prUddnt Behaviour he gave Offence to none, and gained many to the Church. He continued there till the Year 1708, and then came to iMl.ii/ England upon his own private Aitairs, but returned foon to his Cure again. There were three little Towns on the Continent, Freetown, I'tverton, and Littk-Compton^ which had requefted a Miffionary of the Society; Mr. Honeyman was diretted to vifit them by Turns on Week>-days, till they could be fupplied with a Minifter. Mr. Honeyman frequently croffed over to them, and preached to them in a Meeting- ^^^^JPJ^f^j" houfe, which he obtained the Ufe of, and ccs. which was commodioufly lituate in the Center of the three Towns. He faid, the People at firft, tho* very ignorant and rude in religious matters, were yet very grave and attentive at Divine Worfhip. He per- formed this laborious Duty feveral Years. In the Year 17 12, a Miffionary was fent to thefe three Towns : Mr. Honeyman be- gan to have a little more Leifure 5 but he was zealous to promote the Work he had engaged in, and fet up a Ledture, and preached aao Li^^vnai^i^i fern preached once a Fortnight at Port/mouthy a Town at the fartheft End of the Ifland, and foon found very great Encouragenient to continue it, not any Reward, but an un- expected and fupriiing large Audience of reople of many^Pf^rfualipns. • I Uv.Honeyman A BOUT this Time he rcprefcnted alfo reprefents the very earneftly to the Society, the Want of a a Miffionwy at Miffionary at a Town called Providenceyzhout Frrjidence. ^o Miles diftant from Newport^ a Place very confiderable for the Number of its Inhabitants : Thro* the Want of Inflrudti-"^ on, the People were become quite rude, iand void of all Knowledge in Religion ; yet they were of a good and teachable Difpo- iition. He vilitcd this Place, and preached here to the greateft Numbec of People, that he ever had together fmce he came to America. He writes thus : " There is a " great Profpedt of fettling a Church here ; " and if the Society will fend a Miffionary to a People fo much in Want, and yet fodefirous of receiving ^, the Gofpel 5 per- haps this might prove one of the greateft A& |)f Charity they have even done yet". A little while after he writes thus: " I have preached there again, " and the Number of People is fo in- " creafed, that no Houfe there could hold " them. cc 7 thither. " Affiftance I can. The Society upon this Letter, appointed in the next Year (1723,) the Reverend Mr. P/gf•: 4. Having juft mentioned Providence^^^' /*/;?*/*« where Mr. JSb/;^;'/;!^^ had gathered ^ Con- p^ilnd, gregation, and Mr. Pigot was appoinced Miflionary ; it may be proper to give next an Account of the Miilion there. The Peo- ple, as deferibed above, were negligent of all Religion till about the Year 1722; the very beft were fuch as called themfelves Baptifts^ or ^akers^ but it was feared many were Gortonians or Deifis. This Town- A great Body (hip is 20 Miles fquare, and the prefent^^i^p^lSi.*" Number of Inhabitants is about 4000. Out of all thefe, there was a fmall Number, who in the Year 1722, feriouily reflcdting on that irreligious State wherein they lived -, refolved to endeavour to build a Church, get a Minifter, and to live like Chrifiians. They began to gather Contributions among themfelves; they got 250/. they foUicited their Friends about them; they got 200/. from Rhode-IJlandi 100/. from Bafion^ and ao/. from other Places: With this Sum, and about 200/. more, which they bor-They get ^rowcd, they raifcd on St. Barnabas Day, ^i^Stild 1722, a Timber Building for a Church, a Church. ff being 62 Feet in Length, 41 in Breadth, and 26 high. The chief Contributor was Y 2 Colonel 324 Mi^onmu fent Colonel Jofefb Whittle ^ who gave loo/. The Reverend Mr. Honeyman gave lo/. and Mr. Mackfparrany another of the Society's Miflionaries, gave 5 /. The Peo- ple live difperfed over this large Town- ihip i they are induflrious, employed chiefly in Husbandry, and Handy-crafts, tho* v'ery lately they have begun to en- ter upon Foreign Trade and Navigati- on. Mr. Pigoty upon his fir ft coming here, had not much above 100 attending Divine Worfhips however, the Numbers The Church- increafed, and he baptized in lefs than two cra?e\a«. Years fix grown Perfons, and the Com- municants were feventeen. And in the Year 1727, he baptized eleven Children, three ^ grown Perfons, and the Communicants were 44. The Reader remarks this Mif- fion is but juft begun, and the Church- Members are daily increafing. ^; r The People of 5- T H E People of Naraganfett County Naraganfeit made Application to the Bifhop of London^ anddefirea^ about the Year 1707, for a Miflionary, Miniftcr. ^nd built a Church foon after by the vo- luntary Contributions of the Inhabitants. It is a Timber Building, and commodioufly fituated for thofe who generally attend Di- vine Service. It is diftant from Pro*u/W^w^, the neareft Churchy 27 Miles. This County .■•■•- ■* . ' IS ...'ij 325 ^0 New^^nglaad is above 30 Miles long, and between 12 and 13 broad. There are near 4000 Inhabi- tants, including about 200 Negroes, Their Bufmefs is Husbandry, their Farms are large, fo that the Farmers feem rather Graders. They live at great Diftances from each other, and improve their Lands in breeding Horfes, Cattle, and Sheep, and carry the greateft Supply of Provifions to Bofton Market. The People who appeared at firft de- iirous of the Church of England Worfhip, were but few, but they were very earned: for it. In the Year 17 17, the Society ap- pointed the Reverend Mr. Guy to that TheReverend Place; he arrived there foon after, anden-Miffioiuryhl- tred upon his Miflion with much Zeal.^*"^* The Members of the Church of £«- gland received him with many Tokens of Joy. They prefently provided him with a convenient Houfe, and becaufe it was at fome Diftance from the Church, they pre- fented him with a Horfe j and many other Ways (hewed him Marks of their Favour. He was very well refpedted by the People, and feveral who lived regardlefs of all Re- ligion before he came, began to be conftant Attendants at Divine Worfliip. He refided ?LiNaraganfett (otherwife called -K/»j/?ow;z) imi YS and ThcRevercnd Mr ran fionary hither. ind vifited by'Tiirns the Pebple of Fnu iown^ TivertM^ and Littie-'Campton, and ^ fomc other Placet. This MifHbn was vcrf gent in hisDu- laborious, the Pkces far diftant, and the S'tove'Ae Weather here chaining fuddenly into fe- Pkce thro'in-vcre Extreaois j Mr. Guy contra€ted Indif- ^ ' pofitions, and found himfelf not able to bear the Fatigue, and was therefore, upon his Requeft, removed to SoutlhCarolina in j?rfSr-'7i9« The Reverend Mr. Honeyman^ in ./ri;.wt^c Vacancy of this Church, vifited the People at Times, and kept them together. The Reverend Mr. Mackfparran was ap- pointed Miffionary there in 1720. In the following Year, he acquainted the Society, that his Congregation, tho* fmall at firft, coniifted then of about 160, with twelve Indian and black Servants ; that he had bap- tized thirty Perfons, fix of them of a grown Age, between eighteen and fifty, the Com- municants were but twelve. But the next Year, the Members of the Church of En^ gland increafed to 260, and he baptized ten grown Perfons, and in the following Year iiftecn grown Perfons deiired and received Baptifm, and all the Church People, young and old, amounted to 300. Mr. Mack'- Jparran continues now in this Miiiion. .^^tt ■ ' ^ m- ^,^~ lir 6. Newbury Church was built in the Year •''^ iK'^^^^ i^^f^nJiff^'Tr^T** 327 Year 171 1. It is a Tlmbar Building, The People at 50 Feet long, aod 3© brood. The Rcvc-aChwX" rend Mr. Lampton w^ the (aft fent Miffio- nary here, but he ftaid not long, having contradcd a bad Sut^ of Health. In thp Year 17 15, the Reverend Mr. Xi^rjj was TheReverend fent thither. His Cpngreg^tion was but mStk)?!^*"^ fmall at firft, the People having lived long ^^^^' in a Difuie of the Sacraments, they ftiil continued n^ligent of them. Mr. Lucas not only by publick Difcourfes advifed them, but alfo vifited them, and ufed his beil Endeavours in private, to convince them of theUfefulnefs and Benefit of both thofe Ordinances. He ufed alfo to go to Kittery^ a neighbouring Place, and preach there; he had a large Congregation, fe- veral Times, near 400 Perfons, who ex- prefTed a mighty Defire to be inftruded in the Principles of the Church of JE«- gland. He baptized here many Chil- dren, and feven grown Perfons, one of which was 50, the other 60 Years old. He dies. Mr. Mr. Lucas died foon after. In the Year Vf^!^"^' 1720, the Reverend Mr. Matthias Plant was appointed Miilionary. He was re- ceived with much Favour and Civility by the People of the Church oi England, He began to difcharge his Minifterial Office with Succefs, many People ihewed a great Y 4 Earneft- fionaiy. ttS M^fiik»ikfiilftM\ The People very kind to Mr. Plant. «c •tvOlsM ). Earneftnefs for the PublicRi Wor(hip, and more continually vrere added to them. They contributed their ufual Ratea very frankly to Mr. Piant, and he was fo fenfible of their Favour in many Refpeds, he makes this grateful Acknowledgement of it to the Society : " I find both my •* People, and others the Inhabitants, very ** civil, and indeed kind' to me, feveral not belonging to my Church, contri- buting fomething to me ; and tho' my *^ Place is reckoned the fmalleft, I muA " confefs, that the Love I have for the " People, and the truly good Will, and " extraordinary Civility and Kindnefs I ** receive from them, makes me to efteem " my Place as inferiour to none." Mr, He continues \ . . v- -kk'/t t.* in this ?Uct Piant contmues now in this Mmion, his withSucccfs. Congregation now amounts to near 200. Some of his Hearers come from Towns 4, 5, or 6 Miles diftant i and their Num- ber is daily increaiing. ^ .| ^,^^. ^ The People 7* Murblehead is a Sea-port, the fecond b^id'ch^^'h'^^^^ in all NeW'Englandy very confider- and defire aablcfor its Number of Inhabitants, for its Commerce, and efpecially for the Fifliery carried on there. A great Number of thefe Per pie were defirous to have the Church of England Service fettled there. In the - '. jii ',.,.. X \ i I ear Minifter. to Mew-Eiigl«Dd. 389 Year 1707, they made Subfcriptions for building a Church, amounting to 416/. they wrote Letters to the Bifhop of Loft' don^ and to the Society, acquainting them with their Defires of having a Minifter of the Church of £;fg^i7;i^/, and declaring their Intentions of building a Church. A hand- fome Church was foon after built, and the ThcRevcrend Reverend Mr. Sbaw was fent Miflionary JJf •«'-"'«' *"«^ there, but he did not continue long. He hut removes wrote Word, he had fallen into many In- °°"" difpofitions, by the Change of Climate, and the Severity of the Seafons fometimes there, and he removed. The Reverend Mr. David Mojfom was fettled there in iji^» Ux. Mojpim He began his Miflion with much Dili- ^^l^^"^ gence; the Number of People attending Divine Worlhip was but fmall at firft^ However, many more conformed daily, and in about two Years, the Number of Communicants was doubled, thirteen grown Perfons had been baptized, and near feventy Infants. The Church 2X Newbury being about this Time vacant by the Death of Mr. Luc as y Mr. Mojfom vifited that People alfo upon their earneft Requeil, preached and adminiilred the Sacrament |o a Congregation of above 160 Perfons. He proceeded with great Diligence in all ^4^^ ■ - - ' Parts nary. JJb e^ Parts of his Duty. In the three following Years, he perfuaded nine grown Perfons to receive Baptifm, and the Number of Com- municants in Marbleheady and from the neighbouring Towns, increafed to about 50. In the Year 1725, he acquainted the So- ciety, that in the foregoing Year, he had re- ceived into the Church five grown Perfons, two Men and three Women, and that fe- vcral other grown Perfons were preparing for Baptifm. He had alfo baptized two Negroesy a Man about 25 Years old, and a Girl about 12 ^ and that a whole Family in Salenty a neighbouring Town, had conform- ed to the Church j (o that upon the whole fucceSuHn his Congregation increafcd confiderably. Mr. his Miffion. Mojfom defired to be removed on Account of fome of his Family Affairs, and Mr. Pigot was removed from Providence to this Place. He hath acquainted the Society, that llnce his Appointment here, that Church hath confiderably increafed, he had baptized 23 grown Perfons, a great many had joined in Communion, and he had reduced many ;/ .,. from a diforderly and loofe, to a more Arid and regular Behaviour, and by his inllruding the Youth in the Principles of Religion, and the Dodrinesof the Church, he had gathered a large Number of Ca- ■'i > - te- Wing >ns to Com- 1 the "50. So- ad re* rfons, at fe* jaring two I, and lily in form- whole r, Mr. untof Pigot Place, t iince hath sed 23 ned in many . more )y his pies of hurch, nf C^' te- tedirmens. Mr. Pi^et cominues now ?, 351 here. ,d*a«^'r 0'>ta!:it'">t{ ■.>• f - "50**' 8. The chief Inhabitants of Brifto!^ ^"^ The People of the Year 1720, wrote very earneft Letters ^''*M. ^^"* to the Biihop o{ London and to the Society, prefaltiy build for aMinifter of the Church oi England^^^^'"'^' and promifed to build a Church. Before they had an Anfwer from the Society, they proceded to get Contributions to build one. Colonel Mackintojh gave the Ground the Church iVands upon, and 200/. Several Gentlemen, iVIembers of the Church at Bofion^ gave 100/. other Gentlemen at Newport on Rbode^Ifland, gave 100/. the neighbouring Towns to Briftol gave a fmall Sum, and the remaining Sum, amount- ing to near 1000/. was contributed by the People of BrtJioL This Place is very pro- per for a Church, Brijlol being the County Town, and fituate in the Center of fix others, fo that the Inhabitants of thofe may refort hither to Divine Worfliip. The Reverend Mr. Or em was fent Miffionary^j^^j^^^^^^ herein 1722. When he arrived here, he Mr. Orm was found the Outfide of the Church and the^'"* ^^~' Steeple only finifhed. The People re- ceived him with great Kindnefs, and there feemed to be a general Difpofition in the Inhabitants, to have the Church of England Wor- Vf^ oS 33^2 Mif^nmesfent Worflilp cftablifhcd here. Tho' theChurch was not floor'd, nor the Walls plaiilered, the People were zealous to have Divine Service performed in it : Which was done» and Forms and Benches were laid in it on Saturday Night for the Auditory ; and a V large Congregation, between 2 and 300 Perfons, came there; not all Inhabitants of ' Brijioly but a great many from Swanfey^ Tiverton, and other neighbouring Towns. In the mean time, Workmen were em- ployed continually upon the Church. Mr. Orem foon after acquainted the Society that it was finiihed, being a handfome Timber Building 60 Feet long, and 40 broad, that the Inhabitants had fpared no Pains in car- rying on the Work, and had expended above 1400/. that Country Money, in compleating it: That there was a very numerous Aflembly that attended Divine Worfhip every Lord's Day, and joined in the Service with the greateft Gravity and Decency imaginable, many of which, before his Coming, were en- tire Strangers to the Liturgy of the Church He is very di- of England, Mr. Orem gained theEfleem and Miflioiu Affedtion of the People very much, and pro- ceded in his Miilion with Succefs. But about a Year after, the Governor of New-Tork, who was acquainted with his Merit, in- vited him to come to New-TorL and oiFered him to NeW'Engiand. Church iftcred. Divine s done, 1 it on and a id 300 ants of wanfey^ Fowns. em« Mr. ty that rimber d, that in car- above bleating lembly Lord's ith the ;inable, ere en- [^hurch smand id pro- t about it, in- offered him mi him a Commiflton of Chaplain to the The Gover- * . 1 -K/t ^ normakcshim King s Forces there, which Mr. Orem ac- chaplain to cepted of. The Society would not W^l^^f' this worthy People, who had expreiied fo hearty an Affedlion for the Church of £«- gland^ want a Minifter. The Reverend Mr. ^^j^^ Reverend JJ/her was appointed Miffionary there in Mr. tz/^^r fuc- the Year following. He hath begun' hisMiOionary. Million with Succefs, much refpedted by his Parifhioners, and very diligent in his Minifterial Office. Eleven grown Perfons have been received into the Church by Baptifm, and the Communicants are in* creafed. He writes, " There is good Rea- fon to expert a numerous Congregation here iii Time, the People, tho* at firfl they were not enough acquainted with " the Dodrines of the Church, yet fince they have had an Opportunity of being better inftrudted, they have, by God's Bleffing, heartily embraced her Commu- nion, and feem to be ftedfaftly grounded in her Faith". The Town, or chief Body of People, living near together, extends about a Mile in Length, and a Quarter in Breadth. The Farmers live at a greater Diftance, fome three, or four Miles off, A Church here feems very neceffary, for He is very di- the very next Church is thirteen Miles di-jJUJl/J'^ ^" ftant^ and it would be very difficult to go there, ^'^/'"y one at Fairfield^ which is eight Miles off,) none Eajiward within 100 Miles, and there is no Church at all, Northward. Stratford lies upon the Sea-Coaft, and diredtly over againft it to the Southward, lies Brookhaven upon Long-IJland, about 20 Miles diftant from Stratford. If there were no Miflionary here, a very great Body of People would be deftitute of the Means of Publick Worfhip. The Towns in this Country lie thick, fcarce any at above ten Miles Diftance, fome not five Miles off each other. Some of thefe Towns alfo, have feveral little Villages belonging to tkcm. Moil of the Towns confift of 2, 3, or 400 Families. Tho* fcarce any of them live contiguous, yet the main Body of the People of a Town, live in near Z Neigh- 338 Mij^narits fent \ Neighbourhoods. The Roads are gene- rally well cleared, and much ufcd. It is a fruitful and thriving Country. Mr. John- fan continues now in this Miffion. i >v«»vi Mn c'r^r"^ lo. T H E Reverend Mr. Carter hath been Mflpnary to appointed lately Miflionary to Fairfield in ConneSficut ; the Society have received Accounts from him, that the People of the Church Communion increafe confide- rably, and that he hath a Profpedt of good Succefs in his Miflion. The Reverend Mr. Miller was alfo appointed Miflionary at Braintree about the fame Time; no particular Accounts of his Labours have yet been tranfmitted from him. Ftiirjield> t ■« II. The Members of the Church Com- munion at Bojion^ the Capital of this Country, and where the Church Service was firft fettled, were now very much increafed ; and in the Year 1722, a- greed to build another Church at BoJlotJ, The Reverend Mr. Miles, Minifter of the Kings-Chapel there, having obferved his Church was much too fmall, called his Congregation together, and reprefente^the Matter to them. They were all unani- mous of Opinion, the prefent Church was ... not to New-England. 33^ not fufficient, and that it was neceflary to build another. They prefently chofe ^ ^, „ , Committee to take in Subfcriptions, for the ;^tBo}ofihmid carrying on of this Work. A handfome^"°^J^^^j^ Church hath been fmce built, and Mr. Cutler appointed MifTionary there. Mr. Cutler was bred in the Independent Way, became a noted Preacher, and was afterwards advanced to be Prefident of 2"^/^-College in New-England j a Station of Credit and Profit. He difcharged the Duties of his Place with Reputation to himfelf, and to the publick Satisfadlion. He continued feveral Years in this Poft ; but began, upon more mature Confidering, to think it his Duty to leave the Inde- pendents, and join in Communion with the Church of England, Several other Independent Teachers, Men of allowed Characters for Virtue and Learning, were of the fame Sentiments. Particularly Mr. Browny Tutor in Tale-CoWtge, Mr. Jobn/on and Mr. JVetmore. Mr. Cutlery Mr. Brown, and Mr. John/on, refolved to conform to the Church of England , tho* at the Lofs of the Preferment they had in the Independent Way ; and accordingly in the Year 1722, at a publick Commence- ment at 21?/c'-College in Neiv-baien, they Z 2 de- 340 ^ Miffionaries fent declared their Conformity to the Church of England, laid down their Preferments, and came to England for Epifcopal Or- ders. ^•'•i The new Church at Bqfton was now building, and all theMembers of the Church of England had a juft Value for thefe Gcn- tlemens Integrity; they thought Mr. Cut- ler had facrificed a very valuable Intereft, to a good Confcicnce, and agreed to chufe him Minifter of their new Church, when it (hould be built. They wrote very earneft Letters to the Bifliop of Lon" don, and to the Society, requefting their Favour to Mr. Cutler, and praying the Biihop of London to licence him to the new Church at Bojion, Th: Society at this Time knew nothing of Mr. Cutler, or the other Gentlemen, but Letters came from the Members of the Church at New- fort, and feveral of the Miflionaries, giving an Account of their leaving the Indepen- dents : They all three received holy Orders, but Mr. Brown died foon after j Mr. Cutler and Mr. John/on, by their Behaviour appeared to deferve the Character brought from abroad. While they were in England, they vilited our Univerlities, and were received by the Vice-Chancel- lor l^re, tney to New-England. ^ 341 lor of each, and the Heads of Houfes, with peculiar Marks of Regard and Eileem. ' Mr. Cutler, the elder Gentleman, had the Degree of DoAor in Divinity, conferred upon him, and Mr. John/on that of Ma- iler of Arts, by both Univerfities. Dr. Cutler foon after went over to X^'^*^^!*'"^"'^ Dr. Cutler fct- New-England to his Church at Bojton. The tkdMiflionary Building was finifhed in a little above apj^^rchat"!!)^ Year : It is a handfome Brick Church, yopn. Feet long, and 50 wide, 35 high, the Walls 2 Feet and an half thick j the Steeple's Area is 24 Feet fquare. As foon as it was fitted to have Divine Service performed in it, a numerous Congregation of People, both from Bojlon, and the neighbouring Towns, attended the Publick Worlhip there, par- ticularly from Cbarlestowfjy which is fepa- rated from Bojion by a confiderable River. At the opening of this Church, the ufual Audience was about 400 Perfons, but they A numerous increafed continually, and now amount tOgf^J^^^ng^^* near 800 commonly. The Members of thisg-^fi®" ^^rc. Church have, in many Refpeds, approved themfelves a worthy People, very devout in xne publick Worfhip, and confcicntious in their Lives and Adtions ; their Children are brought regularly to Baptifm, and the Communicants have lately amounted to Z 3 about 342 Mijionaries fent^ &a about 80. Dr. Cutler hath alfo inftru£ted fcvcral grown Pcrfons in the Duty and Be- nefit of Baptifm, and adminiflred it to them. He continues now in this Miflion. V* jiVi L' ( K J\ ,..*■'? .' The Society have alfo maintained a Schoolmafter for feveral Years at Bqflorty to teach the poor Children to read, write, and cypher, and have lately appointed Mr. D^/- pech to be Schoolmafter at Naraganfett. They have alfo by their MifTionaries diftri- buted above 1 100 Volumes of Books, befides large Numbers of fmall Trads, among the poorer People. The Members of our Com- Twclvc munion have expreffed a hearty Zeal for it, built in this and havc, by voluntary Contributions, built Government. 3^^^^^^ Churches in this Government. ^t-ii '. .' .'• ■.. i- ■: r K ' :-fy I I ' ■ "ff',' CHAP. 343 CHAP. XIII. JJ&^ Society's Method cf Manning Ms T'ruft. T'beir more [fecial Rnlcs and , Orders^ relating to themfehes and to their QjBUcers. , . ;. J t • » t < AFTER the foregoing Relation of the Endeavours of the Society to propagate the Chriftian Religion by their Mi fiionaries abroad j there remains only one Thing more to be done ; namely, to give the Reader an Account of the Society's Man- ner of tranfading Bufmefs at home. This is a Piece of Juftice due to the Publick, they ought to have an authentick and fa- tisfadory x\ccount, how fo great a Truil is managed ; thro' whofe Hands, and after what Manner, the Adminiftration of this Charity pafTes ; how open and unfufpicious the Method of doing Bufinefs is j and how difmterefted the Perfons are, who have the Diredion of it. The Perfons are, The ' Z4 Bi. 544 Special Rules and Orders V . Biihops of England^ fcveral eminent Gen- tlemen and Merchants, and many of the Clergy. They are all fo far from hav- ing any private Intereft in it, that they are the only certain Benefadors to it j for no one is admitted to be a Member, who hath not been a Benefactor, or -who doth not become a Contributor of an Annual Sum, and their Subfcriptions are the chief certain Fund. At every Meeting of the Society, all the Members are Summoned to attend; and the manner of tranfadting all Bufmefs is, by a Majority of Votes j but upon any Debate ariling, the Queftion is de- cided by Balloting. The Society have made feveral By-Lav^^s or Rules for their own Con- duct, that nothing might be done without mature Deliberation, to prevent any Mat- ter of Weight being paffed by themfelves fuddenly, and upon Surprife. I fhall give the Reader their moft material Rule§ in their own Wprd^. ^ . y,ii l' V The Principal Rules in the Charter re- lating to the Management of th|s Truft, are thefe : That the Society meet upon the third Friday in February yearly, between the Hpurs of eight and twielve in the Morning ; :. 'f\i and \ ^,1' of the Society. and they, or the major Part of them that fhall then be prefent, (hall chofe one Prc- fident, one or more Vice-Prefidents, one or more Trcafurers, two or more Auditors, Secretary, and other Officers, for one the Year enfuing, who fliall refpe£tively take an Oath for the due Execution of their refpedive Offices. That if any Officer die, or be removed, the Prefident, or one of the Vice-Prefidents, may Summon the Members to meet at the ufuai Place of the Annual Meeting of the Society, and choofe another in his Place. That the Society meet on the third Friday in every Month, and oftner if Oc- cafion requires, to tranfad the Bufinefs of the Society, and may at any fuch Meet- ing eled Perfons for Members. That no Adt of the Society be valid, unlefs the Prefident, or one of the Vice- Prefidents, and feven other Members, be prefent. . . . • ,\. > _ That at any Meeting on the third FW- day in the Months of November, February, May, and Auguji, yearly, and at no other Meetings, the Society, or the major Part then 34-5 04J( Sfecial Rnles and Orders then prefcnt, may make By-Laws, and exe- cute Lcaics* ^:-.;-i fMi^i^ - j i^^<\(j ii'..( A'^ ,'li 1H>'lf V cnoin 7. ?t.c; ,:f,^; That the Society may depute fuch Pcrfons as they (hall think fit, to take Sub- fcriptions, and colled: Monies contributed for the Purpofcs of the Society. V / » » V > 4 » *» »/ > -^ •> K J-V - * - T H A T the Society {hall yearly give an Account in writing, to the Chancellor, or Keeper of the great Seal, the Chief Juflices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, or any two of them, of all the Monies re- ceived and laid out, and of the Management of the Charities. The principal By-Laws or Rules made by the Society are thefe. 1 / -«, ri->yVi imtt -, f|ii' :j£ '-fu. » I i.. . ■ I . That the Form of the Oath to be ten- dered to all the Officers of the Society, be- fore they be admitted into their refpeftive Offices^ be as follows: * (^ < < ..' * I A. B do Swear that I will faithfully and duly execute the Office of of the Society for the Propagation of the Gofpel in Foreign Parts, according to the bejl of my Judgment, So help me GOD. i.-ii\* That Vi, xf the Sodetjf. H7 That there be a Sermon preached be* fore the Society on the third Friday in every February, and that the Preacher and Place be appointed by the Prcfident, That no Sum or Sums of ^oney ex- ceeding ten Pounds, (excepting yearly Sa- laries to Miffionaries, &c.) be difpofed of at any Meeting, unlefs fourteen Members of the Society be prefent. - -. ' That proper and fignificant Heads of the feveral Orders and Refolutions of the Society, be taken by the Secretary. That the Minutes of the laft Day, and the Minutes of the intermediate Committees, be read before the Society enters upon new Bufinefs. That the Secretary do from time to time, lay before the Lord Archbifhop of Canterburyy and Lord Biihop of London^ Copies of the Minutes taken at the Meet- ings of the Society. ( . , ,j That a Committee of the Society be appointed to receive Propofals that may be . , offered §4.8 Special Rules and Orders offered to them, for the promoting the iDe- iigns of the Society, and to prepare Matters for the Confideration of the Society. • T' t •♦ f^f v>,4 ff!. That fuch Members of the Society as come, or any three of them, be the faid Committee: That the faid Committee meet at the Secretary's Houfc in Warwick- Court, the Monday immediately preceding the General Meeting (and oftner if necefla- ry) at Four in the Afternoon. - That no Motion for Money or Books be originally made or received at the Com- mittee. '>*'.\.-r :-/•'-:!::.,•.■'• - '' ^ ^' —That the Prefident, or ftanding Com- mittee, when five are prefent, may have Power to appoint a Meeting of the So- ciety on extraordinary Occafions. a h 'J cThat no Perfon be admitted a Mem- ber of the Society, till he be propofed at three general Meetings. • . That Eledions of Members, and all other Matters that are put to the Qucflion, be determined by Balloting* v -^xi*» ii^w^v ^ ^ *. hT That a Ai A\ L .•-. of the Society, -^v^^ ^0 That no Perfons be admitted Mem- bers of the Society, unlef$ they confent to fubfcribe fomething Annually for promoting the Defigns of the Society, except fuch as have been Benefactors. ,: That when any Perfor is propofed for a Member of the Society, the Name of the Perfon that propofed him, be entred in the Journal at the fame Time. r T H AT at every Eledtion of Auditors, one of the former Year be always chofen, as an Auditor for the Year enfuing. *♦ That the Accounts of the Society be Audited Yearly in J/7«wT f rj. That every Audit be fairly entred into a Book kept for that purpofe by the Se- cretary, and examined and fubfcribed by the refpedtive Auditors. .. ^ ^ T H A t the Auditors be fummoned within a Month after every Audit, to examine the Audit after it is entred into the Book of Audits, and to iign the fame. ^ry . I ■» That 350 Special Rjules and Orders That the Auditors do yearly direft an Account to be prepared of all Monies re- ceived and laid out, and of the Management and Difpofition thereof 5 and fee that Copies of fuch Account be yearly given, according to their Charter. And that fuch Account be entred into a Book to be kept for that Purpofe. That the Treafurer, or Treafurcrs, ihall be trufted with the Monies of the Society, upon his or their giving fuch Se- curity as the Society (hall approve. That the Auditors fee the Treafurer feal his Bond. That the Auditors in their Reports, enter the Names of all fuch Subfcribers, as have not compleated their Payments to the Qi^arter-day before the Audit j and that the Particulais of the faid Report do al- ways lie on the Table. That all Bencfadions and Entrance Money be regiftred in a Book kept for that purpofe 5 and that at every monthly Meet- ing of the Society, the Treafurer, if prefent, t ihall at l' .V rf the Society, ^^n; ihall charge himfelf under his Hand, in the fame Book, with all fuch Receipts : which Book, at every Audit fhall be laid before the Auditors. la That the Treafurer do always in his Accounts mention the Date of the Order upon which he ads. ' *, ■10. That as foon as the Treafurcr's Ac- counts are audited, the feveral Receipts and Vouchers of Disburfements for the par- ticular Sums in the faid audited Accounts, be delivered up by the Treafurer, to be kept by the Society. { . i ... ; [ V 1 j I . I That the State of the Society's Affairs with regard to their Expences and prefent Ca{h, be laid before the Society at every Quarterly Meeting. ' That the Secretary be always preient at the Audit. That the Secretary keep a Regifter of all the Books allowed to Miflionaries or other Perfons; in which the Miflionary's or other Perfon*s Name, Place of Abode, ' ' and 551 352 Speciat Rules and Orders and the Time when he received the faid Books, are to be entred ; excepting the So- ciety's Anniverfary Sermons, and other fmall Tradts and Papers which are to be given away abroad. That all Letters from Miflionaries or others, of Bufinefs that concerns the So- ciety, be directed to the Secretary of the Society. . v That the Secretary do prepare anAb- ftradt of the moft material Tranfadions of - every Year, which, after it hath been ap- proved cff by the Society, (hall be pub- lifhed at the End of the Anniverfary Ser- mon. vj ■ •.■•■* '■,»»> ' •. . That there be but one Meflenger, and that he be obliged to give fufficient Secu- rity for the Monies he fhall receive on the Society's Account, within one Month at fartheft after his Eledtion into the Office. . ^ That the Meflcnger give Receipts in his own Name, for the Monies he (hall ircceive from the Members ; and that he pay the faid Monies to the Treafurer, ta- king his Receipt for the fame, which fhall be faid So- thcr be :s or So- thc of the Society. be a fufficient Difcharge. **' t : That the Meflcngcr attend the Secre- tary cvtvy Monday^ Wednefday and Friday^ and at fuch other Times, as the Bulinefs of the Society ihall require, and the Secre- tary {hall appoint. 353 TheCONCLVSIOU TH E three principal Articles pro- pofed to be treated of here, being now gone through; namely, the Occafion for Eftabliftiing this Society, the Succe/s of the Miflionaries abroad, and the Ma^ nagement of this Truft at home : May we not upon the whole juftly think there hath appeared a peculiar Hand of Pro- vidence in guiding and profpering this good Work ; when we refledt, that this Society hath, by the Help of a meer Providential Income, arifing from unfore- feen Donations and Legacies, together with the Subfcriptions of their own Mem- bers, been able to carry on a Work which feems to require a certain publick Revenue A a for ^H The Conclufion* for its Support. The Succefs of the So-* ciety's Labours hath exceeded their firft Hopes. The Church of £;2^to^/ hath been by Law eftabliflied in fome Colonies; in others, numerous Congregations of People have been gathered, who have had the Be- nefit of the Adminiftration of G o d's Word and Sacraments ; above Sixty Churches have been built, a very great Body of People have been inftrudted j many Schools have been opened for the training up of Chil- dren and Youth in the Knowledge of the Chriftian Faith, and with convenient Learn- ing ; and above Eight Thoufand Volumes of Books, beiides above One Hundred Thou- fand fmall Tracts, of Devotion and In- ftrudtion, have been difperfed ^mong the Inhabitants. :a: '.■o>;-i .Wa.«V. -'^ 'v^-',v-?T ili:Vr^!f In Juftice and Honour to the Colonies it muft be remarked here, how much they deferved this Help of their Countrymen. Great Numbers of the moft worthy Per- fons in the richer Colonies (hewed a very earned and fincere Zeal to have the Church of England fettled among them 5 nay, in fome Colonies, during their unfettled State, many poor Inhabitants, who hadfcarce built themfelves Houfes, contributed towards ' . ^ build- ,;.;l^ Per- 'The Conclujion. building Churches. They have been li- beral in their Poverty ; and that Providence which hath in fo early a Seafon difpofed them to be a Religious People, feems by that to defign them hereafter to be a great and flouriihing People. The Propagation of the Gofpel, the Ipreading of the Chriftian Faith, and fet- tling of the Church of England in the Co- lonies, containing now a great Body of People, is plainly a Work of fo great Ex- cellency, it needs no Words to recommend it to a Chriftian. Efpecially if it be far- ther conlidered, that the numerous Pofte- rity of the prefent Inhabitants, will derive their Knowledge of the true Chriftian Faith, from the Labours of this Society i when rhofe vaft Tradts in America^ now Vaft Defarts and Wildcrnefles, may. Ages here- after, become cultivated and fruitful Coun- tries, covered with Cities and Towns, and filled with Nations of Chriftians. 355 In Gratitude to the Memory of the Founder of this Society, King WILLIAM the Third, it may not be improper to conclude this Treatife, with remarking to the Reader, the Ercdting of this Corpo- ration, g^ The Omcli^m. ration, was among the laft Publick Aaions of his Hcroick Life. After having rcf- cued the Proteftant Religion in Europe^ and faved the Church of England here, He did by this laft A£t, as it were, bequeath it to his American Subjc6ts, as the moft valuable Legacy, and greatcft Blefling. J i T -i> •-'jj :\ ;;j. : . .. J.iJ IJ FINIS. r^a ' .i) cA D^i i\ u > "J - J <1, ' ^ . 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