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Title: An Historical account of the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts : containing their foundation, proceedings, and the success of their missionaries in the British colonies, to the year 1728
Year: 1730 (1730s)
Authors: Humphreys, David, 1689-1740
Subjects: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) Missions -- North America
Publisher: London : Printed by Joseph Downing
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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HAR 144 Mijfionaries fent CHAR VI. Penfylvania fettled at firji by Swedes andDutch j a mry confiderabk Number ofQuakers go over from England thither•The Reverend Mr. Evans feiit to Phila-dclphia, by ^ifloop Compton. A verylarge Cortgregation at Philadelphia. Se-veral Mijfionaries fent to Penfylvania^Their Labours and Succefs. FifteenChurches built in this Colony by voluntaryContributions. No Salaries fettled on* the Minijlers^ but the People contributeliberally toward their Support. I. 1 ^Enfyhania^ with the three lower W^ Counties, extends in length near 300 Miles, and in breadth above 200, watered with that noble Stream the Delaware, navigable 300 Miles at leaft, in fmall Veffels. It was fettled by People cf feveral Eiiropeaii Nations, by Swedes and (om^ Dutch firft, afterwards by the £;^^///^ gaf?of tr ^^^ F-^^ fhe firft Englijh Settlers here />.;?^/hither. y^^^Q Quakers, above 2000 of which, went over from England at once, with Mr Pen » ■IIIIIWM II .,r, .11. ^u.i.jajixVT^
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to Penfylvania. 145 Pen the Proprietary j but fince that time,great Numbers of Perfons of other Prin-ciples in Religion, have fettled themfelvesthere ^ not to avoid any Violence at home,but to improve their Fortunes in thofeParts. The Englip were much the moftnumerous Inhabitants, and ^akerijm theprevailing Opinion. Mr. George Keithyv^ho refided here, fays, according to thebeft Computation he could make, above1500 Men and Women ^lakers, uled tocome to their yearly Meetings, at Philadel^phia^ from the adjoining Country, and fromEajl and )FeJi Jerfies, in the Year 1689. But foon after, in the Year 1691, therearofe a Breach betv^een a Party of ^^-kers who joined, with Mr. Keith, in oppo-fing fome of their Errors, (efpecially theirNotion of the Sufficiency of the Lightwithin every Man to Salvation, withoutany thing elfe,) and another Party thatjoined with Mr. Thomas Lloyd, then De-puty Governor of the Country, and agreat Preacher among the ^takers. Uponthis Breach, all the Meetings in the

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