[356] Messrs. Guy, Millichamp, Roe, and Orr, are totally unknown to fame. Except for this incident in the life of Whitefield, their names would have been forgotten.
[357] "Answer to the Rev. Mr. Garden's Letters to the Rev. Mr. Whitefield; with an Appendix concerning Mr. Garden's Treatment of Mr. Whitefield. By A. Crosswell. Boston, 1741."
[358] Nashville Christian Advocate, March 4, 1871.
[359] Whitefield's Journal. First edition.
[360] "An extract of the Rev. John Wesley's Journal from August 12, 1738, to November 1, 1739. No. III."
[361] No doubt the reference here is to Wesley's remarkable confessions, in the Journal afore-mentioned, under the dates of October 14, and December 16, 1738.
[362] The Rev. Nathaniel Clap was now seventy-two years of age. He died in 1745.
[363] The name of the northern states of the North American Union, namely, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
[364] Wakeley's "Anecdotes of Whitefield," p. 142.
[365] Josiah Willard was the son of the Rev. Samuel Willard, minister in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College. In 1717, King George the First appointed him Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts, an office which he held for thirty-nine years. He was also a judge of the probate court, and a member of the Council. He died in 1756, aged 75.