[543] London, 1779. There were editions in Philad., 1780; York, 1830; and the book makes vol. v. of the Friends’ Library, Philad., 1841. Sabin (vii. 28,825) gives it as earlier printed with Some brief remarks on sundry important subjects, London, 1764, 1765; Dublin, 1765; London, 1768; Philad., 1781; London, 1805.
These books do not add much to our knowledge of other than the emotional experiences prevalent among this sect at this period. The Journals of John Woolman reveal the beginnings of the anti-slavery agitation among his people. The journals have passed through numerous editions, and John G. Whittier added an introduction to an edition in 1871 (Boston). Cf. Allibone, iii. 2,834.
[544] An Account of Two Missionary Voyages by the Appointment of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, etc., by Thomas Thompson, A. M., Vicar of Reculver in Kent (London, 1758).
For the history of the Episcopal Church in the middle colonies during the eighteenth century, see Perry’s Amer. Episc. Church, i. chapters 9, 11, 12, 13; and for the non-juring bishops, p. 541. Cf. De Costa’s introduction to Bishop White’s Memoirs of the Prot. Episc. Church, p. xxxii. A statement of the condition of the church in New York in 1704-5 is in the Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii. 74.
[545] Sec Crit. Essay of chap. vi.
[546] Brinley, ii. 3,073; Stevens, Hist. Coll., ii. no. 336.
[547] Muller, Books on America, 1872, no. 1,211; 1877, no. 2,903: Brinley, Catal., ii. no. 3,093. His book is called Getrouw Verhaal van den waren toestant der meest Herderloze Gemeentens in Pensylvanien, etc. (Amsterdam, 1751.)
[548] Stevens, Bibl. Geog., no. 268; Tuckerman’s America and her Commentators, p. 274; Sabin, i. no. 3,868. This traveller must not be confounded with William Bartram, the son, whose travels belong to a period forty years later.
[549] Chap. viii.
[550] Ante, p. 83. There is a chapter on the modes of travel of this time in Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia (vol. iii.).