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^ ot to intrude any longer on your Valuable pages , wishing you the greatest prosperity , I humbly sub . scribe myself , A Liberal Christian-.
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Biographical Particulars . Sir , The manuscript of Mr . Thomp * son ' s ( mentioned p * 202 ) is prefaced with a letter to Dr . Wilkinson , then a Daventrv student .
It has maps of the different counties , with a circle , in red ink , round every place where there is . a congregation of dissenters , I think the letter speaks of the book
as a gift to Dr . W . who ( I sup * pose by Mr . T ' s . desire ) placed it in the library at . Daventry : it is now most probably at Wymond-¦ ley ,
I believe Dr . Latham ( mentioned p . 205 ) was a Presbyterian minister at Sunderland , * and married Mr . Bennetts daughter . Dr . Newcome ( so he spelt his name ) was not a clergyman . His father was vicar of Hackney , his
brother Bishop of St . Asaph , and his son Dean of Rochester . I have been told that the dignity of Doctor was conferred on-hirn by the English University in consequence of the Scotch University ' s having done the same honour to his friend Professor Ward .
QUERCUS . P-S . I have the sermons which Dr . Latham published . , They are supplementary to the Christian Oratory , and , I believe , scarce .
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George Whitfield a Slave-Holder . April , 17 , 1811 . Sin , " The History of the Abolition ^ t he African Slave Trade / ' by Mp Clarks ^ n , is on a subject- so
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important and interesting , trrat one cannot help wishing every statement it contains to be as accurate as possible . There is however , a representation of the
opinions and conduct of George Whitfield , respecting Negro slavery , which may be corrected on the best authority , that of Mr . Whitfield himself .
Mr . C . ( u 1 82 . ) quotes a letter very humanely addressed by Whitfield in 1739 , " to the inhabitants of . Maryland , Virginia , and North , and South Carolina / ' urging them
in consequence of his personal observations , to a relaxation of the excessive labours , and more attention to the accomodation ^ of their slaves . In this letter he thus expresses himself , as to the purchase of Negroes . t 6 Whether jt be lawful for Christians to buy slaves , and thereby encourage the
nations from whom they are bought , to be at perpetual war with each other , I shall not take upon me to determine . " Mr . Clarkson appears to have been satisfied , probably from this passage , that Whitfield could not have purchased Negroes for his Orphan House in Georgia , relates , ( i . 171 . ) that soon after
his death , they who succeeded him bought slaves , and those in unusual numbers , to extend the rice and indigo plantations , belonging to the College / ' Mr . C . goes on to describe the benevolent Benezet
as expostulating with the Countess of Huntingdon on this subject . Yet these practices of purchasing Negroes and enlarging their numbers , for an extended cultivation , were actually those of Mr . Whitfield himself . I have beforfe me ( printed , London , 176 # ) " A I&tteftb hisExcellency , Governor
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Gcorge Whitfield a Slave-Holder . 285
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/29/
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