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the People in their errors, and furnish them with arguments against the Truth ; 

 whereas in the houses of the Church Peojile, few or no hoolcs were to be seen. 

 Upon which the Society has since sent Quantities of bibles, Common Praj'ers 

 and Doctrinal Tracts to be dispersed among the People. However the Society 

 did not continue Mr. Ross at Chester, tho he behaved himself entirely to their 

 satisfaction, but directed him to remove to New Castle, where he was first ap- 

 pointed ; and sent to Chester, the Reverend Mr. Humphreys their Missionary. 

 He used great Diligence in the serving all parts of his cure, and gained the Love 

 and Esteem of his Parishoners. There were at that time but very few Missionaries 

 in that Province, and being ot)liged to divide themselves among 11 or 12 Con- 

 gregations, they had more tlian Employ suflicient. The Church at Chester con- 

 tinued in a flourishing condition during Mr. Humphrey's Residence. He used to 

 preach once a month at Chichester, a town of some note, where the people had 

 built a convenient Chapel, upon his persuasion and promise to attend them once 

 a month. It is distant four miles from Chester, and there is a Legacy left by 

 Mr. Jeremiah CoUett to the Minister at Chester, to preach four times a year there. 

 This Chapel is very convenient for aged People Youth and Servants, (who can- 

 not go so far as Chester,) to come to hear Divine Service. Mr. Humphreys had 

 a congregation, generally, of about 150 people. He used also once a month, to 

 visit the small neighboring town of Concord, where he had a good number of 

 people for his Hearers ; who have since for the more decent performance of 

 Divine Service, a little Church built. 



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" Oxford and Radnor, two Welsh settlements, were first visited by Mr. Evans 

 from Philadelphia ; and the People having been Members of the Church of Eng- 

 land, when they were transplanted from Wales hither, were desirous of having 

 that form of worship fixed among them again. By his occasional Sermons, and 

 the visits of other Clergymen, the People of Oxford were encouraged to build a 

 neat and convenient Church. The Congregation consisted chiefly of the younger 

 People, and the whole town composed of about 20 families ; they not only built a 

 Church, but subscribed also 20£ a year to their minister, in money and country 

 produce. The people of Radnor also petitioned for a Minister : and the Society 

 appointed the Reverend Mr. Club Missionary to Oxford and Radnor, two Towns 

 being about 20 miles distant from each other. He arrived there in 1714. The 

 inhabitants of both Towns received him with great kindness, as being well 

 known to them before; during his being Schoolmaster at Philadelphia; The 

 people of Radnor especially were very thankful to the Society, for having been 

 pleased to consider their Wants, and renewed their Promise of giving him their 

 best Assistance, and presently after his arrival, heartily engaged to build a hand- 

 some stone Church, which they have since performed. Mr. Club was very ear- 

 nest in all parts of his Ministerial Office, and very successful in his Labours, and 

 happy in engaging the love and Esteem of all his people. But the Cure of these 

 two Churches engaged him in great Fatigue, not only on account of the Distance 

 between the Places, but because of the Extremity of the Weather, whether hot 

 or cold. Mr. Club contracted so many indispositions by his Labours, as put an 

 end to his Life in 1715. The People were so sensible of the Difficulties he under- 

 went, that after his Death, the Church Wardens of the Parish wrote thus to the 

 Society : ' Mr. Club, our late Minister, was the first that undertook the Cure of 

 Oxford and Radnor, and he paid dear for it; for the great Fatigue of riding be- 

 tween the two Churches, in such dismal ways and Weather as we generally have 

 for four Months in the Winter, soon put a period to his life.' 



" Both Towns wrote again to the Society, requesting another Missionary, the 

 Society wrote a Letter exhorting them to consider on some proper means among 

 themselves for making suflicient allowance for a minister to reside constantly 

 among them. In answer to this they assured the Society, 'they were heartily 

 disposed to do their best : but at present their circumstances would not do great 

 things. They were at present but poor Settlers, who had newly settled Land 

 backwards in the Wilderness, and had not yet so much as their own Habitations 

 free from Debts ; that indeed they had built Churches, in hopes of having Minis- 

 ters from the Society ; and had thereby so much incumbered themselves, that it 



