534 APPENDIX. — NOTE F. 



would be some years, in all Probability, before they could clear that debt. The 

 Society were desirous this good Disposition of the People should not be disap- 

 pointed, and in 1718, appointed the Reverend Mr. Wayman their Missionary at 

 Oxford and Radnor. *************** The inhabitants of Ox- 

 ford purchased a House, Orchard and 63 acres of Land, for the use and Habita- 

 tion of the minister ; and the People of Radnor haye obliged themselyes to 

 contribute 40£, Proclamation mone}', of that Country, yearly, towards the sup- 

 port of a Minister to preach to them in Welsh, their Native Language; because 

 many of them do not understand English. ******" 



The following memoranda were extracted from " The Journal of the travels 

 of the Reverend George Keith, A. M.* from New Hampshire to Caratuck on the 

 continent of North America.'' 



" Sunday, January 24 — 1702 [1703. N. S.] I preached at Philadelphia on Mat- 

 thew, 5. 17, both in the forenoon and afternoon ; Mr. Evans, the Minister of Phi- 

 ladelphia, having that day been at Chester, in Pennsylvania, to accompany Mr. 

 Talbot who was to preach the first sermon in the church after it was built, 

 (p. 59.) 



" Feb. 7. Sunday, I preached at Chester in Pennsylvania in the new Church, 

 on Mat. 16. 18. 



" Feb. 9. Tuesday, I preached a second sermon on the same text at Coward 

 [Concord] in Pennsylvania, at the house of John Hanon [Hannum.] 



" Feb 11. I preached a third Sermon on that text at the house of Thomas Powell 

 in Chester county , both these men, John Hanon [Hannum] and his wife and 

 Thomas Powell and his wife, had been Quakers, but have become members of 

 the Church, with divers others of their neighbours. 



" Feb. 12. I had a dispute with Mr. Killingworth, an Anabaptist preacher at 

 the house of Thomas Powell before a great Auditory * * *. This dispute 

 was about the manner of baptism — ' whether infants of believers are proper sub- 

 jects of Baptism,' ordination, &c. 



"August 2, 1703. I came to Vpland, alias Chester, by Delaware river, Mr. 

 Talbot having gone before me to preach there August 1. 



" August 3. I preached in the Church at Chester, a second Sermon on Titus 

 2 — 11, 12, 13, 14, and had a considerable Auditory: We were kindly enter- 

 tained at the house of Jasper Yeates there." — (p. 73.) 



"Sunday, April 9, 1704. I preached at Chester in Pennsylvania on John, 4. 

 24, being my last sermon there. — (p. 80.) 



Keith's journal was published in London, 1706. He enumerates five Church 

 of England congregations in Pennsylvania and Delaware, " who are supplied 

 with Ministers and have convenient Churches." St. Paul's is the only one so 

 circumstanced in Chester county. 



• Mr. Keith is the same person who was formerly a preacher in the Society of Friends, and 

 after having created a division in that society was disowned as a member. He returned to Eng- 

 land, became an Episcopalian, took orders in the Church, and now came back to America as a 

 missionary of the Society, for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts. 



