1766 SAMUEL MATHER. Rare Work on Lay-Ordination - Signed by Samuel Mather and with Superb Provenance! Slavery Edward Norris

Edward Norris

Remarkable to have a sitting Prime Minister write on the authenticity of Scripture and take time to answer a pastor regarding some doubts one of his constituents was having

but by our Redeemer's Power China must one day be made to serve him

being a moderate whig

1766 SAMUEL MATHER. Rare Work on Lay-Ordination - Signed by Samuel Mather and with Superb Provenance! Slavery Edward NorrisGeorge Beckwith [1703 1794], author of the present work, was the founding minister of the Third Parish church in Lyme, CT. He was involved with one of the most important legal cases of the era, which also has bearing on the provenance of the current volume. Beckwith himself was a slave owner. In 1756, a slave under Beckwith's "care," named Bristo, was accused of sexually assaulting a white woman in a "bye and secret place." In other words, he was