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Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792 [Note on a missionary]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04764.81 Author/Creator: Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph note Date: December 12, 1777 Pagination: 1 p. ; 7.2 x 23.9 cm. Order a Copy

Index says the note is in General Burgoyne's hand. Initialed "JB" at the top. Says: "To be attended to: Joshua Wingate Weeks of Marblehead Missionary from the Society for propagat[ing] the gospel -" Weeks was a Royalist Anglican minister kicked out of Marblehead, Massachusetts for continuing to preach in the Anglican Church there. Date of creation inferred from the date of Weeks's ejection from Marblehead.

Kingston, Robert M., fl. 1776-1779

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