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    ^ d e mbarked with greatest part of my family at Greenock , August 6 th , 1795 , in a vessel bound for New York , where I

    arrived in the beginning of October . In the latter part of the voyage , 1 was seized with a slow fever , as I suppose of the nervous kind , and when I landed at New York was in a state of great

    de-Edinburgh and Arbroath , are I believe no more . [ My friend , Mr . Robert Millar , a respectable merchant , formerly a member of the Society at Mont rose , and who afterwards attended Mr . Palmer ' s meeting in Dundee , has , in conjunction with Mr . Matthews , kept up the Society at Dundee ever since Mr , Palmer ' s

    removal . ] In England I arn happy to announce alar more glorious and triumphant state of things with respect to Unitarianism . There were Unitarians in England at the time of the Reformation * and several

    persons suffered death or imprisonment for the profession of the truth . For 150 years the cause has been supported , less or more , by learned writers , able preachers , and distinguished private Christians .

    The Unitarian Society formed at London in 1791 , in a manner connects and combines all the noted men of that profession , throughout Great Britain , in one general body . A similar society on a large plan of that kind , was afterwards formed in the West of England , And by a letter , accompanied with a pamphlet , which I received near three months

    a * ro , from a respectable Unitarian minister in the vicinity of London , I find tliere is a third general eociety formed , called The Unitarian Fund , the object of which is to afford encouragement an <* support to popular and itinerant preachers in different parts of the country ^ in order more fully to extend and diffuse the knowledge of the truth . An account

    given of the progress and exertions of Mr . Wright arid other Unitarian preachers in . different places of Kngland and Wales . -Mention is also made in this Pamphlet of the Unitarians in Scotland , and particularly at Paisley .

    A ve ? y useful periodical publication , ««? beeri set on foot at London , entitled , 'heMonthly Repository , " &c

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    bility both of body and mind , The yellow fever was thep in that city , and a great part of my family were eitner affected with it or other disorders . I had to

    encounter many difficulties , embarrassments and unfortunate in * cidents in that city ; but experi * enced at the same . time the kind attentions of some pious and

    worthy persons , wpich alleviated these distressing events not a little . I removed to Philadelphia towards the end of Jpecember , where I remained till the 9 th of

    February 1796 , when I set out for Winchester in Virginia , and my family followed me there in April following * After some attempts , by

    conversation , letter-writing , and lending- books , to propagate the Unitarian doctrine in , a private * , familiar way , with little or no success * I recited these Dissertations a second time in the

    Courthouse at Winchester , in Autumn 1799 , to crowded audiences at first , but in the sequel to very thin ones . I wished niuch then to have published tjiese

    Dissertations ; but as the subject was unpopular and the publication would have been expensive , I did not attempt it ; but contented myself with writing and printing a small pamphlet entitled ; ., *

    " A Serious Address tg the Inhabitants of Winchester , oh the Unity of God and H ^ umJahity of Christ : with a List of Theological Treatises , to be afforded to

    the Perusal of thpse who may incline U > make an Inquiry into these important Subjects . ' * Winchester , 1800 . This Address , I advertised for eleven inonths in the Winchester Gazette , arid concluded the a < lvertisemeht by a solemn protest

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    W the Account of Mr . illiam Chri $ ti& 197

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/5/