Account of the founding of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Natives of New England, ca. 1696.

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Account of the founding of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Natives of New England, ca. 1696.

Handwritten extract from Matthew Sylvester's Reliquiae Baxterianae (four manuscript pages).

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