[134] "Several" (negroes) "are brought to Meetings." MS. Minutes Radnor Monthly Meetings, 1763-1772, p. 79 (1764). "Most of those possessed of them ... often bring them to our Meetings." _Ibid._, 175 (1767). [135] _Cf._ MS. Yearly Meeting Advices, 1682-1777, "Negroes or Slaves." [136] Cranz, _The Ancient and Modern History of the Brethren ... Unitas Fratrum_, 600, 601; Ogden, _An Excursion into Bethlehem and Nazareth in Pennsylvania_, 89, 90; I _Pa. Arch._, III, 75; _Pa. Mag._, XXIX, 363. [137] _Cf._ Bean, _History of Montgomery County_, 302. [138] MS. Records of Christ Church, Phila., I, 19, 43, 44, 46, 49, 132, 168, 271, 273, 274, 276, 277, 280, 281, 282, 283, 288, 293, 306, 312, 314, 333, 337, 341, 342, 344, 352, 353, 359, 371, 379, 383, 388, 392, 397, 399, 416, 440, 441. Baptisms were very frequent in the years 1752 and 1753. Very many of the slaves admitted were adults, whereas in the case of free negroes at the same period most of the baptisms were of children. [139] William Macclanechan, writing to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1760, says: "On my Journey to New-England, I arrived at the oppulent City of Philadelphia, where I paid my Compliments to the Rev'd Dr. Jenney, Minister of Christ's Church in that City, and to the Rev'd Mr. Sturgeon, _Catechist to the Negroes_." H. W. Smith, _Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith_, I, 238. [140] "Many negroes came, ... some enquiring, have I a soul?" Gillies and Seymour, _Memoirs of the Life and Character of ... Rev. George Whitefield_ (3d ed.), 55. "I believe near Fifty Negroes came to give me Thanks, under God, for what has been done to their Souls.... Some of them have been effectually wrought upon, and in an uncommon Manner." _A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal_, 65, 66. "Visited a Negroe and prayed with her, and found her Heart touched by Divine Grace. Praised be the Lord, methinks one Negroe brought to Jesus Christ is peculiarly sweet to my Soul." W. Seward, _Journal of a Voyage from Savannah to Philadelphia_, etc., Apr. 18, 1740. [141] "This afternoon a Negro man from Cecil County maryland preached in orchard opposite to ours. there was Sundry people, they said he spoke well for near an hour." MS. Ch. Marshall's Remembrancer, E, July 13, 1779.