A history of the sect throughout New England, containing many short biographies. It is fair and frank in its record of New England persecutions. The author adopts the unique plea that the excesses of the converts were inspired by the Holy Spirit as a reproof to their persecutors for the kind of persecution and punishment that was meted out to innocent persons. Evans, Charles. Friends in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia, 1876. Gough, John. History of the People called Quakers. Dublin, 1789-90. 4 vols. Hallowell, Richard Price. The Pioneer Quakers. Boston and New York, 1887. Manuscript Records of Early Newport Yearly (Friends') Meetings--at Friends' School, Providence, R. I. Minutes of meetings, reports of cases of oppression, of converts, etc. Sewel, William. The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers, Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences. Written originally in Low Dutch by W. S. and by himself translated into English. 1st ed., Amsterdam, 1717; 2d ed., London, 1722; 3d ed., 1725, 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1728, etc. New York, 1844. [a] Wagstaff, William R. History of the Friends (compiled from standard records and authentic sources). New York and London, 1845. A defense of the excesses in Quaker eccentricities as religious enthusiasm in persons who were driven by persecution to the verge of madness. A similar view is expressed by R. P. Hallowell and by Brooks Adams in his "Emancipation of Massachusetts." F. TRACTS (RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL OR BOTH) Of these, several titles that are found at full length either in the text or footnotes are omitted here. Many more might have been added, but it is thought best to omit them because of their cumbrous titles, their scant interest to the average reader, and their inaccessibility, being found only in the largest libraries or among rare Americana. For similar reasons, works strictly theological in character are also not listed. Any sizable library possesses a copy of H. M. Dexter's "Congregationalism as seen in the Literature of the last Three Hundred Years." Its bibliography of over 7000 titles gives all the religious, ecclesiastical or politico-ecclesiastical tracts, and theological works touching upon Congregationalism. Yale University library has a large amount of the Americana collected by Mr. Dexter. Trumbull's list of books published in Connecticut before 1800 gives the titles of books and pamphlets of strictly local import The Baptist Confession of Faith; first put forth in 1648; afterwards enlarged, corrected and published by an Assembly of Delegates (from the churches in Great Britain) met in London, July 3, 1689; adopted by the Association at Philadelphia, September 22, 1742, and now received by churches of the same denomination in most of the American States, to which is added a System of Church Discipline. Portland, 1794. Bartlett, Moses. False and Seducing Teachers. New London, 1757.