Letter from Rev. John Urmston to William Taylor Esqr.
- Title
- Letter from Rev. John Urmston to William Taylor Esqr.
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- Letter from Rev. John Urmston to the Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, William Taylor Esqr., dated June 12, 1715 informing him of his intentions to leave North Carolina due to grievances with the Lords Proprietors and impending attacks by Indians. The letter includes a critique of John Lawson and of the idea of the Carolinas as a place of paradise. From The Church of England in North Carolina: Documents, 1699-1741. Ed. Robert J. Cain. Reprinted Raleigh, N.C.: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1974. Pages 200–202.
- Date
- 1999
- Original Format
- excerpts
- Extent
- 17cm x 26cm
- Local Identifier
- BX5917.N8 C48 1999
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- Subject(s)
- Carolina. Proprietors
- Urmston, John
- Lawson, John, 1674-1711--Death and burial
- Church of England--North Carolina--History
- North Carolina--Church history--Sources
- Clergy--North Carolina
- North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Joyner NC Stacks
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