This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...events of his life. 20. Chronology Of Philip Embury There is a chronological group of events, each having a definite date and all well supported by documentary evidence, some, for example, by entries in a "private and family memorandum book kept by Philip Embury himself,"1 including the date of his baptism, the fact ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...events of his life. 20. Chronology Of Philip Embury There is a chronological group of events, each having a definite date and all well supported by documentary evidence, some, for example, by entries in a "private and family memorandum book kept by Philip Embury himself,"1 including the date of his baptism, the fact and date of his conversion, etc. This group embraces the more important events of his life and gives certainty to the record of his career. 1. Philip Embury was born in Ballingran, Ireland, and was baptized as an infant, September 7, 1728. (i) 2. Philip Embury was converted December 25, 1752. (-) 3. Philip Embury was recommended for the itinerancy to the Conference at Limerick, in August, 1758. (3) 4. Philip Embury was married to Margaret Sweitzer, in the Rathkeale Church, October 31, 1758. (4) 1 Atkinson, The Beginnings, etc., pp. 222, 223, 225. 5. Philip Embury preached his last sermon in Ireland, in June, 1760, from the deck of the ship that took him to America. (5) 6. Philip Embury, with the members of his Ballingran class, arrived in New York by the ship Perry, August 10, 1760. (6) 7. Philip Embury advertised for pupils for himself and his brother, John, in March and April, 1761, in Weyman's Gazette, a New York paper. (7) 8. Philip Embury, members of his class and others, applied to the Governor of the Colony of New York, for a patent of crown land, February 1, 1763. (8) 9. Philip Embury preached a sermon in his own house on Barracks Street, New York, to five persons including Barbara Heck, about the middle of October, 1766. (-) 10. Philip Embury formed a society near the end of October, 1766, or early in November of the same year. (10) 11. Philip Embury and others hired an upper room, also on Barracks Street, later in 1...
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