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From: "Eleanor Nielsen" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Amwell Church Cemetery
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:49:16 -0500


Evelyn,
Thank you so very much for sharing this bit of History in Amwell, Hunterdon
Co. New Jersey.
These for us folk who are mid west in the States certainly appreciate this
kind of info.
Eleanor

> > Susan and list members:
>
> "A History of East Amwell" has this to say on the subject:
>
> Page 189 -- In 1734, Jonathan Edwards had begun preaching in Massachuttes
> his fire and brimstone sermons to instil a sense of sin into his hearers.
> His writings were read by John Wesley in England who began the Methodist
> Group at Oxford University and he, in his turn, inspired George Whitefield
> who became the leading evangelist of the Western world at that time.
>

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