1766 SAMUEL MATHER. Rare Work on Lay-Ordination - Signed by Samuel Mather and with Superb Provenance! Slavery Vicar of Yealmpton

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1766 SAMUEL MATHER. Rare Work on Lay-Ordination - Signed by Samuel Mather and with Superb Provenance! Slavery Vicar of YealmptonGeorge Beckwith [1703 1794], author of the present work, was the founding minister of the Third Parish church in Lyme, CT. He was involved with one of the most important legal cases of the era, which also has bearing on the provenance of the current volume. Beckwith himself was a slave owner. In 1756, a slave under Beckwith's "care," named Bristo, was accused of sexually assaulting a white woman in a "bye and secret place." In other words, he was