The Ordeal of Thomas Barton: Anglican Missionary in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1755-1780

by James P. Myers Jr.

This study draws upon Thomas Barton's Forbes expedition journal, and a vast collection of manuscript letters, sermons, and other contemporary documents to illuminate his career and help readers appreciate the complex world of the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania frontier and more generally of the colonial American back country. As a missionary for the Church of England's Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in York, Cumberland,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611460638
• ISBN13: 9781611460636
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"