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Transatlantic Visitors and Evangelical Networks, 1829–61

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

John Wolffe*
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In June 1829 John Angell James, minister of Carr’s Lane Congregational Church in Birmingham, wrote to his friend William Wilson Patton, minister of a Presbyterian congregation in New York, thanking him for his congregation’s interest in the spiritual welfare of the British churches.

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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1994 

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28 Ibid., 6 January 1838.

29 Ibid., 12 August 1837, 23 December 1837, 6 January 1838.

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40 GBC, Journal, 23, 27 March 1861.

41 Ibid., 10 June 1861.

42 Ibid., 24 June 1861.