1742 JOHN PORTER. MSs Almanack of Convert of George Whitefield & Great Awakening Divine. Exposition and Writings of that Apostle

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1742 JOHN PORTER. MSs Almanack of Convert of George Whitefield & Great Awakening Divine. Exposition and Writings of that ApostleA superb interleaved 1742 Almanack, containing 6 MSs leaves in the hand of Rev. John Porter [1716 1802]. Porter came to preach at the North Parish Church in Bridgewater [now Brockton], Massachusetts first in 1739, and was ordained 1740. He was, however, to have little success until after his encounter with George Whitefield, in 1742. By his own account, he himself was likely not converted before the Boston meetings under Tennent and Whitefield; Be