Letter 4166

Henry Newman to Hans Sloane – Tuesday 9. April 1734


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Date: Tuesday 9. April 1734
Author: Henry Newman
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 193



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Extract of Minutes of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Bartel’s Buildngs Tuesday 9. April 1734 Mr. Copping reported that Sr. Hans Sloan had presented and recommended the Memorial relating to the support of the Salisbury Ministers gone to Georgia to the Rt. Hon.ble the Countess of Harold and the Trustees of the late Earl of Shanet’s Charity. Agreed that Mr. Copping be desired to return the Thanks of the Society to Sr. Hans Sloan for his good offices on that occasion.

Henry Newman (1670-1743) was Secretary for The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. He graduated BA and MA from Harvard, worked as a librarian, and entered the commercial fishing industry in Newfoundland until 1703 when he settled in England to work for the Society (Leonard W. Cowie, ‘Newman, Henry (1670–1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39693, accessed 14 Aug 2015]).




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