To the public. There has been a design formed, and some attempts have lately been made, to send the gospel to Guinea ...
Contributors: Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803
Publisher: Printed by Solomon Southwick
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Newport, R.I.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Church history
Other titles: To the public. There has been a design formed.
Notes: Title from caption and beginning of text.

Deals with the sending of black freemen to Africa as missionaries.

Place of publication, printer, and date from Alden.

Includes a reprint of an earlier circular, signed and dated on p.3: Ezra Stiles, Samuel Hopkins. Newport, Rhode Island, August 31, 1773. No copy of the earlier circular, which may have been in manuscript, has been located.

Signed also on p. 8 by Stiles and Hopkins, and dated: Newport, April 10, 1776.

Alden, J.E.  R.I. Imprints, 670