Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Parish of Trinity Church, Oxford, Philadelphia: Read in the Church on Sunday, Aug, 2d, 1857The church to which Mr. Evans refers, was a building, probabl y of logs, which, according to Keith, had been put up, or at least used, for a Quaker meeting-house, but had been given by its proprietors to the Parish - the most of them having become converts to the Church. Keith, in his Journal published in 1706, speaks of it as a convenient church, and as, at the time of his writing, viz., as is supposed, in 1705, supplied with a minister, and in use, on every Lord's day, for prayers and sermons, and the administration of the It probabl y stood near the present church-building, and may have been the one afterwards spoken of in the records of the Parish as the school-house be longing to Oxford Church. Previous to the dona tion of it to the church, it may have been used, and probably was, by the Dutch Anabaptists and Swedish Lutherans of the neighborhood, as well as by the English Quakers, from whom it came.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.