Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
This it is that opens a clear prospectus of the conversion of many Souls which God in his own time will make to the true Church of Christ since my removal into this parish I have baptized a considerable number of Children and several grown people but what may be thought wortliy of particular notice herein is the case of 2 persons a man and a Woman wlio were brought up in the principles k lived many years in the profession of Quakerism, the Man when upon his death bed sent for me, accordingly I visited him often and lie confessed before witnesses that he had been ignorant of the true soul saving knowledge of Christ. Tiiat now God was pleased to open the eyes of his understanding and to give him repentance to tlie acknowledging of tlie truth. He earnestly desired to be baptized and said "he could not die with that peace of mind or conscience till it was done k he received at my Hand the Sacrament of Baptism k to all outward appearance died a penitent Christian. The Woman when upon a sick bed sent for me & after sdme discourse with her desired Christian Baptism, but her nearest relations and friends who were about her who were Quakers endeavoured all they could to dissuade her from it, asking her whether she tliought the sprinkling a little water on her face, would carry her immediately to Heaven bidding her to remember what she had learned of them in her younger days and not depart from it; But though I was so passionately opposed in the discharge of my duty and this poor Woman so rudely beset at so Solemn a season as that must be of a seeming departure, yet I proceeded in the Office of Baptism and she as readily received it.