Taylor, John; O'Callaghan, E. B. [editor]. Journal of Rev. John Taylor's Missionary Tour through the Mohawk & Black River Countries in 1802. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., Public Printers, 1850. First Edition. [9797]
Leaves are 11 1/2 x 9 inches, pp. 673-713; newly stab-sewn, foxing. Removed from The Documentary History of the State of New-York, Vol. III., by E. B. O'Callaghan; Albany, 1850. Good. Stab-sewn.
This item contains the Journal of Rev. John Taylor with the following plates: Utica in 1802 & Little Falls in 1802; Baron Steuben's Residence, 1802; Rome in 1802 & Whitestown in 1802; the Fort at Sandy Creek on Lake Ontario. Also includes the report, Rectors of St. Peter's Church, Albany, with a plate, Plan of the City of Albany about the year 1770. Lastly, Difficulties in the French Protestant Church, New-York, reprinted from a pamphlet, 1724.
The Journal is quite interesting and gives names and character of ministers and persons met with, as well as the number of families, the churches, the meeting-houses, of each locale visited.
Rev. John Taylor (1762-1840), b. Franklin Co., MA; d. Chippewa Co., Michigan. He graduated at Yale College in 1784. He was minister at Deerfield until 1802, when the Missionary Society of Hampshire County sent him in a tour of the Mohawk and Black River country of the interior of New York State. In 1817 he settled in Mendon, NY, until 1832, when he removed to Michigan.
"During his residence in Western New York and in Michigan, up to the time of his death, he labored unceasingly as a Minister, and such was his devotion to the interests of the church of which he was a member, his general intelligence and urbanity of his manners, that he rarely failed to attach firmly to himself as friends those with whom he was brought in contact." - Introductory note.