1771 SCOTCH-IRISH VERNACULAR. Early American Confesses the Sin of Repeated Drunkenness. Puritan Sure [I am that ]

Sure [I am that ] he who has assisted and will perhaps to the end of time assist so many in their last moments will himself be much assisted

" written in Trenton on April 22

There are detailed descriptions of hunting elk

Tidy full leather volume with some rubbing

It was Melanchthon who most eloquently articulated the fundamental precepts of the Protestant Reformation into written form

1771 SCOTCH-IRISH VERNACULAR. Early American Confesses the Sin of Repeated Drunkenness. Puritan Sure [I am that ]A very rare and interesting likely Scotch Irish vernacular confession of repeated drunkenness by Benjamin Payn. The phonetics are evident throughout the document, i. e. sparouts for spirits, repating for repeting, sparit for spirit, etc. A note to the rear indicates the location as Mount Carmel, likely Mount Carmel, South Carolina in McCormick County, right near the Georgia Border. Mount Carmel was settled by Scotch Irish immigrants in the 1750's. The