Mr. Freeman, upon hearing this, jumped from his seat in a
kind of transport, saying, 'I wish you could prove that, Sir,' The
gentleman answered that 'few things could admit of an easier proof.'
And from that moment a thorough intimacy commenced between him and
Mr. Freeman. Soon after, the Boston prints being under no
_imprimatur_, he published several letters in supporting the cause of
Mr. Freeman. At the solicitation of Mr. Freeman he also published a
Scriptural Confutation of the Thirty-nine Articles. Notice being
circulated that this publication would appear on a particular day, the
printer, apprised of this circumstance, threw off a hundred papers
beyond his usual number, and had not one paper remaining upon his
hands at noon. This publication in its consequences converted Mr.
Freeman's congregation into a Unitarian church, which, as Mr. Freeman
acknowledged, could never have been done without the labors of this
gentleman."
[49] American Unitarianism, from Belsham's Life of Lindsey, 12,
_note_.
[50] American Unitarianism, 16.
[51] American Unitarianism, note.
[52] Ibid., 20.
[53] American Unitarianism, 17.
[54] "Oxnard was a merchant, born in Boston in 1740, but settled in
Portland, where he married the daughter of General Preble, in 1787.
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