An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

An intelligent and credible person living upon that Island, in a Letter, Dated September 4. 1683. adds as follows; There was about four years since, by some of the same crew, another attempt made amongst us, which was also attended with the like providence, though not so fatal an issue; There was a young Woman, a Daughter of a Quaker among us, who was howled into their Society, as Harris was, and quickly fell to railing on others, and then to raving, being in a dreadful condition, so that several persons of their Gang watched with her, and she was made wonderful strong to outstrive them, and to break away from them. One of their own party newly in favour with […], told me that he was by in the night when they watched with her, and in the very darkness of the night, they heard a very doleful noise, like the crying of a young Child in the yard of field near the house, which filled the Auditors with some fearful Apprehensions, which when the ⟨p. 345⟩young Woman heard, she violently brake from her Attendance, saying, the Lord calls me, and I must go, so in the dark she got from them, to the cry-ward as they supposed, and it was a good space of time before they could find her, and then she was as one affrighted, and bereaved of understanding, and continued so a space of time, sometimes ridiculous to behold, sometimes very awful, till such time as Justice Wood of Huntington, by the use of means recovered her, which her Quaking Friends notwithstanding their brags could not do; so that I heard her Husband say, that he was convinced that the Devil was among them. This Providence was at that time fearful among us, yet since, both that Woman and her Husband are railing Quakers, and do Hum and Revile as the rest of them, though several forsook their Society upon this account. Thus He:

An intelligent and credible person living upon that Island, in a Letter, Dated September 4. 1683. adds as follows; There was about four years since, by some of the same crew, another attempt made amongst us, which was also attended with the like providence, though not so fatal an issue; There was a young Woman, a Daughter of a Quaker among us, who was howled into their Society, as Harris was, and quickly fell to railing on others, and then to raving, being in a dreadful condition, so that several persons of their Gang watched with her, and she was made wonderful strong to outstrive them, and to break away from them. One of their own party newly in favour with 〈…〉, told me that he was by in the night when they watched with her, and in the very darkness of the night, they heard a very doleful noise, like the crying of a young Child in the yard of field near the house, which filled the Auditors with some fearful Apprehensions, which when the