Excerpt from A Biographical Sketch of Thomas Worcester: For Nearly Fifty Years the Pastor of the Boston Society of the New Terusalem; With Some Account of the Origin and Rise of That Society It was his chief object to become acquainted with the college, and to introduce the works of Swedenborg there. For that purpose he boarded in Cambridge; became well acquainted with Dr. Kirkland, who always spoke of him with great respect, and with Mr. Craigie, who gradually received the doctrines, and was a firm believer in them at his death, many years afterwards. It was at Mr. Crai gie's house that I saw Mr. Hill for the first time, at a ball, where a large number of persons belonging to Cambridge and Boston were assembled. Mr. Hill had come unexpect edly to so large a party, and emptied his coat-pocket of a number of notes in short-hand, which was the way he wrote his sermons, and a Bible, which he always carried about him, on to a window-seat, and then joined the dance. He was an object of general attention, partly because it was so uncommon to see a clergyman dance; and some light and frivolous remarks were made, - such as that he had come to America to find his partner, etc. This was in the winter of 1794 - 95 and he returned to England not so much discouraged but that he came back to Boston again in 1797, partly induced by a letter from Mrs. Andrews, who kept up a correspondence with her brother and always felt an interest in Mr. Hill, though she never received the doc trines. From Boston he went to Philadelphia, where there were already some receivers. Mr. And Mrs. Duche, with their two daughters, had returned home. Mrs. Duche died suddenly that autumn, and Mr. Duche languished, and died a few weeks after. Mr. Hill married Esther, the eldest daughter, the following spring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.