MEMOIRS

OF

THE LIFE

OF

Antoine

ANTHONY BENEZET

BY ROBERTS VAUX.

"He was the offspring of humanity,
And every child of sorrow was his brother."

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES P. PARKE,

NO. 74, SOUTH SECOND STREET.

Merritt, Printer.

District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-fifth day of February, in the forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1817, JAMES P. PARKE, of the_said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet. By Roberts Vaux.

"He was the offspring of humanity,

And every child of sorrow was his brother"

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encour agement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

WHEN this work was about to be undertaken, the writer presumed that ample materials might be procured, to render it altogether worthy of the character of Anthony Benezet. But although only thirty-two years have elapsed since his death, no traces are discernible of the mass of important and interesting documents, which must have accumulated during more than fifty of the last years of his life ; devoted as it continually was, to the most benevolent labours, in relation