A superb and scarce biography of an important English British Baptist who sensed a call to come to America as an Evangelist and Revivalist. Absolutely superb and historically important content [see below].

[Thomas S. Sheardown]. Half a Century's Labors in the Gospel, Including Thirty-Five Years of Back-Woods' Mission Work, and Evangelizing, in New York and Pennsylvania. An Auto-Biography, by Thomas S. Sheardown, as Related, in his 74th year, to a Stenographer. With an Appendix, Containing additional Sketches, Notices of Mrs. Esther G. Sheardown, Histories, &c. &c. by other Hands. O. N. Worden and E. B. Case. 1866. Second Thousand. 372pp. 

Items mentioned in the text include: William Steadman [the English Baptist], William Wilberforce [whom he knew], Palmyra, New York [Revival there], interactions with Arminians, Campbellites, Free Will Baptists, Presbyterians, Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, Old School Baptists, The Slaveholders' Rebellion, Baptismal Regeneration, Gill-ism and Fuller-ism [John Gill and Andrew Fuller], Debate of the Baptist Articles of Faith, Great Awakening and Revival on the Tioga River and Crooked Creek, Accused of Freemasonry, Revival in Sullivan Township, Protracted Meetings, Four Hundred Conversions Reported, Ice Recedes Miraculously for Baptisms in Crooked Lake, etc. etc. 

Good copy, some bumping and general wear, cloth handled. Very solid. Blank ffep removed. Textually solid and clean with very minor tide mark on last few leaves.