Benjamin Furly, "an English Merchant At Rotterdam" : Who Promoted the First German Emigration to America
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Thomas the Martyr" (from MSS. of Algernon Sidney). 1709. " Discernement des Tenebres d'avec la Lumi^re." (French.) 8vo, 1710. "l^clair de Lumiere decendent," etc. (French.) 8vo, 1711. " The Approaching Judgments of God upon the Roman Empire," etc. Translated out of high Dutch by B. Furly. 8vo, 1711. It can matter but little whether or not Benjamin Furly lived continuously and died within the fold of the Society of Friends,^ but it cannot be denied that to him more than to any 1 English edition,... Book III, p. 208. * From the fact of his burial within the walls of the chief orthodox church at Rotterdam it would appear that he had renounced Quakerism prior to bis death. 18 Benjamin Furly. other person is due the credit of materializing the dream of Penn, so far as the German element is concerned, for he not only encouraged them with advice and counsel, but with more substantial means in the shape of concessions of land, transportation, and loans of money. The only trustworthy personal description of Benjamin Furly and his peculiarities that has come down to us is the interesting account given in the Memoirs of Zacharias von Uffenbach,^ who visited Rotterdam in the year 1710 ; he had been a classmate, at Halle, of Justus Falkner, one of the early German Pietists in Pennsylvania, and later was an attorney for Furly.^ He writes, — " On the morning of November 21, we went Op-Te Haar- ingVliet, to visit Benjamin Furly, an English Merchant, who was the chief of the Quakers in Holland, and possesses a curious stock of Books, mainly suspecice Jidei He lives in a very fine house, and is a man of about seventy years of age, and of peculiar actions.
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