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cerning the Trinity, with Emanual Swedenborg's An-
swers,⁶ Hindmarsh's Short Account of the Honourable'

Emanuel Swedenborg,⁷ as well as Wilmer's own Memoirs,
a copy of which was sent to President, George Washing-
ton, at the time when Wilmer was trying to make the
Swedenborgian the national church.⁹

The Swedenborgian was not the only sect for which
the Adams brothers did printing. A Methodist funeral
sermon on the death of Miss Christiana Lane, by the
Reverend Prior, was pointed in 1792. No copy of
this sermon is extant, and there is nothing to prove
that it was not printed in Wilmington; but since
Mr. Prior was minister of the Methodist-church in
Baltimore, (or so the advertisement for the book in
the Baltimore Evening Post says; no other trace has
been found) it seems reasonable that the Baltimore
branch of the Adams firm issued the pamphlet.

It was the Baltimore Adams office which printed
the first of an imposing array of books which were
peddled upon the road by the Reverend Mason Locke
Weems. This first of the long line of Weems publica-
tions was Robert Russel^fs Sermons on Different Impor-
tant Subjects, printed by the Adams firm in 1791,¹¹
6 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 93.

7 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 62.

8 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, Item 98.
8 Dictionary of American biography, v,20, p. 314.

10 Baltimore evening post, December 15, 1792.

11 Appendix A, Imprint bibliography, item 36,