A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity, By a College to Be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda

In this 1725 pamphlet the author surveys the spiritual state of Britain’s overseas colonies, lamenting a shortage of qualified clergy and the persistence of “ignorance and barbarism” among both settlers and the native peoples they encounter. Drawing on biblical language and contemporary concerns, he argues that the moral health of the colonies hinges on delivering the gospel through educated, zealous ministers rather than the poorly trained parrots of England’s poor‑pay clergy.

The core of his plan is the establishment of a college on the Bermuda islands, intended to train local youth for the Anglican ministry and to produce missionaries capable of reaching “savage” Americans and enslaved Africans. By rooting religious instruction in a resident seminary, he hopes to fill vacant pulpits, raise moral standards, and create a generation of ministers whose example will shape both plantation society and the wider colonial world.