Thus one of the most conspicuous of the second class was introduced, accidentally as it were, to one of the most conspicuous of the first.

In the year 1775 William Dillwyn went back to America, but, on his return to England to settle, he renewed his visits to Granville Sharp.

Thus the connection was continued.

To these observations I may now add; that Samuel Hoare, of the same class as William Dillwyn, had, in consequence of the Bishop of Chester's sermon, begun a correspondence in 1784, as before mentioned, with Mr.Ramsay, who was of the same class as Mr.Sharp.Thus four individuals of the two first classes were in the way of an union with one another.
But circumstances equally natural contributed to render an union between the members of the second and the third classes easily practicable also.
For what was more natural than that William Dillwyn, who was born and who had resided long in America, should have connections there?
He had long cultivated a friendship (not then knowing to what it would lead) with James Pemberton.

His intimacy with him was like that of a family connection.