Nathan Cole’s and Charles Chauncey’s writings tell us about that George Whitfield had a powerful effect on the people who followed him during this time. For instance, Nathan Cole described how he drops everything he doing and hurried on his way when he hear that Mr. Whitfield was coming to preach. Chauncey explains how Mr. Whitfield moved a different range of individuals and he expresses how the people will react to his preaching; although, these individual were not becoming God-like they were bitter.

The author of A General History of the Pyrates explain the rise in piracy in the wake of the War of the Spanish Succession/Queen Anne’s War as destructive to Navigation of the trading world. Daniel Defoe states how there is only two solutions