The Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies was a microcosm of those culturally diverse religious upheavals which erupted at the end of the 1730's, not only in New Jersey and New England but also in the British Isles and on the Continent. Small fires were breaking out spontaneously in widely scattered spots in the western world. In historically related, yet temporally unconnected, incidents, George Whitefield of England had been "born again" in 1735, "about seven weeks after Easter"; Howell Harris, a leader of the Great Revival in Wales, had shortly before "seen Christ" on Whitsunday; the same spring Jonathan Edwards had led what Perry Miller described as "the most spectacular revival that New England had yet beheld "; and the largest number of confessions to date were recorded in the Kerken-Boeck of Dominie Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen's Dutch Reformed Church at North Branch in New Jersey. By the end of 1739 Whitefield had arrived in the Colonies, as had also a shipment of Dutch tracts entitled A Summons to repentance, comprising sermons by Dominie Frelinghuysen. By 1740 towns and villages along the whole coast of British North America, in England, Scotland and Wales, in Switzerland, in the Netherlands, and in Northern Germany were convulsing in response to the appeals of awakening theology and experimental divinity. American Colonists who had originally come from these widely scattered areas were, as well, deeply involved in the Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies.