Reminiscences of an American Loyalist, 1738-1789
Author : Jonathan Boucher
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1925
Category : American loyalists
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Author : Jonathan Boucher
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1925
Category : American loyalists
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Author : Jonathan Bouchier
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Page : 201 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Jonathan Bouchier
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Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Jonathan Bouchier (ed)
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Page : 201 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Jonathan Bouchier
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Page : pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : John K. Nelson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0807875104
In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental role the church played in the political, social, and economic as well as the spiritual lives of its parishioners. Drawing on extensive research in parish and county records and other primary sources, Nelson describes Anglican Virginia's parish system, its parsons, its rituals of worship and rites of passage, and its parishioners' varied relationships to the church. All colonial Virginians--men and women, rich and poor, young and old, planters and merchants, servants and slaves, dissenters and freethinkers--belonged to a parish. As such, they were subject to its levies, its authority over marriage, and other social and economic dictates. In addition to its religious functions, the parish provided essential care for the poor, collaborated with the courts to handle civil disputes, and exerted its influence over many other aspects of community life. A Blessed Company demonstrates that, by creatively adapting Anglican parish organization and the language, forms, and modes of Anglican spirituality to the Chesapeake's distinctive environmental and human conditions, colonial Virginians sustained a remarkably effective and faithful Anglican church in the Old Dominion.
Author : James B. Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2008-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0230583210
Examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the quartering of troops: topics which John Adams later recalled as causes of the American Revolution.
Author : Maurice Jackson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812221265
In the first intellectual biography of the man universally recognized in his own time as the founder of the Atlantic antislavery movement, Jackson demonstrates how Anthony Benezet mediated Enlightenment political and social thought, African travel narratives, and the ideas and experiences of ordinary people to create a new antislavery critique.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190456698
When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement. Based on a comprehensive amount of research at the Library of Congress, the collections at Mount Vernon, and rare book archives scattered across the country, Kevin J. Hayes corrects this misconception and reconstructs in vivid detail the active intellectual life that has gone largely unnoticed in conventional narratives of Washington. Despite being a lifelong reader, Washington felt an acute sense of embarrassment about his relative lack of formal education and cultural sophistication, and in this sparkling literary biography, Hayes illustrates just how tirelessly Washington worked to improve. Beginning with the primers, forgotten periodicals, conduct books, and classic eighteenth-century novels such as Tom Jones that shaped Washington's early life, Hayes studies Washington's letters and journals, charting the many ways the books of his upbringing affected decisions before and during the Revolutionary War. The final section of the book covers the voluminous reading that occurred during Washington's presidency and his retirement at Mount Vernon. Throughout, Hayes examines Washington's writing as well as his reading, from The Journal of Major George Washington through his Farewell Address. The sheer breadth of titles under review here allow readers to glimpse Washington's views on foreign policy, economics, the law, art, slavery, marriage, and religion-and how those views shaped the young nation.. Ultimately, this sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America.
Author : Jonathan Boucher
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Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 1925
Category : American loyalists
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