Papers, 1759-1803.

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Papers, 1759-1803.

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Correspondence of Jonathan Boucher, Anglican clergyman of Virginia, Maryland, and England. He was a prominent loyalist during the American Revolution and later a prominent figure among conservatives in the Anglican church in England. His principle correspondents in this collection include John James, James Maury, Charles Daubeny, Sir Frederick Morton Eden, William Knox, and William Stevens. The principle subjects covered by this collection include Virginia social customs and politics between the years 1759 and 1771, Boucher's experiences in, and views of, the American Revolution, Boucher's role in the struggle for unity in the Scottish Anglican Church, and his concern with schism and dissent in the Church of England.

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Boucher, Jonathan, 1738-1804

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Jonathan Boucher (1738-1804) was an Anglican clergyman in Virginia, Maryland, and England. He was one of the most prominent ejected loyalists of the American Revolution, and later a prominent figure in the conservative faction of the Church of England. He authored two books, A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution and A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words. From the description of Papers, 1759-1803. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 286...

Eden, Frederick Morton, Sir, 1766-1809

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Stevens, William, 1732-1807

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Daubeny, Charles, 1745-1827

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Maury, James, 1718-1769

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James Maury (1718-1769) was the son of Matthew Maury and Many Anne Fontaine. He attended William and Mary and in 1742 was appointed usher of the grammar school. He was ordained as a minister in England a year later. Maury preached in King William county and later, in Fredericksburg Parish in Louisa County, Va. In the late 1750's he ran a small boarding school and had as students, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison (later Bishop), Dabney Carr and others. From the guide to the James Maury...

James, John, 1729-1785

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Knox, William, 1732-1810

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William Knox began life in Ulster as the precocious child of a strongly evangelical Anglican family, and throughout a long career spent in service to the crown, he girded himself with his faith and a dogged allegiance to imperial authority. As the quintessential Anglo-Irish power seeker, Knox always remained something of a political outsider, even while enjoying a positions of great prestige and influence in colonial circles. Never afraid of controversy, quick to publish, and not in...