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The Mayhew Controversy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Richard James Hooker
Affiliation:
Chicago, Illinois

Extract

Somewhere in the complicated pattern of colonial fears that were aroused by legislation, actual or proposed, during the fifteen years preceding the American Revolution, an indeterminate space must be found for the so-called Mayhew Controversy. Coming into the open in 1763, this anti-Anglican outbreak drew its life from roots which stretched profusely into the past. This study aims not only to describe the various sources of the controversy, but also to point out several of its more interesting characteristics.

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Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1936

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