CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY....

CHAP. I.—EARLIEST ATTEMPTS AT ENGLISH COLONIZATION.—Sir

Humphrey Gilbert's Expedition.-Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke

Colony. Expeditions of Pring and Waymouth

CHAP. II. THE VIRGINIA CHARTER AND SETTLEMENT.-Chaplain

Robert Hunt.-Religious Interest in England.-Lord De la Warr's

Administration.-Laws of Sir Thomas Dale.-House of Burgesses,

1619.-The Bishop of London's Jurisdiction.-Treatment of Puri-

tans in Virginia.-The King Annuls the Colonial Charter.-Mis-

sionaries Sent to Virginia.-Proscription of Quakers.-Commissary

Blair.-College of William and Mary.-Church Statistics, 1720.-

Characteristics of Life in Virginia.-Dissent in Virginia.-Evan-

gelistic Labors of Morgan.-Baptists and Methodists.-Effect of

the Revolutionary War.-Incorporation of the Church.—First Prot-

estant Episcopal Convention.—Deputies Appointed.-Dr. Griffith

Elected Bishop.

CHAP. III.—THE COLONIAL CHURCH IN MARYLAND.-Lord Balti-

more, Proprietary.-Act of Religious Freedom, 1649.-First Men-

tion of English Church, 1676.-English Church Established in

Maryland. Dr. Bray Appointed Commissary.-Maryland Act of

Establishment.-Influence of Commissary Bray.-A Minister's

Work and Pay.-Alienation from the Church.-The Clergy and the

Legislature at Odds.—Value of Maryland Livings.-Effect of the

Coming Revolution.-Dr. Jonathan Boucher.-The Church after

the Revolution.

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CHAP. IV. THE COLONIAL CHURCH IN NEW ENGLAND, OUTSIDE OF

CONNECTICUT.-John Lyford and Thomas Morton.-Rev. William

Blaxton.-First Church at Portsmouth, N. H.-Genesis of the

Puritans.-Puritan Rejection of Episcopacy.-Building of King's

Chapel.-Mission of Keith and Talbot.-Controversies of John

Checkley.-Building of Christ Church, Boston.-Trinity Church,

Boston.-Christ Church, Cambridge.-The Narragansett Church.

-Church Life in Rhode Island.-St. John's Church, Providence,

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mouth, N. H.-The Church in New Hampshire.-The Church in

Maine. Church Congregations in Maine

CHAP. V.-THE COLONIAL CHURCH IN CONNECTICUT.-Introduction

of the Church, 1706.-Conversion of the Rector of Yale College.—

Address to the Trustees of Yale College.-Rector Cutler's Conver-

sion.-Conversion of Johnson.-Opposition to Episcopacy.—Mr.

Johnson and Dean Berkeley.-Conversion of Bishop Seabury's

Father. Controversies. - Rev. George Whitefield. - Effect of

Whitefield's Preaching.-Causes for Desiring a Bishop.-Johnson

Made President of King's College.-Charge of Proselyting.-Effect

of the Stamp Act, 1765.-Dr. Chandler's "Appeal to the Public."

-Last Efforts before the Revolution.-The Church During the

Revolution.-Suspension of Services.-The Church at Close of

Revolution

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CHAP. VI. THE COLONIAL CHURCH IN NEW YORK.-English Con-

quest of New York.-Act of 1693; Governor Fletcher.-Call of

Mr. Vesey to Trinity Church.-The Building of Trinity Church.-

Church Life in New York.-The English and Dutch Churches.-

The Church in Albany.-Mr. Elias Neau's Work for Negroes.—

The Building of St. George's Chapel.-Founding of King's (Colum-

bia) College.—St. Paul's Chapel.—New York Clergy During the

Revolution. Dr. Inglis, Rector of Trinity Church.-Rev. Samuel

Provoost, Rector of Trinity..

CHAP. VII.-THE COLONIAL CHURCH IN NEW JERSEY.-Keith's

and Talbot's Coming.-John Talbot.-Talbot's Alleged Consecra-

tion. Talbot and Urmston.-Talbot's Character and Labors.-

Thomas Bradley Chandler.-Church Condition before the Revolu-

tion

CHAP. VIII.-THE COLONIAL CHURCH IN PENNSYLVANIA AND

DELAWARE.-Penn and his Settlement.-First Rectors of Christ

Church. Relations to Swedish Churches.-Rev. Richard Welton.

--Christ Church, Philadelphia.-St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia.

-Drs. Duché and White as Rectors.-St. Paul's Church, Phila-

delphia.—Old Swedes' Church, Wilmington.....

CHAP. IX. THE COLONIAL CHURCH IN THE CAROLINAS.-The Con-

stitution of John Locke.—St. Philip's Church, Charleston.—Mis-

sionaries Thomas and Le Jean.-St. Michael's Church, Charleston.

-Support of the Country Churches.-Commissary Garden and

Whitefield.-The Laity in South Carolina.-Missionaries in North

Carolina. Privations and Labors of Missionaries.-The Vestry Act

of 1741.-The Rev. Clement Hall.-Governor Tryon's Influence.-

Rev. Edward Jones

CHAP. X.-THE COLONIAL CHURCH IN GEORGIA.-Charles Wesley
in Georgia.-John Wesley in Georgia.-George Whitefield in Geor-

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gia.-Bethesda Orphan House Founded.-Bethesda College Rule.

-Whitefield's Death.-Church Progress Slow and Meager.-

Church Exterminated by the Revolution..

CHAP. XI.-SUMMARY OF THE COLONIAL CHURCH AND ITS LES-

SONS.-Evils of State Patronage.-An American Episcopate Fa-

vored.-Individual Requests for Bishops.-Combined Action to

Secure Bishops.-Puritan and Presbyterian Objections.—Popular

Opposition to Bishops.-Origin of the S. P. G.-Work Accom-

plished by the S. P. G.-Dean Berkeley's American Project.—

Berkeley's Influence in America......

CHAP. XII.-ECCLESIASTICAL ACTION PRELIMINARY TO THE FORMA-

TION OF THE Protestant EPISCOPAL CHURCH.-Action in Penn-

sylvania." Case of the Episcopal Churches."-White's Position

on Episcopacy.-White's Advocacy of Lay Representation.—

White's Early Life and Education.-White's American Spirit.-

White's Views.—The Name Protestant Episcopal Church.—Eccle-

siastical Action in Maryland.-Dr. William Smith Elected Bishop.

-Provost William Smith, D.D.-Dr. Smith and the Maryland

Episcopate.-Seabury, Bishop Elect of Connecticut.—Seabury Seek-

ing Consecration.-Obstacles in Seabury's Way.—The Nonjuring

Bishops of Scotland.-Seabury's Application to the Nonjurors.-

Seabury's Consecration at Aberdeen.--Bishop Seabury and Charles

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CHAP. XIII.-FORMATION AND ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION

AND THE PRAYER-BOOK (1784-89).—Meeting in Philadelphia.--

Meeting in New York.-Letters to the New York Convention.—

Fundamental Constitutional Principles.-Pennsylvania Convention

Called.-Convention in South Carolina.-Letters of Parker and Sea-

bury.-The First General Convention.-The "Proposed Book.”—

The Constitution.-The Address to the English Bishops.-Friendly

Action of John Adams.-Rev. Dr. Samuel Provoost.-Troubles in

the General Convention.-Reply to the English Bishops.--Three

Bishops Elected.-White and Provoost sail.--Consecration of White

and Provoost.-Connecticut Elects a Coadjutor Bishop.-Bishop

Seabury's Policy.-Defection of King's Chapel.-General Conven-

tion of 1789.-Parker's Proposition Concerning Bass.-Seabury

Consents to the Constitution.-New England Joins the Convention.

-The Prayer-book.-Omitted Rubrics.-The Communion Office.. 327

CHAP. XIV.-A PERIOD OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION AND FEEBLE

GROWTH (1789-1811).-Faults of the Church.-Church Decline in

Virginia. The Church in the South.-The Church in the Middle

States.-Bishop Benjamin Moore.-Death of Bishop Seabury.-

The Thirty-nine Articles.- Canons Concerning Morals.-The

Church and the Methodists.-Dr. Coke and Bishop White.-Dr.

Coke and Bishop Seabury.-General Convention of 1808...

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CHAP. XV.-FROM THE CONSECRATION OF BISHOP HOBART TO THE

DEATH OF BISHOP WHITE (1811-36).—John Henry Hobart.—

Consecration of Hobart.-Hobart's Episcopate.-Death of Bishop

Hobart. The Eastern Diocese.-Bishop Griswold.-Labors of

Griswold.-Richard Channing Moore.-Moore Elected Bishop.—

Moore's Virginia Episcopate.-His Ecclesiastical Position.-Other

Bishops.-Bishop Philander Chase.-Bishop Chase in Illinois.

General Theological Seminary.—Virginia Theological Seminary.-

Church Colleges.+Missionary Organization.-Foreign Missions.—

Bishop Ravenscroft.-Various Episcopal Consecrations.-Death of

Bishop White.-Bishop White's Funeral

CHAP. XVI.-FROM THE DEATH OF BISHOP WHITE TO THE END

OF THE CIVIL WAR (1835–65).—Expansion of the Episcopate.—

Missionary Organizations.-Church Parties.-The Evangelicals.

-Evangelical Theology.-Prominent Low-churchmen.-High-

churchmanship.-High-church Theology.—Bishop G. W. Doane.—

The Carey Ordination.-General Convention of 1844.-Ecclesias-

tical Trials. Defection of Bishop Ives.-The Memorial Movement.

-William Augustus Muhlenberg.-Scope of the Memorial.-Bishop

Alonzo Potter.-Fate of the Memorial.-Kemper and Breck.-Sepa-

ration by the War.-Church in the Confederacy.-Loyal Attitude

of the Church.-Bishop J. H. Hopkins.-Reunion...

CHAP. XVII.—FROM THE REUNION OF THE CHURCH TO THE PRES-

ENT TIME (1865-95).-Theological Seminaries.-Collegiate Insti-

tutions. University of the South.-Preparatory Schools.-Do-

mestic Missions.-Foreign Missions.-The Mexican Mission.-

Foreign Churches.-The Woman's Auxiliary.—Deaconesses.-

Cathedrals. Ritualism.-Controversy Concerning Ritual.-Canon

Concerning Ritual.-Reformed Episcopal Church.-American

Church Congress.-Broad-churchmen.-Broad-churchmanship.—

Edward A. Washburn.-Phillips Brooks.-Parochial Missions.—

Church Temperance Society.-Lambeth Conferences.-Prayer-book

Revision. The Memorial Vindicated.—Declaration Concerning

Unity. The Quadrilateral. . . .

APPENDIX.

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HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

BY

C. C. TIFFANY, D.D.,
ARCHDEACON OF NEW YORK.