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A War of ReligionA Handmaiden for Episcopacy: John Checkley of Boston

A War of Religion: A Handmaiden for Episcopacy: John Checkley of Boston [Between the establishment of the first Anglican congregation in Boston in 1686 and the year 1720, the community experienced many changes. In 1690 Boston was the largest town in America with a population of about 7000 residents that increased to an estimated 12,000 persons in 1720.1 The economic and political influence of merchants, built on a flourishing and expanding maritime commerce, affected town and provincial affairs. Following the revocation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s charter in 1684 and the establishment of royal government in 1686, imperial government encountered unsettled political circumstances in the 1690s and an uneasy acceptance under governors Joseph Dudley and Samuel Shute between 1702 and 1719. Both men were Anglicans and members of the S.P.G. Yet as G. B. Warden has persuasively recounted, from 1692 to 1775 `the Bostonians steadfastly refused to elect any Anglican as a Representative to the General Court (legislature) and elected only one Anglican Selectman’.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A War of ReligionA Handmaiden for Episcopacy: John Checkley of Boston

Part of the Studies in Modern History Book Series
Bell, James B.
A War of Religion — Oct 30, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
ISBN
978-1-349-36052-9
Pages
33 –41
DOI
10.1057/9780230583214_3
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Abstract

[Between the establishment of the first Anglican congregation in Boston in 1686 and the year 1720, the community experienced many changes. In 1690 Boston was the largest town in America with a population of about 7000 residents that increased to an estimated 12,000 persons in 1720.1 The economic and political influence of merchants, built on a flourishing and expanding maritime commerce, affected town and provincial affairs. Following the revocation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s charter in 1684 and the establishment of royal government in 1686, imperial government encountered unsettled political circumstances in the 1690s and an uneasy acceptance under governors Joseph Dudley and Samuel Shute between 1702 and 1719. Both men were Anglicans and members of the S.P.G. Yet as G. B. Warden has persuasively recounted, from 1692 to 1775 `the Bostonians steadfastly refused to elect any Anglican as a Representative to the General Court (legislature) and elected only one Anglican Selectman’.2]

Published: Oct 30, 2015

Keywords: Church Leader; Anglican Congregation; Imperial Government; Lieutenant Governor; Imperial Authority

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