143, Ibid., pp. 56, 58.
144, Ibid., pp. 51-53.
145, Ibid., p. 42.
146, Ibid., p. 156.
147, Ibid., p. 181.
148, Loomis and Calhoun, Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut, p. 55.
149, M. C. Tyler, Literary History of the American Revolution, i, 133.
150, Fulham, MSS. cited in A, L. Cross, Anglican Episcopate in the American Colonies, p. 115. See also pp. 122 et seq. and 332, 345.
151, A. L. Cross, Anglican Episcopate, pp. 164 and 216. Perry, American Episcopal Church, i, 415.
152, Minutes of the a.s.sociation, i, 3.
153, F. M. Caulkins, History of Norwich, p. 363.
154, Conn. Col. Rec., xiii, 360.
155, I. Backus, History of the Baptists, ii, 340.
156, E. D. Lamed, History of Windham County, ii, 103.
157, I. Backus, An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty, Boston, 1773, p. 28.
158, Ibid., p. 13.
159, Ibid., pp. 43-48.
160, John Wise, Vindication, Edition of 1717, p. 84.
161, Public Records of the State of Connecticut, i, 232.
162, Quoted in E. H. Gillett, Civil Liberty in Connecticut, Hist. Magazine, 1868.
163, I. Backus, History of the Baptists, ii, 304.
164, Minutes of Hartford North a.s.sociation.
165, I. Foster, Defense of Religious Liberty, pp. 30, 32; also 135 and 142.
166, Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, 1784, pp. 21, 22, 213, 235.
CHAPTER XII. CONNECTICUT AT THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION.
167, P. K. Kilbourne, History of Litchfield, pp. 166, 169.
168, James Morris, Statistical Account of the Towns of Litchfield County.
169, Judge Church, in his Litchfield County Centennial Address.
170, J. D. Champlin, Jr., "Litchfield Hill."
171, Noah Webster, Collection of Essays (ed. of 1790), p. 379.
172, Ibid., p. 338.
173, Ibid., p. 338.
174, Letter of Sept. 11,1788, one of the series in answer to the quotations from Richard Price"s "Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution." See American Mercury, Feb. 7, 1785. Connecticut Journal, Feb. 16, and Connecticut Courant, Feb. 22, 1785.
175, James Schouler, History of the United States, i, 53.
176, Isaac Backus, The Liberal Support of the Gospel Minister, p. 35.
177, Report of Superintendent of Public Schools, 1853, pp. 62, 63.
178, W. Walker, The Congregationalists, pp. 311 et seq.
179, John Lewis, Christian Forbearance, p. 31.
180, E. Stiles, Diary, i, 21.
181, H. M. Dexter, Congregationalism as seen in Literature, p. 523.
CHAPTER XIII. CERTIFICATE LAWS AND WESTERN LAND BILLS.
182, Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut (ed. of 1784), pp. 403, 404.
183, Courant, May 28, 1791.
184, Ibid., May 28, 1791.
185, J. Leland, High Flying Churchman, pp. 10, 11, 16, 17.
186, Acts and Laws (ed. of 1784), p. 418.
187, Ibid., p. 417.
188, Cited from Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools, 1853, p. 65.
189, The American Mercury, Feb. 24 and Apr. 17, 1794.