Walker, George Leon. History of the First Church of Hartford. Hartford, 1884.
----Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England with special reference to Congregationalists. New York, Boston and Chicago, 1897.
Walter, Williston. The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism. New York, 1893.
----A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States. (American Church History Series). New York, 1894.
White, Daniel Appleton. New England Congregationalism in its Origin and Purity: ill.u.s.trated by the foundation and early records of First Church in Salem. Salem, 1861.
Wolcott, Roger. A Letter to Rev. Mr. Noah Hobart. [The New English Congregational Churches.... Consociated Churches.] Boston, 1761.
3. EPISCOPALIAN
Beardsley, E. Edwards, D. D. History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. New York, 1865-68. 2 vols.
An account of the church in Connecticut with strong church bias and inclination to excuse the Tory sentiments of the early rectors. Second volume gives the Episcopal side of the "Toleration"
conflict of 1817-18. Much interesting detail.
Church Review and Ecclesiastical Register. In American Quarterly Church Review, vol. x, p. 116. New Haven and New York, 1848-91.
Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Historical Society, The. New York, 1851-53. 2 vols.
These MSS. are found in Perry and Hawks"s Doc.u.mentary History, and include a valuable article on the Episcopate before the Revolution, by F. L. Hawks, also "Thoughts upon the present state of the Church of England in the Colonies," [1764] by an unknown contemporary.
Cross, Arthur Lyon. The History of the Anglican Episcopate and the American Colonies. New York and London, 1902.
Hawkins, E. Historical Notices of the Missions of the Church of England in the North American Colonies. London, 1845.
Chiefly drawn from MS. doc.u.ments of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
Hawks (Frances Lister) and Perry (William Stevens). Doc.u.mentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. Containing ... doc.u.ments concerning the Church in Connecticut. New York, 1863-34. 2vols.
See Perry, William Stevens.
McConnell, Samuel Davis. History of the American Episcopal Church. New York, 1890.
A brief general history with a number of pages devoted to the attempts to establish the Episcopate in America and to the political hostility that it roused.
Perry, William Stevens (Bishop of Iowa). [See F. L. Hawks.]
Doc.u.mentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church. New York, 1863-64. 2 vols.
Unbiased; arranged under topical heads; has ill.u.s.trated monographs by different authors; ill.u.s.trations, including facsimiles; and also critical notes, frequently referring to original sources. It contains many letters from the missions established by the London Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Shaw, W. A. A History of the Church of England. 2 vols.
4. METHODIST
Asbury"s (Francis) Journal. New York, 1821. 3 vols. A brief diary of all Bishop Asbury"s American journeys: Vols. ii and iii concern New England, with comments on his surroundings, his preaching and the people.
Bangs, Nathan. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York, 1841-45. 4 vols.
Clark, Edgar F. The Methodist Episcopal Churches of Norwich. Norwich, 1867.
Convenient secondary authority gives, pp. 6-21, a connected account of the early days of Connecticut Methodism.
Scudder, Moses Lewis. American Methodism. Hartford, 1870.
General att.i.tude of New England towards the introduction of Methodism.
Stevens, Abel. Memorials of the Introduction of Methodism into the Eastern States. Boston, 1848.
Biographical notices of the early preachers, sketches of the earlier societies, and reminiscences of struggles and successes. "Some account of every Methodist preacher who was regularly appointed to New England during the first five years" of New England Methodism, derived from original sources, letters, and from books now out of print. The fullest account of Connecticut Methodists. It contains frequent citations from Jesse Lee"s diary.
Appendix A contains valuable statistics; appendix B has a scurrilous pamphlet, "A Key to unlock Methodism, or Academical Hubbub," etc., published in Norwich, 1800.
----The Centenary of American Methodism: a Sketch of its History, Theology, Practical System, and Success. New York, 1866.
----The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century, called Methodism. New York, 1858-61. 3 vols.
5. QUAKERS, OR THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
Besse, Joseph. A Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers, for the Testimony of a Good Conscience, etc., to the year 1689. London, 1753. 2 vols.
Vol. ii contains a full account of their persecutions, together with copies of the proceedings against them and letters from the sufferers.
Bowden, James. History of the Society of Friends in America. New York and London, 1845. 2 vols.
A history of the sect throughout New England, containing many short biographies. It is fair and frank in its record of New England persecutions. The author adopts the unique plea that the excesses of the converts were inspired by the Holy Spirit as a reproof to their persecutors for the kind of persecution and punishment that was meted out to innocent persons.
Evans, Charles. Friends in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia, 1876.
Gough, John. History of the People called Quakers. Dublin, 1789-90. 4 vols.
Hallowell, Richard Price. The Pioneer Quakers. Boston and New York, 1887.
Ma.n.u.script Records of Early Newport Yearly (Friends") Meetings--at Friends" School, Providence, R. I.
Minutes of meetings, reports of cases of oppression, of converts, etc.
Sewel, William. The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers, Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences. Written originally in Low Dutch by W. S. and by himself translated into English.
1st ed., Amsterdam, 1717; 2d ed., London, 1722; 3d ed., 1725, 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1728, etc. New York, 1844. [a]
Wagstaff, William R. History of the Friends (compiled from standard records and authentic sources). New York and London, 1845.
A defense of the excesses in Quaker eccentricities as religious enthusiasm in persons who were driven by persecution to the verge of madness. A similar view is expressed by R. P. Hallowell and by Brooks Adams in his "Emanc.i.p.ation of Ma.s.sachusetts."
F. TRACTS (RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL OR BOTH)