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3, No. 2 (2013). Presbyterian and Congregational advocates of covenant theology did not, of course, accept the high-church Church of England argument that episcopal ordination was a condition of the covenant.

23. Perry, Historical Collections, 3:346.

24. Perry, Historical Collections, 3:380.

25. John Frederick Woolverton, Colonial Anglicanism in North America (Detroit: Wayne State Press, 1986), 196.

26. Patricia U. Bonomi and Peter R. Eisenstadt, “Church Adherence in the Eighteenth-Century British American Colonies,” William and Mary Quarterly (3d series) 39 (Apri1 1982): 272.

27. Deborah Mathias Gough, “The Colonial Church: Founding the Church, 1695–1775,” This Far by Faith: Tradition and Change in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, ed. David R. Contosta (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), 35.

28. David C. Humphrey, From King’s College to Columbia, 1746– 1800 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976), 34–5, and 77.

29. Gough, “The Colonial Church,” 28.

30. Humphrey, From King’s College to Columbia, 77; Ahlstrom, Religious History, 222–23.

31. Humphrey, King’s College to Columbia, 24–25, and 48; Edwards Beardsley, Life and Correspondence of Samuel Johnson, D.D. (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1874), 200.

32. Kenney, “George Whitefield,” 72, 99–100, 108. In South Carolina and Georgia, Whitefield did attract considerable crowds in 1740. In addition to clergymen Lewis Jones (ca. 1700–1744) of St. Helena Parish in Port Royal, South Carolina, and Thomas Thompson (fl. 1740s) of St. Bartholomew’s Parish, who have been previously mentioned, the vestries of two vacant congregations (Christ Church Parish and St. John’s, Colleton County) were supportive of Whitefield. See Sidney Charles Bolton, “The Anglican Church of Colonial South Carolina, 1704–1754: A Study in Americanization” (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1973), 315–16.

33. Perry, ed., Pennsylvania, vol. 2 of Historical Collections, 319–24, 355; Wardens and vestry of Saint Paul’s Church to Bishop Osbaldeston, 22 June 1762, Fulham Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, England, vol. 7, 320; Wardens of St. Paul’s to Bishop Terrick, Fulham Papers, vol. 8, 48–51.

34. Perry, Historical Collections, 2:360; Kevin J. Dellape, America’s First Chaplain: The Life and Times of the Reverend Jacob Duché (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2013), 46.

35. Perry, Historical Collections, 2:392–93.