1From Benjamin Franklin to John Baskerville, [1760?] (Franklin Papers)
...Baskerville’s Milton had appeared and at least two of the Book of Common Prayer, and the...
2Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 18 July 1771 (Washington Papers)
...it had been published in combination with numerous versions of the Book of Common Prayer.
3Franklin’s Contributions to an Abridgment of the Book of Common Prayer, [before 5 August 1773] (Franklin Papers)
...of the Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites...
4From Benjamin Franklin to David Williams, 21 February 1774 (Franklin Papers)
For his interest see the abridgment of the Book of Common Prayer above
5Two Notes about the Opening of the Essex House Chapel, [17 April 1774] (Franklin Papers)
The Book of Common Prayer Reformed
6To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Coombe, Jr., 24 September 1774 (Franklin Papers)
The Book of Common Prayer Reformed According to the Plan of the Late Dr....
expunging from the Book of Common Prayer, such Parts as interfere with the Interest of the...
8V. Notes on Acts of Parliament and of the Virginia Assembly concerning Religion, 11 October – 9 December 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
...at any form of prayer but ‘the book of Common prayer imprisonmt. for 6. months 1st. offnce...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Christopher Baldwin, 18 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer
1086. A Bill Annulling Marriages Prohibited by the Levitical Law, and Appointing the Mode of Solemnizing Lawful Marriage … (Jefferson Papers)
...banns according to the rubric in the book of common prayer”; only ministers could perform...
11To Benjamin Franklin from David Hartley, 3 May 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...,” a quotation from the morning prayer (Mattins) of The Book of Common Prayer.
12To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Sr., 3 April 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer
13Extracts of John Baynes’s Journal, 27 August–15 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer:
14Royall Tyler to John Adams, 15 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
..., Collected Principally from the Book of Common Prayer, for the Use of the First Episcopal...
15To John Adams from Granville Sharp, 21 January 1786 (Adams Papers)
...general convention’s revisions to the Book of Common Prayer and liturgy, observing that “...
16Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church to the Church of England Archbishops and Bishops, 26 June 1786 (Jay Papers)
...made no alterations or omissions in the Book of Common Prayer but such as that consideration...
17Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 24 June 1791 (Adams Papers)
..., 5:26; Psalms, 22:26 (as rendered in the Book of Common Prayer); and Matthew, 20:1–16.
18Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
The Book of Common Prayer,
19II. Sample Encipherment: The Lord’s Prayer, [18 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
...appeared in the standard Anglican liturgy, the 1662 revision of the Book of Common Prayer. The...
20To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 8 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
Livingston quoted from the general confession in the Book of Common Prayer.
21Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Joseph Milligan, [ca. 16 August 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
The Book of Common Prayer [index entry]
22Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Books to be Acquired by Joseph Milligan, [ca. 28 March 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
the Book of Common prayer. an 8
23Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
...fighteth for us, but only thou, O God” (The Book of Common-Prayer [London, 1662;
The wardens paraphrased from the Book of Common Prayer, Psalms 67:5–6: “Let all the people...
25Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Staël Holstein, 6 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
...or Prayer for all conditions of men” in The Book of Common Prayer (London, 1662, and other eds...
26To James Madison from Frederick Dalcho, 13 August 1819 (Madison Papers)
...collaborated on the American revision of the Book of Common Prayer. In 1787 he was consecrated...
27Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The litany of The Book of Common Prayer (London, 1662, and other eds.;
28From James Madison to Edward Everett, 19 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
...be drawn directly from the Bible and not from the Book of Common Prayer (Robert A. McCaughey...