1Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
The Book of Common Prayer,
2To Benjamin Franklin from Christopher Baldwin, 18 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer
3Extracts of John Baynes’s Journal, 27 August–15 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer:
486. 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...
5Convention 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...
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....
7Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The litany of The Book of Common Prayer (London, 1662, and other eds.;
8To 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...
9Franklin’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...
10From 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...