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)
, 81–5), according to whose terms TJ himself was married, required not only a license but also “thrice publication of banns according to the rubric in the book of common prayer”; only ministers could perform the ceremony, though in the event that a parish should not have a minister, the clerk or reader could act in his place.
5Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church to the Church of England Archbishops and Bishops, 26 June 1786 (Jay Papers)
consistent with our civil Constitutions; and we have made no alterations or omissions in the Book of Common Prayer but such as that consideration prescribed, and such as were calculated to remove objections, which it appeared to us more conducive to union and general content to obviate, than to dispute. It is well known, that many...
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. Samuel Clarke
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)
...During the American Revolution he became rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia, a position he held until his death. He drafted the constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States and collaborated on the American revision of the Book of Common Prayer. In 1787 he was consecrated first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Pennsylvania, and after
9Franklin’s Contributions to an Abridgment of the Book of Common Prayer, [before 5 August 1773] (Franklin Papers)
Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David...altering the liturgy of the Anglican Church. “Having first reformed himself,” in the words of Paul Leicester Ford, he “conceived the idea of reforming the Book of Common Prayer...
10From Benjamin Franklin to John Baskerville, [1760?] (Franklin Papers)
By that time four editions of Baskerville’s Milton had appeared and at least two of the Book of Common Prayer, and the printer had begun work on a collection of , a folio edition of the Bible, appeared in 1763. During his career he also published handsome editions of the Book of Common Prayer and of the works of other classical and British writers. Baskerville’s type face, thicker in the heavy...