11To Benjamin Franklin from David Hartley, 3 May 1782 (Franklin Papers)
“Give peace in our time, O Lord,” 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)
A Liturgy, Collected Principally from the Book of Common Prayer, for the Use of the First Episcopal Church in Boston, No. 18938), which their Unitarian pastor, James Freeman, prepared by removing Trinitarian passages from the Book of Common Prayer, following the reformed liturgy made by Dr. Samuel Clarke of London (
15To John Adams from Granville Sharp, 21 January 1786 (Adams Papers)
...forgo the usual oaths of allegiance for American candidates. Through his correspondence with Franklin, Sharp continued to monitor the Episcopal general convention’s revisions to the Book of Common Prayer and liturgy, observing that “America is not the only part wherein Protestant Episcopacy is likely to be extended, when the rights of election are better understood.” Sharp’s reassurances to...
16Convention 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...
17Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 24 June 1791 (Adams Papers)
combines allusions to John Gay’s fable “The Shepherd and the Philosopher,” line 3; Job, 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)
: for the encipherment, TJ used the form of the Lord’s Prayer that appeared in the standard Anglican liturgy, the 1662 revision of the Book of Common Prayer. The 1752 edition of the prayer book that TJ inherited from his father, in which TJ recorded births and other family events, contained this text of the prayer (The Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites...
20To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 8 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
Livingston quoted from the general confession in the Book of Common Prayer.