1Royall 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 (
2To 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...
3Convention 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...