66 Ibid., vol. 5, 8-12-1776.
67 Ibid., vol. 4, 1-27-1776.
68 Ibid., vol. 30, 4-10-1789.
69 Ibid., vol. 30, Proposed Address to Congress.
70 Ibid., vol. 26, Circular to the States
71 Ibid., vol. 30, 4-1789.
72 Ibid., vol. 15, 5-12-1779.
73 Ibid., vol. 30, 4-30-1789.
74 Ibid., vol. 4, ANSWER TO AN ADDRESS FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
75 Ibid., vol. 28, 7-25-1785.
76 Ibid., vol. 15, 5-12-1779.
77 Ibid., vol., 2-14-1784.
78 Ibid., vol. 26, 6-8-1783.
79 See chapter 2.
80 Ibid., vol. 3, 4-25-1773; vol. 29, 4-25-1788; vol. 30, 6-22-1788.
81 Ibid., vol. 29, 10-10-1787; vol. 31, 1-6-1792; vol. 35, 3-2-1797; vol. 35, 3-30-1796 (To Elizabeth Parke Custis law); vol. 35, 3-30-1796 (To Tobias Lear).
82 Ibid., vol. 27, 2-1-1784; vol. 35, 6-24-1797; vol. 35, 6-25-1797; vol. 35, 6-26-1797; vol. 35, 7-4-1797.
83 Ibid., vol. 27, 12-13-1783; vol. 28, 8-18-1786; vol. 30, 8-18-1789; vol. 30, 1-9-1790; vol. 35, 9-19-1796.
84 Ibid., vol. 23, 11-23-1781 vol. 30, 6-20-1788; vol. 30 12-23-1778.
85 Ibid., There are 55 examples. See for example vol. 13, 11-11-1778.
86 Ibid., vol. 3, 4- 25-1773.
87 Ibid., vol. 29, 10-10-1787.
88 Ibid., vol. 35, 3-2-1789.
89 Ibid., vol. 29, 4-25-1788.
90 Ibid., vol. 30, April 1789. Note Boller had no comment on this passage.
91 WGW, vol. 13, 11-11-1778.
92 Ibid., vol. 23, 11-23-1781.
93 The London Chronicle in the September 21 to 23, 1779 edition no. 3561, p. 288.
94 James McGoldrick tells more details of Reverend Boucher’s break with the colonists: “Fearing an open breach with Britain, Boucher tried unsuccessfully to organize the Anglican clergy in America into a solid block of support for the crown. As a minister of the Church of England, Boucher had taken a solemn oath of allegiance to the crown, and no amount of pressure could persuade him to violate it. . . .When Britain closed Boston harbor after the Tea party, American resisters appealed for supplies to be sent to Boston so that the Patriots would suffer no loss of physical necessities. When asked to appeal from his pulpit for aid to the Boston rebels, Boucher refused. After this he was a marked man, and several threats were made against his life.” (James McGoldrick, “1776: A Christian Loyalist View” in Fides Et Historia, fall 1977, p. 32.) The stress of the final days of his ministry in the colonies became so great, that he literally preached with armed force close at hand. Boucher himself wrote, “I never after went into a pulpit without something very disagreeable happening. I received sundry messages and letters threatening me with the most fatal consequences if I did not . . . preach what should be agreeable to the friends of America. All the answer I gave to these threats was in my sermons, in which I uniformly and resolutely declared that I never would suffer any merely human authority to intimidate me from performing what . . . I . . . knew to be my duty to God and His Church.” Jonathan Boucher, Reminiscences of a American Loyalist, ed. J. Bouchier (Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1967), p. 113. Thereafter, Boucher’s pulpit ministry was adorned with pistols on the pulpit itself and his own public declaration of “repelling violence with violence.” (Ibid.)
95 Boucher, Reminiscences, p. 49
96 McGoldrick, “1776: A Christian Loyalist View” p. 33.
97 Flexner, Johnson, His Excellency, etc.
98 WGW, vol. 7, 2-22-1777.
99 Ibid., vol. 37, Last Will and Testament, 1799.
100 Ibid., vol. 25, 11-14-1782.
101 To Lt. Col. John Laurens, he wrote, WGW vol. 20, 10-13-1780
“Believe me sincere when I assure you, that my warmest wishes accompany Captn. Wallops endeavours and your expectations of exchange; and that nothing but the principle of Justice and policy wch. I have religiously adhered to of exchanging Officers in the order of their Captivity (where rank would apply) has prevented my every exertion to obtain your release and restoration to a family where you will be receiv’d with open arms by every individual of it; but from none with more cordiality and true affection than Your Sincere friend etc.” In General Orders he writes,
“The Honorable The Congress having been pleased by their Proclamation of the 21st. of November last to appoint Wednesday the 30th. instant as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise for the great and numerous Providential Mercies experienced by the People of These States in the course of the present War, the same is to be religiously observed throughout the Army in the manner therein directed, and the different Chaplains will prepare discourses suited to the Occasion.”
In General Orders, he writes,
The Honorable Congress having thought proper to recommend to The United States of America to set apart Wednesday the 22nd. instant to be observed as a day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, that at one time and with one voice the righteous dispensations of Providence may be acknowledged and His Goodness and Mercy toward us and our Arms supplicated and implored; The General directs that this day also shall be religiously observed in the Army, that no work be clone thereon and that the Chaplains prepare discourses suitable to the Occasion.”
