In a message dated Sun May 19, 2002  12:48 am, Graham Weeks <weeks-g@dircon.co.uk>  writes:

> I have this memory that quite a number of the Presbyterians were
> loyalists but others were for a new freedom. (I have tried to use
> non-pejorative terminology).

So many Presbyterians were involved in the plotting and
execution of the Revolution, that the American revolution
was also known in Britain as "The Presbyterian Revolution."

New York anticipated the prayer of Boston. Its people, who had received the port act direly from England, felt the wrong to that town as a wound to themselves, and even the lukewarm kindled with resentment. From the epoch of the stamp act, their Sons of Liberty, styled by the royalists "the Presbyterian junto," had kept up a committee of correspondence.
George Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol.4,
Chapter 1: America Sustains the Town of Boston, May 1774, p.9

Also by loyalists.
In Supplement Extradinary to the NY Journal/General Advertiser,
August 25, 1774, likening the New York Sons of Liberty to
a “Presbyterian junto,” the writer continues, “You will have discovered
that I am no friend to Presbyterians, and that I fix all the blame
of those extraordinary American proceedings upon them.”
During the war, the British army routinely used Presbyterian,
Baptist, and Reformed churches as stables, barracks, and prisons.
See original copies of the newspaper here:

http://independence.nyhistory.org/item.php?item_no=80

Excellent article by Steve Wilkins:

http://www.gbt.org/wilkins/presbyterians_and_the_war_of_ind.htm

On the impact of Calvinism in general on American politics:

http://members.aol.com/VFTfiles/thesis/commentators/Calvin/impact.htm

John Witherspoon, President of Princeton, mentored James Madison,



Kevin Craig
http://VFT.isCool.net/
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