From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel JohnsonColumbia University Press, 1980 - 362 pages |
Contents
Fathers and Sons | 1 |
From Pulpit to Bar | 17 |
Ecclesiastical Warfare on Every Front | 35 |
Rise to Prominence | 49 |
A Connecticut Yankee in London | 71 |
Townshend Lays His Taxes | 81 |
Conspiracy or Confusion? | 105 |
Defeat and Disillusionment | 125 |
The Moment of Decision | 163 |
The War Years | 179 |
The Quest for Union | 195 |
The Great Debate | 211 |
A Young University with an Aged President | 239 |
The Final Years | 265 |
Notes | 275 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Common terms and phrases
agents Anglican appointed April Assembly August Bedfordites Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Gale Bishop Boston Britain British Empire charter Church of England colonists Colony of Connecticut colony's Columbia committee Convention December Dennys De Berdt dispute duties election Eliphalet Dyer Episcopal Church fear February Fitch Gentle Puritan George Gipson Governor Grenville Hillsborough ibid January Jared Ingersoll John Johnson to Jonathan Johnson to Robert Johnson to Samuel Johnson to William Jonathan Trumbull Journals of Congress July June legislature Letters of Congress liberty London loyalist March Massachusetts ment Merchants minister ministry Morgan November October Old Light Parliament parliamentary patriots Pennsylvania petition Philadelphia political Pownall president proposal Public Records Puritan Puritan Protagonist regents repeal Richard Jackson Roger Sherman Samuel Seabury September Stamp Act Crisis Stratford Susquehannah Papers Thomas Thomas Whately tion town Townshend Acts Trumbull Papers trustees vote Whately Wilkes William Pitkin William Samuel Johnson WSJ Papers Yale York