Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
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Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

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The catalog contains seven chapters each corresponding to an exhibition section, by James H. Hutson and a forward by Jarlslav Pelikan. 144 pp. 75 illus. (20 color). Bibliography and Object list. 8 3/4 x 11" $21.95 plus $5.00 shipping

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Murder of David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, Ghent, 1554
Engraving by J. Luyken, from T. J. V. Bracht (or Thieleman van Braght),
Het Bloedig Tooneel De Martelaers Spiegel. . . .
Amsterdam: J. van der Deyster, et al., 1685
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (1)


Massacre Fait a Sens en Bourgogne par la Populace au Mois d'Avril 1562 . . .
Lithograph in A. Challe, Histoire des Guerres du Calvinisme et de la Ligue dans l'Auxerrois, le Sénonais et les autres contrées qui forment aujourd'hui le département de l'Yonne
Auxerre: Perriquet et Rouille, 1863
General Collections, Library of Congress (2)


Frightful Outrages perpetrated by the Huguenots in France
Engraving from Richard Verstegen, Théâtre des Cruautez des Hérétiques de notre temps
Antwerp: Adrien Hubert, 1607
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (3)


John Ogilvie (Ogilby), Societas Jesu, 1615
Engraving from Mathias Tanner, Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem Militans. . . .
Prague: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, 1675
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (4)


Massacre of the Protestant Martyrs at the Bridge over the River Bann in Ireland, 1641
Engraving from Matthew Taylor, England's Bloody Tribunal: Or, Popish Cruelty Displayed . . . .
London: J. Cooke, 1772
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (5)


Die Societas Jesu in Europa, 1643-1644 [left page] [right page]
from Mathias Tanner, Die Gesellshafft Jesu biss zur vergiessung ihres Blutes wider den Gotzendienst Unglauben und Laster . . .
Prague: Carlo Ferdinandeischen Universitat Buchdruckeren, 1683
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (6)


Lutherans leaving Salzburg, 1731
Engraving by David Böecklin from Die Freundliche Bewillkommung Leipzig: 1732
Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (7)


Salzburgische Emigranten [left page] [right page]
Engraving from [Christopher Sancke?], Ausführliche Historie derer Emigranten
oder Vertriebenen Lutheraner aus dem Erz-Bistum Salzburg
, Leipzig: 1732
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (8)


The Burning of Master John Rogers
Engraving from John Fox, The Third Volume of the Ecclesiastical History containing the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs. . . .
London: Company of Stationers, 9th edition, 1684
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (9)


Mr. John Rogers
Woodblock print from The New-England Primer Improved
Boston: A. Ellison, 1773
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (10)


Richard Mather
Relief cut by John Foster. Copyprint, c. 1670
Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts (11)


Cottonus Matherus S. theologieae doctor regia societas Londonensis. . . .
Mezzotint by Peter Pelham
Boston: 1728, restrike 1860
Prints & Photographs Division (LC-USZC4-4597), Library of Congress (12)


Sermon by Cotton Mather
Holograph manuscript on paper
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (13)


The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament.
Geneva: 1560
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (14)


The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament and the New
London: Robert Baker, 1611
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (15)


The General Laws and Liberties of the Massachusets Colony: Revised and Reprinted [right page] - [left page]
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Samuel Green, 1672
Law Library, Rare Book Collection, Library of Congress (16)


The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Stephen Daye, 1640
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (17)


The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New, Translated into the Indian Language. . . . [left page] - [right page]
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (18)


The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for cause of Conscience, discussed in a Conference between Truth and Peace. . . .
Roger Williams, 1644
Rare Book and Special Collections Division,
Library of Congress (19)


Mary Dyer led to execution on Boston Common, 1 June 1660
Color engraving, Copyprint Nineteenth Century
Courtesy of The Granger Collection, New York (20)


Notes on the State of Virginia [left page] - [right page]
Thomas Jefferson, New York: M. L. and W. A. Davis, 1801
Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress (21)


Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island.
Photograph by Jack Boucher, 1971
Copyprint, Historic American Buildings Survey
Prints and Photographs Division (HABS RI 3 Newp.29-4 1971),
Library of Congress (22)


Torah Breastplate
Gilt silver, c. 1810
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island (24)


Matza board
Wood, Eighteenth Century
Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island (25)


William Penn (age 22), 1666
Oil on canvas Eighteenth-century copy of a seventeenth-century portrait, possibly by Sir Peter Lely
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (26)


The Frame of the Government of the Province of Pennsilvania in America, 1682
William Penn
England: William Bradford, before 1689
Rare Book and Special Collections Division,
Library of Congress (27)


Philadelphia: Quäkerkirche
Wood engraving from Ernst von Hesse Wartegg, Nord-Amerika, seine Stadt und Naturwunder, das Land und seine Bewohner in Schilderung. Leipzig: 1888.
General Collections, Library of Congress (28)


A Collection of Christian & Brotherly Advices [left page] [right page]
Given forth from time to time By the Yearly-Meetings of Friends For Pennsylvania & New Jersey. . . .
Manuscript volume, c. 1682-1763
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (29)


William Penn, Missive van William Penn . . . Geschreven aan de Commissarissen van de vrye Societeyt der Handelaars (Amsterdam, 1684)
[Dutch translation of Penn's 1683 letter to the Free Society Traders]
Rare Book and Special Collections,
Library of Congress (30)


Baptismal Certificate
Pennsylvania German fraktur woodcut with watercolor, 1807
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-58622) (LC-USZC4-4570),
Library of Congress (31)


Das neue Jerusalem
Pennsylvania German fraktur woodcut with watercolor
Early nineteenth century
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-58622),
Library of Congress (32)


Pedilavium das Füsswaschen der Schwestern
Engraving from David Cranz, Kurze, Zuverlässige Nachricht, von der, unter den Namen der Böhmisch-Mährischen Brüder Bekannt, Kirche Unitas fratrum
Halle: 1757
The Library Company of Philadelphia (33)


Cecil Calvert presenting to Lycurgus his Act Concerning Religion
Engraving by James Barry (1741-1806), 1793
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (34)


Maryland Governour and Council (Proceedings)
[page one]
- [page two] - [page three]

Maryland Governour and Council (Proceedings) May 1647- February 1651,
including "An Act Concerning Religion," Manuscript volume
Department of Special Collections, Maryland Archives, Annapolis (35)


Catholic religious medals [left] - [right]
Metal, Seventeenth century
Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland (36 a-d)


Catholic Church at St. Mary's City, Maryland, c.1670 [interior] - [exterior]
Gouache on paper by Leslie Barker. Copyprint, 1997
Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland (36e-f)


A Head of the Madonna
Clay, Seventeenth century
Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland (37)


Ostensorium
Silver gilt, glass, metal, c. 1700
Georgetown University Art Collection, Washington, D.C. (38)


Father Andrew White
Engraving by G.G. Heinsch, 1655, in Mathias Tanner, Societas Jesu apostolorum imitatrix Prague: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, 1694
Special Collections Division, Georgetown University Library (39)


Catechism in Piscataway Indian Language [left page] - [right page]
Father Andrew White,
from Manuale Sacerdotum, 1610
Special Collections Division, Georgetown University Library. (40)


The Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments,
and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church,
According to the Use of the Church of England . . . .

London: by his Majesty's printers, 1662

The Book of Common Prayer in Short-Hand,
According to Mr. Weston's Excellent Method . . . .

London: 1730
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (41-42)


Virginia Church Laws, 1618
Manuscript volume, Eighteenth-century copy
Virginia Miscellaneous Records, 1606-1692 (the Bland Manuscript)
Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress (43)


The Baptism of Pocahontas, 1614
Oil study for mural by John Gadsby Chapman, c. 1837-40
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Educational Trust (44)


Jamestown Communion set
Silver, 1661
The Trustees and Vestry of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg (45)


License and ordination papers of Anglican priest with special carrying case
Vellum and metal, 1773
Washington National Cathedral, Rare Book Library (46)


Nieuw Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan
Etching, c. 1690. Facsimile
Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress (47)


A View of Fort George with the City of New York
Engraving by I. Carwithan, c. 1730
Geography & Map Division (LC-USZ62-19360),
Library of Congress (48)


Prospect of the City of New York
Woodcut from Hugh Gaine, New York Almanac, 1771. Copyprint
The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts (49)


St. James Church, Goose Creek, Berkeley County, South Carolina
[exterior view]
- [interior view]

Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), c. 1930
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-J7-SC-1476), (LC-J7-SC-1479a),
Library of Congress (50-51)


A South East view of Christ's Church
Engraving in Columbian Magazine, November 1787- December 1787, Philadelphia: 1787
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (52)


Exterior of South Quay Baptist Church, Copyprint
Interior of Mt. Shiloh Baptist Church , Copyprint
Virginia Baptist Historical Society (53-54)


A S.W. view of the Baptist Meeting House, Providence, R.I.
Engraving by S. Hill for Massachusetts Magazine or Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment, August 1789
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (55)


In Side of the Old Lutheran Church in 1800, in York, Pa.
Watercolor with pen and ink by Lewis Miller, c. 1800
The Historical Society of York County, Pennsylvania (56)


Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke London: A. Millar, H. Woodruff, et al., 1765
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (57-58)


Christianity Not Mysterious: or,
a Treatise shewing, That there is nothing in the Gospel Contrary to Reason, . . . .

John Toland London: 1696
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (59)


The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honourable Henry St. John,
Lord Viscount Bolingbroke [left page]
- [right page]

Henry Saint-John, Viscount Bolingbroke, London: David Mallet, 1754
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (60)


Literary Commonplace Book [left page] - [right page]
Thomas Jefferson, Holograph Manuscript
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (61)


George Whitefield
Oil on canvas, attributed to Joseph Badger (1708-1765), c. 1743-65,
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. H.P. (Sarah O.) Oliver to Harvard College, 1852 (62)


Portable field pulpit
Oak, c. 1742-1770
American Tract Society,
Garland, Texas (63)


The Marks of the New Birth. A Sermon. . . .
George Whitefield
New York: William Bradford, 1739
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (64)


The Reverend Mr. George Whitefield A.M.
Mezzotint by John Greenwood, after Nathaniel Hone, 1769. Copyprint.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. (65)


Dr. Squintum's Exaltation or the Reformation
Engraving, London: 1763
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-108255),
Library of Congress (66)


George Whitefield's Burial
Woodcut from Phillis [Wheatley], An Elegiac Poem on the Death of that celebrated Divine and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and learned George Whitefield
Boston: Ezekiel Russell, 1770
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (67)


Jonathan Edwards
White pine tinted with oils, C. Keith Wilbur, M.D., 1982
Courtesy of the artist (68)


A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls
Jonathan Edwards, London: John Oswald, 1737
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (69)


Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards, Boston: 1741
Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (70)


The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God. Extracted from Mr. Edwards
John Wesley, London: William Strahan, 1744
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (71)


Gilbert Tennent
Oil on canvas, attributed to Gustavus Hesselius (1682-1755)
Princeton University (72)


The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
Gilbert Tennent, A.M.
Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin, 1740
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (73)


An Account of the College of New Jersey [left page] - [right page]
Samuel Blair
Woodbridge, New Jersey: James Parker, 1764
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (74)


Samuel Davies
Oil on canvas
Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education,
Richmond, Virginia (75)


Presbyterian communion tokens
Metal, c.1800
Courtesy of Martha Hopkins and Nancy Hopkins-Garriss (76)


View on Jones's Falls, Baltimore, Sept. 13, 1818
Engraving and watercolor on paper by J. Hill
Robert C. Merrick Print Collection, Prints and Photographs Department,
Maryland Historical Society Library, Baltimore. (77a)


Baptism in Schuylkill River
Woodcut from Morgan Edwards, Materials Towards A History of the American Baptists
Copyprint, Philadelphia: 1770
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (77b)


Francis Asbury
Oil on canvas by Charles Peale Polk, 1794
Lovely Lane Museum of United Methodist Historical Society, Baltimore (78)


The Rigging House
Color lithograph by A. R. Robinson, 1846
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (79)


Methodist Itinerant System
G. Stebbins and G. King, Broadside
New York: John Totten, 1810-11 [?]
Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (80)


Historical and Political Reflections on the Rise and Progress
of the American Rebellion [page 54]
- [page 55]

Joseph Galloway, London: G. Wilkie, 1780
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (81)


Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of the West Church in Boston . . .
Etching by Giovanni Cipriani, London: 1767
The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts (82)


Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers
Jonathan Mayhew, D.D.
Boston: D. Fowle and D. Gookin,1750
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (83)


The Hanging of Absalom
Silk, Weft-silk fabric, foil wrapped threads, paper, watercolor,
attributed to Faith Robinson Trumbull (1718-1780) c. 1770
Lyman Allyn Art Museum at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut (84)


An Attempt to Land a Bishop in America
Engraving from the Political Register, London: September, 1769
John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, Providence, RI (86)


God Arising And Pleading His People's Cause;
Or The American War . . . Shewn To Be The Cause Of God

Abraham Keteltas
Newbury-Port: John Mycall for Edmund Sawyer, 1777
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (87)


The Yankie Doodles Intrenchments Near Boston 1776
Etching. Copyprint
British Museum, London, England (88)


John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg
Oil on canvas, by an unidentified American artist, Nineteenth century
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania (89)


Reverend James Caldwell at the Battle of Springfield
Watercolor by Henry Alexander Ogden
Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia (90)


Gostelowe Standard No. 10, c. 1776
Watercolor once in possession of Edward W. Richardson. Copyprint
Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution and Its Color Guard (91)


John Witherspoon
Oil on canvas, by Rembrandt Peale after Charles Wilson Peale, 1794
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (92)


To those of our Brethren who have disowned us
Broadside, July 9, 1781
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (93)


Free Quaker Meeting House, SW corner 5th and Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Photograph
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (94)


Book of Common Prayer
England: John Baskerville, c. 1762
Washington National Cathedral Rare Books Library (95)


Book of Common Prayer [left page] - [right page]
Here is a facsimile of the page from the Book of Common Prayer, containing the prayers for the king, that were altered in various ways.
Oxford: Printed by Mark Basket, printer to the University, 1763, Copyprint
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (95a)


Book of Common Prayer
London: Mark Basket, 1766
Courtesy of the Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestrymen of Christ Church, Philadelphia (96)


The American Times: A Satire in Three Parts in which are delineated . . .
the Leaders of the American Rebellion

Jonathan Odell, London: 1780
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (97)


The Case of the Episcopal Churches in the United States Considered
William White
Philadelphia: David Claypoole, 1782
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (98)


The Ordination of Bishop Asbury, and the Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Engraving by A. Gilchrist Campbell, 1882, after a painting by Thomas Coke Ruckle
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Gift of the Lovely Lane Museum, Baltimore (99)


Acts and Proceedings of the Synod of New-York and Philadelphia,
A.D.1787, & 1788 [left page]
- [right page]

Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1788
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (100)


The Prayer in the First Congress, A.D. 1774
Stained glass and lead, from The Liberty Window, Christ Church, Philadelphia,
after a painting by Harrison Tompkins Matteson, c. 1848
Courtesy of the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Christ Church, Philadelphia (101)


Congressional resolution, paying military personnel [left page] - [right page]
Broadside, April 22, 1782
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (102)


George Duffield
Oil on canvas by Charles Peale Polk, 1790
Independence National Historical Park Collection, Philadelphia (103)


Legend for the Seal of the United States, August 1776 [left side] - [right side]
Holograph notes, Benjamin Franklin (left) and Thomas Jefferson (right)
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (104-105)


Proposed Great Seal of the United States: "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God"
Drawing by Benson Lossing, for Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July 1856.
General Collections, Library of Congress. (106)


Congressional Fast Day Proclamation, March 16, 1776
Broadside
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (107)


Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, November 1, 1777
Broadside
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (108)


Congressional Fast Day Proclamation, March 20, 1779
Broadside
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (109)


Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, October 11, 1782
Broadside
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (110)


Rules and Articles, for the better Government of the Troops . . . of the Twelve united English Colonies of North America [page 4] - [page 5]
Philadelphia: William and Thomas Bradford, 1775
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (111)


To all brave, healthy, able bodied well disposed young men. . . .
Recruiting poster for the Continental Army
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (112)


Extracts from the Journals of Congress, relative to the Capture and Condemnation of Prizes, and filling out Privateers, together with the Rules and Regulations of the Navy, and Instructions to Private Ships of War [page 16] - [page 17]
Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1776
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (113)


Horn beaker with scrimshaw portrait of Esek Hopkins
Horn, c. 1876
Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia (114)


Congressional resolution, September 12, 1782,
endorsing Robert Aitken's Bible [page 468]
-- [page 469]

Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1782 from the Journals of Congress
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (115)


The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments:
Newly translated out of the Original Tongues. . . .

Philadelphia: printed and sold by R. Aitken, 1782
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (116)


An Ordinance for ascertaining the Mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory, 1785
Broadside, Continental Congress, 1785
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (117)


An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States,
North-West of the River Ohio, 1787

Broadside, Continental Congress, 1787
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (118)


Resolution granting lands to Moravian Brethren [left page] - [right page]
Records of the Continental Congress in the Constitutional Convention, July 27, 1787
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. (119)


Delaware Indian and English Spelling Book for the Schools of the Mission
of the United Brethren [left page]
- [right page]

David Zeisberger
Philadelphia: Mary Cist, 1806
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (120)


A Defense of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande
John Jewel , London: Henry Wykes, 1570
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (121)


The Humble Advice of the Assembly of Divines by Authority of Parliament sitting at Westminster; Concerning a Confession of Faith
London: S. Griffin, 1658
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (122)


The Duty of Civil Rulers, to be nursing Fathers to the Church of Christ: A Sermon. . . .
Edward Dorr, Hartford: Thomas Green, 1765
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (123)


Fast Day Proclamation, April 15, 1775
Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Broadside
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (124)


Petition to the Virginia Assembly from Amherst County, Virginia, November 27, 1783
[page one]
- [page two] - [page three] - [page four]

The Library of Virginia (125)


A sermon preached before the honorable Council, and the honorable House of Representatives, of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, at Boston, May 27, 1778
Phillips Payson, Boston: John Gill, 1778
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (126)


Government and Liberty Described and Ecclesiastical Tyranny Exposed
Isaac Backus, Boston: Powars and Willis, 1778
Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (127)


Rev. Isaac Baccus, AM
Trask Library, Andover Theological Seminary,
Newton Centre, Massachusetts (128)


The Boston Gazette and the Country Journal, November 27, 1780
"Irenaeus"
Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (129)


A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from Account of Frame of Government agreed upon by the Delegates of the People. . . .
[left page]
- [right page]

Boston: Benjamin Edes & Sons, 1780. Copyprints
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (130-130a )


Proposed Resolution of the Maryland House of Delegates
Broadside, January 12, 1785
Broadside Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (131)


A Bill Establishing a Provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion
Patrick Henry, Virginia House of Delegates, December 24, 1784, Broadside
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (133)


Patrick Henry
Stipple engraving by Leney, after Thomas Sully
Published by J. Webster, 1817, Copyprint
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-4907), Library of Congress (134)


James Madison
Miniature portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1783
Rare Book and Special Collections Division (LC-USZ62-5310), Library of Congress (135)


John Marshall
Engraving with ink and ink wash, by Charles-Balthazar-Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin, 1808
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-54940), Library of Congress (136)


George Washington to George Mason, October 3, 1785
Manuscript copy, Letterbook 1785-1786
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (137)


Petition to the Virginia General Assembly, from Surry County, Virginia, November 14, 1785
[page one]
- [page two] - [page three] - [page four] - [page five]

Manuscript
The Library of Virginia (138)


Petition to the Virginia General Assembly, Westmoreland County, Virginia, November 27, 1785 [left page] - [right page]
The Library of Virginia (139)


Summons to Nathaniel Saunders, August 22, 1772 [cover] - [summons]
Manuscript
Virginia Baptist Historical Society (140)


The Dunking of David Barrow and Edward Mintz in the Nansemond River, 1778
Oil on canvas by Sidney King, 1990
Virginia Baptist Historical Society (141)


To the Honorable the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia:
A Memorial and Remonstrance

Holograph manuscript, June 1785
James Madison
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (142)


Richard Henry Lee to James Madison, November 26, 1784
[page one]
- [page two] - [page three] - [page four]

Manuscript letter
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (143)


An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, January 1786
Thomas Jefferson, Laidler, July 1786
Broadside
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (144)


Speech to the Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787
Benjamin Franklin, Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (145)


Constitution of the United States (William Jackson Copy), Committee of Detail report
Broadside, August 6, 1787
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (146)


Proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States
[page one]
- [page two] - [page three] - [page four]

Virginia Ratifying Convention, Broadside, June 27, 1788
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (147)


Objections to the Federal Constitution, [February 1788]
[page one]
- [page two]

John Leland
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (148)


Notes for a speech introducing the Bill of Rights, [June 8, 1789]
[page one]
- [page two]

James Madison, Holograph notes
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (149)


The Bill of Rights (the John Beckley copy) September 28, 1789
Holograph manuscript on vellum
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (150)


George Washington
Chalk drawing on paper, ca. 1800, by St. Memin
Prints and Photograph Division (LC-USC4-4619),
Library of Congress (151)


The Vestry Book of Truro Parish, Virginia, 1732-1802
Manuscript volume
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (152)


Circular to the chief executives of the states, June 11, 1783
George Washington, Manuscript
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (153)


George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in New Port, Rhode Island
[page one]
- [page two]

Manuscript copy, Letterbook 1790-1794
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (154)


Draft of Washington's Farewell Address, [July] 1796
Alexander Hamilton
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (155)


The Farewell Address [page one] - [page two] - [page three]
George Washington, Broadside
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (156)


John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, April 19, 1817
[page one]
- [page two] - [page three] - [page four]

Holograph letter
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (157)


Fast Day Proclamation, March 23, 1798
John Adams, Broadside
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (158)


The Providential Detection
Etching by an unknown artist, c. 1800
The Library Company of Philadelphia (159)


Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
[page one]
- [page two] - [page three]

Holograph letter and syllabus (Copyprint of verso)
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (160)


The Lord's Prayer
Thomas Jefferson, Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (161)


The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French & English
[title page]
- [index page one] -- [index page two] -- [index page three]

Thomas Jefferson, c. 1820
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (162a)


The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French & English
[page one]
- [page two]

Thomas Jefferson. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904
General Collections, Library of Congress (162c)


Thomas Jefferson to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins and Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association in the state of Connecticut, January 1, 1802
Holograph draft letter, 1802
Jefferson Papers
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (163a)


Thomas Jefferson to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins and Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association in the state of Connecticut, January 1, 1802
Letter, digitally revised to expose obliterated sections. Copyprint
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (163b)


Journal entry, January 3, 1802
Manasseh Cutler
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library (164)


Manasseh Cutler to Joseph Torrey, January 3, 1803
[page one]
-- [page two] -- [page three] -- [page four]

In this letter Manasseh Cutler informs Joseph Torrey that Thomas Jefferson "and his family have constantly attended public worship in the Hall" of the House of Representatives.
Manuscript letter
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library (165)


Reminiscences [left page] - [right page]
Margaret Bayard Smith, 1837. Manuscript volume. (Copyprint of verso)
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (166-166a)


Catherine Akerly Mitchill to her sister, Margaret Miller, April 8, 1806
Manuscript letter
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (167)


Abijah Bigelow to Hannah Bigelow, December 28, 1812
[left page]
- [right page]

Manuscript letter
The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts (168)


"The President's Own" United States Marine Corp Band, ca. 1798
Watercolor, Lt. Col. Donna Neary, USMCR, late twentieth century, Copyprint
United States Marine Corp Band, Washington, D.C. (169)


The Old House of Representatives
Oil on canvas by Samuel F.B. Morse, 1822. Copyprint.
In the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund (170)


A Sermon on the Second Coming of Christ, and on the Last Judgment
Delivered the 25th December, 1804 before both houses of Congress, at the Capitol in the city of Washington. John Hargrove. Baltimore: Warner & Hanna, 1805
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (171)


The substance of a discourse preached in the hall of the House of Representatives of the United States, January 8, 1826
John England. Baltimore: F. Lucas, 1826
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (172)


John England, Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina
Oil on canvas
Diocese of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina (173)


Harriet Livermore
Engraving by J.B. Longacre, from a painting by Waldo and Jewett, 1827
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (174)


Journal entry, December 23, 1804
Manasseh Cutler. Manuscript
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library (175)


Washington City, 1820
Watercolor sketch by Baroness Hyde de Neuville, 1820
I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art,
Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (176)


Diary entry, February 2, 1806
John Quincy Adams. Copyprint
Adams Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston (177)


The Old Supreme Court Chamber, ca. 1810, U. S. Capitol Building
Photograph by Franz Jantzen, Copyprint
Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States (178)


The House of Representatives, 1866
Chromo-lithograph by E. Sachse & Co, 1866
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-4523),
Library of Congress (179)


Fundraising brochure
Charles B. Boynton. Washington, D.C.: November 1, 1867
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (180)


The Age of Reason. Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
Thomas Paine. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by the Booksellers, 1794
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (181)


Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
Engraving by James Gillray. London: published by H. Humphrey, 1792
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-1550),
Library of Congress (182)


The Tree of Life
Hand-colored engraving. Baltimore: printed for John Hagerty, 1791
Maryland Historical Society Library, Baltimore, Maryland (183)


Sacramental Scene in a Western Forest
Lithograph by P.S. Duval, ca. 1801, from Joseph
Smith, Old Redstone. Copyprint. Philadelphia: 1854.
General Collections, Library of Congress (184)


Plan of the Camp, August 8, 1809
Journal of Benjamin Latrobe, August 23, 1806- August 8, 1809
Sketch by Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Latrobe Papers, Manuscript Department, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore (185)


Methodist camp meeting, March 1, 1819
Engraving
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-2497),
Library of Congress. (186)


Religious Camp Meeting
Watercolor by J. Maze Burbank, c. 1839
Old Dartmouth Historical Society-New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Gift of William F. Havemeyer (187)


Samuel Wakefield, The Christian's Harp . . . suited to the various Metres now in use among the different Religious Denominations . . . in the United States
Pittsburgh: Johnston and Stockton, 1837

The Easy Instructor; or, A New Method of Teaching Sacred Harmony
William Little and William Smith
Albany: Websters & Skinner and Daniel Steele, c. 1798
Music Division, Library of Congress (188-189)


Bishops of the A.M.E. Church
Engraving by John H. W. Burley, Washington, D. C., 1876.
Boston: J. H. Daniels, 1876
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-15059),
Library of Congress (190)


Mrs. Juliann Jane Tillman, Preacher of the A.M.E. Church
Engraving by P. S. Duval, after a painting by Alfred Hoffy, Philadelphia, 1844
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-54596),
Library of Congress (191)


Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, Rankin City, Mississippi, to Upper King and Queen Baptist Church, Newtown, Virginia [left page] - [right page]
Manuscript letter, June 1837
Virginia Baptist Historical Society (192)


Absalom Jones
Oil on canvas on board by Raphaelle Peale, 1810
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington. Gift of the Absalom Jones School (193)


Receipt, signed by Absalom Jones, December 26, 1801
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (193a)


Negro Methodists Holding a Meeting in a Philadelphia Alley
Watercolor by John Lewis Krimmel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1942 (194)


Lorenzo Dow and the Jerking Exercise
Engraving by Lossing-Barrett, from Samuel G. Goodrich, Recollections of a Lifetime
Copyprint. New York: 1856
Prints and Photograph Division (LC-USZ62-38407),
Library of Congress (195)


Shakers near Lebanon state of New York, their mode of worship
Stipple and line engraving, drawn from life
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-13659),
Library of Congress (196)


Pioneers in the Great Religious Reformation of the Nineteenth Century
Steel engraving by J. C. Buttre, after a drawing by J. D. C. McFarland, c. 1885
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (197)


Book of Mormon: An Account written by the Hand of Mormon,
upon plates taken from the Plates of Nephi

Joseph Smith, Junior. Palmyra, N.Y.: E.B. Grandin, 1830
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (198)


Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage Jail, June 27, 1844
Tinted lithograph by Nagel & Weingaertner,
after C. G. Crehen. New York: 1851
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-765),
Library of Congress (199)


Route of the Mormon Pioneers from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake,
Feb'y 1846-July 1847 [left]
- [right]

Map, copyright by Millroy and Bates, 1899. Facsimile
Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (200)


Evangelical tracts, American Tract Society
[top left]
- [top right] - [bottom left] - [bottom right]

YA Pamphlet Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. (201-4)


Family handing out tracts
Woodcut by Anderson from The American Tract Magazine, August 1825.
American Tract Society, Garland, Texas (205)


The Floating Church of Our Saviour...For Seamen (Built New York Feb.15th, 1844. . . )
Steel engraving, Copyprint
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (206)


Missionary Table from The Seventeenth Report of the American Home Missionary Society
New York: William Osborn, 1842
American Home Missionary Society Papers, Amistad Research Center,
Tulane University, New Orleans (207)


The surveyed part of Wisconsin
Map from The Home Missionary, volume XII, November 1839
New York: N. Currier, c. 1839
General Collections, Library of Congress (208)


The Circuit Preacher
Engraving of a drawing by A. R. Waud, from Harper's Weekly, October 12, 1867. Copyprint
Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-2497),
Library of Congress (209)


Saddle bags
Leather, used c. 1872-1889
Lovely Lane Museum of United Methodist Historical Society, Baltimore (210)


Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville, Translated by Henry Reeve
London: Saunders and Otley, 1835
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (211)


The Epitome of Ecclesiastical History
Engraving by Amos Doolittle. New Haven: 1806
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (212)
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