Anglicans, dissenters and radical change in early New England, 1686-1786

This volume considers three defining movements driven from London and within the region that describe the experience of the Church of England in New England between 1686 and 1786.

It explores the radical imperial political and religious change that occurred in Puritan New England following the late 17th-century introduction of a new charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Anglican Church in Boston and the public declaration of several Yale 'apostates' at the 1722 college commencement exercises.

These events transformed the religious circumstances of New England and fuelled new attention and interest in London for the national church in early America.