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Alexander R. Cain said...

Great series on the Marshfield Loyalists!

For Anglicans, many ministers firmly believed they were bound by oath to be loyal to the king. The Reverend Benjamin Pickman insisted he had to remain loyal out of the “purest Principles of Loyalty to my late Sovereign”. Fellow minister John Amory refused to support the American cause because: “ I could not with a quiet conscience...take an Oath that I would bear Arms against the King of Great Britain to whom I had already sworn Allegiance.”

Can't wait to see tomorrow's post!

Jul 13, 2016, 11:53:55 PM

Posted to Rev. Ebenezer Thompson, Minister to the Marshfield Loyalists