TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. zist BY FRANCIS L. HAWKS, RECTOR OF ST. THOMAS' CHURCH, NEW-YORK. VOL. I. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NO. 82 OLIFF STREET. 183 6. 20 Jay 3 Mopmar [Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, By FRANCIS L. HAWKS, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.] A NARRATIVE OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN VIRGINIA. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE JOURNALS OF THE CONVENTIONS IN VIRGINIA FROM THE COM- NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, No. 82 CLIFF-STREET. 1836. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM WHITE, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocess of Pennsylvania, and Senior Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. RIGHT REVEREND AND DEAR SIR, If it were in my power to consult my brethren of the clergy, I am sure that all would name you as the individual to whom a work, concerning any part of the Protestant Episcopal church in this country should most properly be inscribed. To this consideration of propriety, allow me to add, that I, at least, find another in the ready kindness and advice with which you have furthered my purposes, and encouraged my efforts in the prosecution of this work. I beg leave, therefore, to offer it as the humble tribute of affectionate respect justly due to one who for more than half a century has watched the progress of the church in America; and who to the piety which becomes a prelate adds the learning of a scholar, and the courtesy of a gentleman. With affectionate veneration, I am, sir, your grateful friend and servant, THE AUTHOR. |