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Thomas A. Schafer, described in Stephen J. Stein, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 5: 74–77. All dating is based on Schafer's monumental e√orts.
2. From cover of ''Notes on Natural Philosophy,'' Works, 10: 181. See also 181n concerning the date.
3. Ibid., 185. 4. Communication from Kenneth Minkema, April 23, 1997. 5. Norman Fiering, Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981), 16–17.
6. Perry Miller, Jonathan Edwards (New York: William Sloane, 1949), 52–53, 74, 72, 77–78. Norman Fiering says that ''Miller's discussion of Locke and Edwards on 52–68 is probably the worst piece of writing he ever did, judged in terms of substance and interpretive accuracy.'' Fiering, Edwards's Moral Thought, 36n. Nonetheless, Miller's enthusiasm mixed with some brilliant insights was of immense value in promoting appreciation and study of Edwards.
7. Thanks to the prodigious research of Norman Fiering, Edwards's Moral Thought and Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981). Also, William S. Morris, The Young Jonathan Edwards: A Reconstruction (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson, 1991).
8. Fiering, Edwards's Moral Thought, 17–23, 109. On the general intellectual climate in New England see also John Corrigan, The Prism of Piety: Catholick Congregational Clergy at the Beginning of the Enlightenment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
9. Edwards' obituary, New York Mercury, April 10, 1758, p. 1. The author may have been William Smith, a New York lawyer and trustee of the College of New Jersey who was the older brother of John Smith, Jonathan's New York friend. William graduated from Yale in 1719 and was a tutor there from 1722 to 1724. Although his time at Yale did not overlap much with the years Edwards was there, they would have been well acquainted. See ''William Smith,'' in Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, October 1701–May 1745 (New York: Henry Holt, 1885), 207–13.
10. Hopkins, Life, 5–6. 11. Anderson, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 6: 15–27, does the remarkable detective work on this issue, concluding that Hopkins' story is unlikely. I am convinced, however, by the counterargument of George Claghorn, personal correspondence, September 2001, that Hopkins' account is still plausible, especially since Anderson's is only negative evidence. It is also possible, of course, that Edwards had been referring to his second year at Yale College in New Haven, and Hopkins interpreted it as his second year in college (when Edwards would have been only fourteen, by the way).
12. We have some correspondence between Elisha Williams, begun when he was just graduated from Harvard in 1711 at age seventeen, and his cousin Stephen (the redeemed captive) still at Harvard, in which they are dealing with heady and relatively current philosophical issues. See Fiering, Edwards's Moral Thought, 25–27.
13. Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939), 111–53.
14. Our knowledge of the updating of the curriculum in 1718–19 is based on the later recollections of Samuel Johnson, the tutor whom the Wethersfield boys had been unhappy with and who was dismissed in spring 1719 to make way for Cutler. Johnson claimed credit