teria,'' p. 71.
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1742), reprinted in Richard L. Bushman, ed., The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740–1745 (New York: Atheneum, 1970), 117–19. The letter was dated August 4, 1742.
7. Samuel Buell to Eleazar Wheelock, April 20, 1742, reprinted in Bushman, Great Awakening, 44.
8. Charles Chauncy, The Outpouring of the Holy Ghost, preached May 13, 1742 (Boston, 1742), 43–44, quoted in Gri≈n, Old Brick, 65. 9. ''An Act for Regulating Abuses and Correcting Disorders in Ecclesiastical A√airs,'' reprinted in Bushman, Great Awakening, 58–60.
10. ''Extract of a Letter from Hartford, June 15th, 1742,'' Boston Weekly News-Letter, July 1, 1742, reprinted in Bushman, Great Awakening, 45–49. Quotation is from the Assembly's proceedings.
11. ''Declaration with Regard to the Rev. Mr. James Davenport and his Conduct,'' by the associated pastors of Boston and Charlestown, July 1, 1742, reprinted in Joseph Tracy, The Great Awakening, repr. of 1841 ed. (New York: Arno Press, 1969), 242–43.
12. Charles Chauncy, Enthusiasm Described and Cautioned Against: A Sermon Preached . . . the Lord's Day after the Commencement . . . (Boston, 1742). Available in Alan Heimert and Perry Miller, eds., The Great Awakening: Documents Illustrating the Crisis and Its Consequences (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967), 228–56, quotation from p. 231. Quotations regarding Davenport are from ''A Letter to the Reverend Mr. James Davenport'' (prefaced to the original), xi.
13. This follows Tracy's well-documented account, Great Awakening, 243–48. Tracy's quotation from Prince (p. 244) is from Christian History, vol. 2, around p. 408. The quotations attributed to Davenport are from Grand Jury testimony, August 19–20, 1742.
14. Gri≈n, Old Brick, 29–31, 71–89, 127–38. Gri≈n suggests the phrase ''mass hysteria,'' p. 71.
15. Jonathan Ashley, The Great Gift of Charity Considered and Applied . . . (Boston 1742), passim. For context, see Gregory Nobles, Divisions throughout the Whole: Politics and Society in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1740–1775 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 50–52.
16. Jonathan Ashley, A Letter from the Reverend Mr. Jonathan Ashley, to the Reverend Mr. William Cooper, . . . (Boston, 1743), 3. Cooper, letter in Boston Gazette, January 11, 1743. Other comments are in Boston Gazette, February 1, 1743; Boston Evening-Post, January 17, 24, and February 7, 1743; and J. F., Remarks on the Rev. Mr. Cooper's Objections to the Rev. Mr. Ashley's Sermon (Boston, 1743). For biographical information on Cooper, who died December 1743, see Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 5: 624–34.
17. Boston Weekly Post-Boy, March 28, 1743, reprinted in Bushman, Great Awakening, 51–53, provides a very biased and no doubt exaggerated account. It seems confirmed, however, by Davenport's later retraction to the extent that Davenport at least later believed he had been possessed of an evil spirit and that he was physically ill. Cf. the accounts in Tracy, Great Awakening, 248–49, C. C. Goen, Revivalism and Separatism in New England, 1740–1800 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962), 68–70, and Peter S. Onuf, ''New Lights in New London: A Group Portrait of the Separatists,'' William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 37, no. 4 (October 1980): 627–43, for context.
18. Edwards to Sarah Edwards, March 25, 1743, Works, 16: 104–5.