14. Burr, Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, September 26 to October 11, 1755, pp. 153–58.
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chapter 25. Wartime
1. Esther Edwards Burr to Sally Prince, July 19, 1755, in The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754–1757, ed. Carol F. Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 136.
2. Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (New York: Knopf, 2000), 86–114, provides the most helpful account.
3. Esther Edwards Burr to Sally Prince, November 5, 1755, in Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 163–64 and August 8–9, p. 142. Burr wrote almost daily to Prince in what is virtually a diary and is now an invaluable source.
4. Aaron Burr, A Discourse Delivered at New-Ark, in New Jersey, January 1, 1755. Being a Day Set Apart for Solemn Fasting and Prayer, on Account of the Late Encroachments of the French . . . (Philadelphia and New York, 1755), 40 and passim. Burr closes with a peroration that anticipates American revolutionary rhetoric and illustrates the connection of liberty with Protestantism. '' 'Tis high time, to awake . . . every spark of English valour; cheerfully to o√er our purses, our arms, and our lives, to the defense of our country, our holy religion, our excellent constitution and invaluable liberties. For what is life, without liberty? Without the enjoyment of the glorious Gospel of Christ.''
I am indebted to Nathan O. Hatch, The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 34, for pointing out Burr's di√erences with Edwards, published in Aaron Burr, The Watchman's Answer . . . (Boston, 1757). Esther Edwards Burr to Sally Prince, January 1 and 2, 1755, in Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 76–77. 5. ''An Account of Events Probably Fulfilling the Sixth Vial,'' in ''Notes on the Apocalypse,'' Works, 5: 283. In another section of ''Notes on the Apocalypse,'' titled ''Events of an Hopeful Aspect on the State of Religion,'' Edwards last entry was March 25, 1755, Works, 5: 296–97.
6. Sermon on Psalm 60: 9–12, ''Fast after General Braddock's Defeat,'' August 28, 1755. This is a repreaching of a sermon from August 1746, but the application concerning Braddock is new. Works of Edwards transcription.
7. Edwards to William McCulloch, April 10, 1756, Works, 16: 686. 8. Edwards et al., Petition to Colonel Israel Williams, September 4, 1755, Works, 16: 670. Cf. Edwards to Colonel Israel Williams, September 5, 1755, Works, 16: 671–72. 9. Anderson, Crucible of War, 118–20; Wyllis Wright, Colonel Ephraim Williams: A Documentary Life (Pittsfield, Mass.: Berkshire County Historical Society, 1970), 127–49.
10. Edwards to John Erskine, December 11, 1755, Works, 16: 680. James R. Trumbull, History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1654, 2 vols. (Northampton, Mass., 1898, 1902), 2: 285.
11. Abigail Dwight to Abram Bookee, November 1755, as quoted in Sarah Cabot Sedgwick and Christina Sedgwick Marquand, Stockbridge, 1739–1974 (Stockbridge, Mass.: Berkshire Traveller Press, 1974), 81–82. Cf. Edwards to Aaron Burr, March 16, 1756, Works, 16: 683, and Claghorn's note p. 669. 12. Wright, Colonel Ephraim Williams, 110–11, 153–61. 13. Edwards to John Erskine, December 11, 1755, Works, 16: 679–81. 14. Burr, Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, September 26 to October 11, 1755, pp. 153–58.