These MSS. are found in Perry and Hawks's Documentary History, and
include a valuable article on the Episcopate before the Revolution,
by F. L. Hawks, also "Thoughts upon the present state of the Church
of England in the Colonies," [1764] by an unknown contemporary.
Cross, Arthur Lyon. The History of the Anglican Episcopate and the
American Colonies. New York and London, 1902.
Hawkins, E. Historical Notices of the Missions of the Church of
England in the North American Colonies. London, 1845.
Chiefly drawn from MS. documents of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
Hawks (Frances Lister) and Perry (William Stevens). Documentary
History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States. Containing … documents concerning the Church in
Connecticut. New York, 1863-34. 2vols.
See Perry, William Stevens.
McConnell, Samuel Davis. History of the American Episcopal Church. New
York, 1890.
A brief general history with a number of pages devoted to the
attempts to establish the Episcopate in America and to the political
hostility that it roused.
Perry, William Stevens (Bishop of Iowa). [See F. L. Hawks.] Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church. New York, 1863-64. 2 vols.
Unbiased; arranged under topical heads; has illustrated monographs by different authors; illustrations, including facsimiles; and also critical notes, frequently referring to original sources. It contains many letters from the missions established by the London Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.