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This record book is a printed pamphlet (with Coit's notes) of charges brought against Benjamin Bosworth Smith (1794-1884) in Lexington, Ky., 1837. Smith was recort of Christ Church in Lexington, 1830-1838, and had been appointed first Bishop of Kentucky in 1832. He was also one of the founders of the Theological Seminary, and later became Senior and Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, U.S.
Long celebrated as a symbol of the country's origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims' storied landing on the Rock never actually took place--the tradition having emerged more than a century after the arrival of the Mayflower. In Memory's Nation, however, John Seelye is not interested in the factual truth of the landing. He argues that what truly gives Plymouth Rock its significance is more than two centuries of oratorical, literary, and artistic celebrations of the Pilgrims' arrival. Seelye traces how different political, religious, and social groups used the image of the Rock on behalf of their own specific...
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