[4] William S. Pattee, A History of Old Braintree and Quincy, 222. When a copy of Dr. Jedediah Morse's little book on American Unitarianism was sent to John Adams, he acknowledged its receipt in the following letter:-- QUINCY, May 15, 1815. _Dear Doctor_,--I thank you for your favor of the 10th, and the pamphlet enclosed, entitled American Unitarianism. I have turned over its leaves, and found nothing that was not familiarly known to me. In the preface Unitarianism is represented as only thirty years old in New England. I can testify as a witness to its old age. Sixty-five years ago my own minister, the Rev. Lemuel Briant; Dr. Jonathan Mayhew, of the West Church in Boston; the Rev. Mr. Shute, of Hingham; the Rev. John Brown, of Cohasset; and perhaps equal to all, if not above all, the, Rev. Mr. Gay, of Hingham, were Unitarians. Among the laity how many could I name, lawyers, physicians, tradesmen, farmers! But at present I will name only one, Richard Cranch, a man who had studied divinity, and Jewish and Christian antiquities, more than any clergyman now existing in New England. JOHN ADAMS. Also see C.F. Adams, Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, 643; and J.H. Allen, An Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement since the Reformation, 175. [5] History of Hingham, I., Part II., 24, Memoir of Ebenezer Gay, by Solomon Lincoln. [6] Sermons, 1755, 83. [7] Ibid., 103. [8] Ibid., 119. [9] Ibid., 125. [10] Ibid., 245. [11] Sermons, 1755, 50. [12] Ibid., 82. [13] Sermons, 1755, 83. [14] Ibid., 65. [15] Ibid., 62. [16] Ibid., 63. [17] Ibid, 268, 269. [18] Sermons, 1755, 275, 276. [19] A. Bradford, Memoir of the Life and Writings of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D.D., 36. [20] Ibid., 464. [21] Letter from his daughter, quoted by Bartol, The West Church and its Ministers, 129. [22] Sermons, 293 [23] C.A. Bartol, The West Church and its Ministers. [24] Reply to Dr. Chandler, quoted in Sprague's Annals of the Unitarian Pulpit, 9. [25] Remarks upon a Sermon of the Bishop of Landaff, quoted by Sprague. [26] Chauncy's many published sermons and volumes are carefully enumerated by Paul Leicester Ford in his Bibliotheca Chaunciana, a List of the Writings of Charles Chauncy. He gives the titles of sixty-one books and pamphlets published by Chauncy, and of eighty-eight about him or in reply to him. [27] Sprague's Annals, 49; W.J. Potter, History of the First Congregational Society, New Bedford. [28] Sprague's Annals. 42. [29] George Batchelor, Social Equilibrium, 263, 264. [30] Ibid., 265. [31] Sprague's Annals, 131. [32] Father of the essayist of the same name.