November 4, 1757, Beinecke, Works of Edwards transcription.
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and determined to have a wife, he wrote: ''Miss Lucy Edwards is a charming girl, but guess she would not be happy here scarcely with any man much less me.'' Hawley's Journal, March 1, 1759, quoted ibid., 400. Three months later he married another.
29. Ibid., 399–400. On Stockbridge, see Gideon Hawley, ''A Letter from Rev. Gideon Hawley of Mashpee, Containing an Account of His Services among the Indians . . . ,'' Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st ser., 4 (Boston, 1794), 55, and below.
30. Edwards et al., Petition to Lieutenant Governor Spencer Phips, et al., Works, 16: 693–94, and ''Editor's Introduction,'' p. 693. 31. Thomas Je√erson Wertenbaker, Princeton, 1746–1896 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946), 38–40. Wertenbaker omits any reference to the revival which inaugurated the school's stay at Princeton.
32. Aaron Burr to Edwards, February 20, 1757, and Esther Edwards Burr to Edwards, February 21, 1757, as excerpted in Edwards to John Erskine, April 12, 1757, Works, 16: 703–4.
33. Ibid., 702–5. 34. Edwards to Thomas Foxcroft, February 11, 1757, Works, 16: 697. 35. Esther Burr to Sally Prince, March 1 to May 1, 1757, in Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 250–58.
36. Anderson, Crucible of War, 191–99. Esther Burr to Sally Prince, August 12, 1757, in Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 271. Edwards to Joseph Bellamy, August 6, 1757, Works, 16: 734–35. The bombardment at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, was heard as far as some two hundred miles away at Pittsburgh. James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 661.
37. Burr, Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 273–74. Esther Burr to William Hogg, December 22, 1757, p. 299. Cf. ''Introduction,'' 17, which says the fever was malaria.
38. Esther Burr to Sarah Edwards, October 7, 1757, and to Jonathan Edwards, November 2, 1757, in Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 292–95. Edwards to Esther Burr, November 20, 1757, Works, 16: 730.
39. Richard Stockton to Jonathan Edwards, September 19, 1757, Beinecke, Works of Edwards transcription. Stockton was engaged to Annis Boudinot, a close friend of Esther.
40. Edwards to the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, October 19, 1757, Works, 16: 726. His own words are ''I have a constitution in many respects peculiar unhappy, attended with flaccid solids, vapid, sizy and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirits; often occasioning a kind of childish weakness.''
41. Ibid., 725–30. 42. Edwards to Esther Burr, November 20, 1757, in Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 298. Most of the trustees' concessions are found in Richard Stockton to Jonathan Edwards, November 4, 1757, Beinecke, Works of Edwards transcription.
43. Hopkins, Life, 78. 44. Edwards to Gideon Hawley, January 14, 1758, Works, 16: 737–38. Brainerd did not accept.
45. Hopkins, Life, 78. Edwards to Gideon Hawley, January 14, 1758, Works, 16: 737–38.
chapter 26. Against an ''Almost Inconceivably Pernicious'' Doctrine
1. Edwards to Trustees of the College of New Jersey, October 19, 1757, Works, 16: 729. 2. Freedom of the Will, Works, 1: 437.