the learning and the academic discipline of the boys disappointing.
∑∫∫ Notes to Pages 419–26
15. Burr, Discourse Delivered at New-Ark, 39. 16. Ola Winslow, Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1940), 287. George Claghorn in his ''Character Summary: Gideon Hawley,'' furnished to the author, dates this as July 1754, Gideon Hawley, Journal, Congregational Library, Boston.
17. Burr, Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, March 10 to April 12, 1755, pp. 98–108. 18. Ibid., October 13, 1754, pp. 54–55. 19. Burr, Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, April 12, 1757, p. 257, cf. p. 248. 20. Edwards had been involved at a distance in the New York Presbyterians' struggles. His close friend Joseph Bellamy had received a much-disputed call to pastor the divided congregation in 1754 but finally turned it down. Bellamy, a large forceful man from the backcountry, would have been a bull in a china shop in this delicate situation. Further, New Yorkers put on English airs. ''I am not polite enough for them,'' Bellamy told a friend. ''I may possibly do to be a minister out in the woods but am not fit for the city.'' Quoted in Joseph A. Conforti, Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1981), 10, from Glen P. Anderson, ''Joseph Bellamy: The Man and His Work'' (Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1971), 466.
In July 1755 the congregation had called David Bostwick of Long Island and had designated Edwards as their next choice, should Bostwick turn them down. Esther believed her father, ''will by no means do for 'em if he would come.'' and hoped he would not consider it ( Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 132). When Edwards was in New York in October, Bostwick's coming (which eventually led to a schism) was still being hotly contested, and there is no evidence that Edwards had an interest in moving into another maelstrom.
21. On Edwards' travels, see Burr, Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 156–58. She mentions a visit from ''the oyster man,'' March 21, 1755, p. 102. We have record of a number of occasions when Edwards ordered chocolate. For instance, in a letter to Timothy Woodbridge, June 4, 1755, Works, 16: 669, he ordered it from John Henry Lydius, the New York trader with whom Woodbridge had devised the Susquehanna purchase the previous year. ''Was Edwards a Chocoholic?'' Friends of Edwards, ''News from The Works of Jonathan Edwards at Yale University'' (autumn 1999): 3, lists seven evidences of chocolate purchases.
22. ''Gideon Hawley,'' Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 12: 396–97. Edwards to McCulloch, April 10, 1756, Works, 16: 684–87. On Johnson, see Milton W. Hamilton, Sir William Johnson: Colonial American, 1715–1763 (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1976).
23. Joseph Bellamy to Jonathan Edwards, in Dwight, Life, 555–56. Bellamy also found the learning and the academic discipline of the boys disappointing.
24. The references describing this visit here and below are from Esther Burr to Sally Prince, August 16 to September 19, 1756, in Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 217–24.
25. Anderson, Crucible of War, 154–55. As a result, the colonials called o√ their Crown Point expedition and moved into a defensive position, p. 157.
26. Edwards to Gideon Hawley, October 9, 1756, Works, 16: 690–91. 27. For the point of view of the Iroquois, see Daniel K. Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The People of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), and ''War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience,'' William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 40 (1983): 528–59.
28. Gideon Hawley, Journal, Congregational Library, Boston, February 12, 17, 1757, as quoted in Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 12: 399, cf. 398–400. Later, when Hawley was settled