The reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine loyalist : for God, king, country, and for self / James S. Leamon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leamon, James S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bailey, Jacob, 1731-1808.

Bailey, Jacob.

Missionaries--Maine--Biography.

Missionaries.

Anglican Communion--Nova Scotia--Clergy--Biography.

Anglican Communion.

United Empire loyalists--Biography.

United Empire loyalists.

Clergy.

Nova Scotia.

Maine.

Annapolis Royal (N.S.)--Biography.

Annapolis Royal (N.S.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 251 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]

Summary:

The Reverend Jacob Bailey was a missionary Preacher in Pownal borough (now Dresden), Maine, who refused to renounce allegiance to King George III during the American War of Independence. Relying largely on Bailey's unpublished journals and voluminous correspondence, James S. Leamon shows how Bailey absorbed many of the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment but also the more traditional conviction that family, society, religion, and politics, like creation itself, should be orderly and hierarchal. Such beliefs led Bailey to oppose the Revolution as unnatural, immoral, and doomed to fail.

Reverend Bailey's persistence in praying for the king and his refusal to publicize the Declaration or Independence from his pulpit aroused hostilities that drove him and his family lo the safety of Nova Scotia. During his time in exile, he wrote almost obsessively: poems, dramas, novels, histories. Though few were ever completed, and even fewer published, in one way or another most of lm writings depicted the trauma he underwent as a loyalist.

Leamon's study of the Reverend Jacob Bailey depicts the complex nature and burdens of one person's loyalism while revealing much about eighteenth-century American life and culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

The education of Jacob Bailey

From teacher to preacher

Frontier missionary

The politics of religion

The religion of politics

The price of an oath

Reconciled to exile

On reading Jacob Bailey, loyalist.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781558499416

1558499415

9781558499423

1558499423

OCLC:

768167118