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See also:MAYHEW, See also:JONATHAN (172o-1766) , See also:American clergyman, was See also:born at Martha's Vineyard on the 8th of See also:October 1720, being fifth in descent from See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Mayhew (1592-1682), an See also:early settler and the grantee (1641) of Martha's Vineyard. Thomas Mayhew (c. 1616-1657), the younger, his son See also:John (d. 1689) and John's son, Experience (1673-1758), were active missionaries among the See also:Indians of Martha's Vineyard and the vicinity. Jonathan, the son of Experience, graduated at Harvard in 1744. So liberal were his theological views that when he was to be ordained See also:minister of the See also:West See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church in See also:Boston in 1747 only two ministers attended the first See also:council called for the ordination, and it was necessary to summon a second council. Mayhew's See also:preaching made his church practically the first " Unitarian " Congregational church in New See also:England, though it was never officially Unitarian. In 1763 he published Observations on the See also:Charter and Conduct of the Society for Propagating the See also:Gospel in See also:Foreign Parts, an attack on the policy of the society in sending missionaries to New England contrary to its See also:original purpose of " Maintaining Ministers of the Gospel " in places " wholly destitute and unprovided with means for the See also:maintenance of ministers and for the public See also:worship of See also:God; " the Observations marked him as a See also:leader among those in New England who feared, as Mayhew said (1762), " that there is a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme forming for sending a See also:bishop into this See also:part of the See also:country, and that our See also:Governor,' a true churchman, is deeply in the See also:plot." To an American reply to the Observations, entitled A Candid Examination (1763), Mayhew wrote a Defense; and after the publication of an See also:Answer, anonymously published in See also:London in 1764 and written by Thomas See also:Secker, See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, he wrote a Second Defense. He bitterly opposed the See also:Stamp See also:Act, and urged the See also:necessity of colonial See also:union (or " communion ") to secure colonial liberties. He died on the gth of See also:July 1766. Mayhew was Dudleian lecturer at Harvard in 1765, and in 1749 had received the degree of D.D. from the University of See also:Aberdeen.
See Alden See also:Bradford, Memoir of the See also:Life and Writings of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew (Boston, 1838), and " An Early See also:Pulpit See also:Champion of Colonial Rights," See also:chapter vi., in vol. i. of M. C. See also:Tyler's See also:Literary See also:History of the American Revolution (2 vols., New See also:York, 1897).
End of Article: MAYHEW, JONATHAN (172o-1766)
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