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Posted by nmc on December 17, 19103 at 21:29:13:
In Reply to: Re: the MYTH of Deism posted by Clint on April 16, 19103 at 17:08:10:
: Dear Jeffrey'
: Your comments concerning the religious beliefs of the founders is in error. Thomas Jefferson was not a member of the Constitutional Convention. Note the delegates from each state: New Hampshire: John Langdon, Congregationalist; Nicholas Gilman, Congregationalist. Machusetts: Elbridge Gerry, Episcopalian; Rufus King, Episcopalian; Caleb Strong, Congregationalist; Nathaniel Gorman, Congregationalist. Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Congregationalist; William Samuel Johnson, Episcopalian; Oliver Ellsworth, Congregationalist.
: New York: Alexander Hamilton, Episcopalian; John Lansing, Dutch Reformed (?); Robert Yates, Dutch Reformed; New Jersey: William Paterson, Presbyterian; William Livingston, Presbyterian; Jonathon Dayton, Episcopalian; David Brearly, Episcopalian; William Churchill Houston, Presbyterian; Pennsylvania: Benjamin Franklin, Diest; Robert Morris, Episcopalian; James Wilson, Episcopalian/Deist; Gouverneur Morris, Episcopalian; Thomas Miflin, Quaker/Lutheran; George Clymer, Quaker/Episcopalian; Thomas FitzSimmons, Roman Catholic; Jared Ingersol, Presbyterian. Delaware: John inson, Quaker/Episcopalian; George Read, Episcopalian' Richard Bett, Methodist; Gunning Bedford, Presbyterian; Jacob Broom, Lutheran. Maryland: Luther Martin, Episcopalian; Daniel Carroll, Roman Catholic; John Francis Mercer, Episcopalian;
: James McHenry, Presbyterian; Daniel of St Thomas Jennifer, Episcopalian. ia: George Washington, Episcopalian; James Madison, Episcopalian; George Mason, Episcopalian; Edmund Jennings Randolph, Episcopalian; John Blair, Jr., Episcopalian; James McClurg, Episcopalian; George Wythe, Episcopalian. North Carolina: William Richardson davie, Presbyterian; Hugh Williamson, Presbyterian/Deist(?); William Blount, Presbyterian; Alexander Martin, Presbyterian/Episcopalian; Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr., Episcopalian. South Carolina: John Rutledge, Episcopalian; Charles Cotesworth Pinckney III, Episcopalian. Georgia: Abraham Baldwin, Congregationalist, William Leigh Pierce, Episcopalian; William Houston, Episcopalian; William Few, Methodist. I suggest that you readA Worthy Company by M.E. Bradford
Yeah, what it said!