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A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Works of God
Ann Lee in New England
Anne Hutchinson banished
Baptist persecution
Bonfire of Vanities
Congregational condemnation of revivalism
George Whitefield began preaching in North America
Gilbert Tennent began preaching
Great Awakening
Guide to Christ
Half-Way Covenant
James Davenport deported from Connecticut
Jonathan Edwards became pastor at Northampton
Jonathan Edwards dismissed
Log College established
Princeton founded
Salem witchcraft trials
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Solomon Stoddard’s first “harvest”
St. Thomas’s African Episcopal Church founded
The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
Theodorus Frelinghuysen began preaching
Witchcraft executions in Salem

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Absalom Jones
Ann Lee
Anne Hutchinson
Anthony Benezet
Benjamin Franklin
Cotton Mather
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Gilbert Tennent
Increase Mather
James Blair
James Davenport
James Ireland
John Waller
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Theodorus Frelinghuysen
William Tennent Sr.

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