Title
[Document, 1785 October 29]
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Name
Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813 (Author)
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
October 29, 1785
Language
English
Physical Description
3 pages
Subjects
United States--History--1783-1865; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Mere election of a bishop by the Episcopal clergy will not create him a bishop according to the Apostolic constitution of the Church of England. Laying on of hands is required, and it is for this reason that he was anxious that the American bishop be installed by English bishops. A discussion of the reasons why the "non-juring" bishops of Scotland cannot have installed Samuel Seabury as American bishop. Thanks him for description of abridged Book of Common Prayer, which he agrees is too abridged.
Identifier
columbia.jay.07431