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Excerpt from John Witherspoon
Witherspoon's life is notable in connection with four important movements: the struggle for popular rights in the Church of Scotland; the administration of Princeton College; the organization of the American Presbyterian Church; and the American Revolution. I have tried to tell the story of his life simply and accurately. As I have avoided the use of footnotes I shall indicate here the sources of my information. For the Scotch period these were Cunningham's "History of Scotland," "Autobiography of Rev. Alexander Carlyle" and the Minutes of the General Assembly; for the American period, Bancroft's "History of the United States," "Sprague's Annals," Sanderson's "Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence," Tyler's "Literary History of the American Revolution" McLean's "History of the College of New Jersey," John Adams' Diary, the Writings of Washington. But in all cases I have also used the original documents.
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