ABSTRACT
Though not universally the case, the clearest group religious support for the British in the Revolution came from Anglican clergymen and laity, particularly in the more northern districts. An eloquent account of living through 1776 as a Anglican Loyalist in New York came from the Rev. Charles Inglis (1734-1816). Predictably an advocate of the establishment of a bishopric in America—which American Whigs of course regarded with deep suspicion—Inglis was based at Trinity Church in New York City from 1765. In 1776 he produced an early reply to Paine's Common Sense and survived the fluctuations of war before departing for England in 1783. He became the first colonial Anglican bishop on being consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia in 1787.
