ABSTRACT
The identification of many Anglicans with the British cause in the Revolution meant that in the new republic the church had to be, in effect, refounded as the Protestant Episcopal Church. Prominent in this, as he had been earlier as educator, churchman and Loyalist propagandist, was William Smith (1727 -1803). He pursued the line of stressing the value of old Anglican practices and traditions but urging Episcopalians to play their part in guaranteeing America's future glory.
