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Explanatory Note

The memorial tribute to James F. Maclear, which appears on the following page, was published in winter 2001 issue of University of Minnesota Duluth BRIDGE. When the article was published, I was hopeful that Maclear's book-length manuscript would be finished by a scholar who possessed the requisite knowledge of American and British religious history. It is now clear that the research needed to write the five missing chapters and the challenge of dealing with missing and fragmentary footnotes is too formidable. I have decided to make Maclear's incomplete but valuable history of "British Dissent and the American Churches, 1783-1865" available. Following the BRIDGE article is a brief description of how the manuscript was assembled, the Table of Contents, and Maclear's manuscript.

Neil Storch
February 8, 2003