8o 



AMERICAN MEN OF LETTERS 



[80 



but they were nevertheless of importance in the field of 

 letters. Presumably most of them were housewives, as 

 ninety-five out of the one hundred and forty-one were mar- 

 ried/ and a number of others are known to have been house- 

 keepers for parents and other relatives. 



TABLE XXIV 



Early Religious Training of American Literati, Classified by 



Region of Birth* 



Early Religious 

 training 



73 



a 



"So 



a 



107 

 14 

 15 

 39 

 16 



7 

 13 



Congregational. - 



Presbyterian , . 



Protestant Episcopal 



Unitarian 



Protestant, denomination unknown i 



Methodist Episcopal i i 



Baptist ' I 



Friends !••••! 4 



Roman Catholic 



Universalist 



Dutch Reformed 



Lutheran 



Jewish 



Disciples 



Moravian 



Seventh- Day Baptist 



Swedenborgian 



1^ 



^1 



Total 



8 

 35 

 25 



8 



15 

 12 

 II 

 12^ 



6 



I 



5 



ti 

 CO c 



(S 





.1.. 



119 



73' 

 53 

 49 

 40 



36 

 30 

 20 

 16 



I 



4 

 2 

 2 



I 



460 



* Cf. Appendix C. 



^ An individual was credited to a denomination when there was in 

 the sources a definite statement that he had been brought up in the 

 faith of that denomination. Frequently it was obvious that a person 

 had been trained as a Protestant, but the denomination could not be 

 ascertained. In such cases he is recorded as Protestant, denomination 

 not specified. It is unfortunate that information was unobtainable in 

 more than half the cases studied. 



' Includes one author whose place of birth is unknown. 



* Includes one Hicksite Friend. 



