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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - 1 2 Heaton, Hannah; Lacey, Barbara E (2003). The world of Hannah Heaton: the diary of an eighteenth-century New England farm woman. DeKalb, Ill: Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0875803128. OCLC 834186704.
- ↑ Yeager, Jonathan M. (2013-09-19). Early Evangelicalism: A Reader. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199916955.
- ↑ Rhoden, Nancy L. (2016-10-01). "John Howard Smith.The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775". The American Historical Review. 121 (4): 1267–1268. doi:10.1093/ahr/121.4.1267. ISSN 0002-8762.
- ↑ Lacey, Barbara E. (1988). "The World of Hannah Heaton: The Autobiography of an Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Farm Woman". The William and Mary Quarterly. 45 (2): 280–304. doi:10.2307/1922328. JSTOR 1922328.
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{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ↑ Brekus, Catherine A.; Gilpin, W. Clark (2011-12-01). American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807869147.
- ↑ Fischer, Claude S. (2010-05-15). Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226251455.
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