Well, the ARDA posted an absolutely fascinating dataset called Clergymen in Revolutionary America (1763-1783). It’s exactly what you think it is - a big spreadsheet of clergy in the Colonies. That’s awesome. The data comes as a result of the efforts by Lewis Frederick Weis in the 1930s to collect this information. It resulted in the publication of two books The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England and The Colonial Churches and the Colonial Clergy of the Middle and Southern Colonies.
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