to anglicanism, the girl's name is lydia. he was born in a solid home in lynchfield, and he might have stayed there and may have never gone to vermont except for something called the great awakening which i think was the seed time of the american revolution. it was the first time large numbers of people turned out for mass meetings to hear someone speak. until then, mostly they got enough speaking in three hour sermons and meeting houses. in the 1730s and 40s, missionary ies came from england, anglicans from the holy club originally from oxford university and every year they preached down the length of the british colonies from new ported rhode island to salve van that, and the crowds were enormous for the times.