the conviction of witches on spectral evidence, and Harvard taught a pre-Enlightenment curriculum over 100 years old. While Cutler was away on his ordination trip, Boston's elite had jailed printer James Franklin of the New England Currant for political attacks, and fined his publisher John Checkley for printing Episcopal books. As the leading Anglican in Massachusetts, Cutler defended the rights of his fellow believers, standing against the Church, State, College theocracy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He pushed for the emancipation of his church members from the church tax imposed by the Puritan theocracy. He started a library of Anglican books in his church. With Rev. Samuel Myles of King's Chapel he laid claim to a seat on the Board of Overseers of Harvard, as a minister of the Episcopal Church in Boston, maintaining that he was a "teaching elder" as required by the college charter. Unsurprisingly, both the Overseers and General Court decided against him. Cutler urged a bishop be appointed for the American colonies. He published four sermons, two preached before the Connecticut General Assembly (on May 9, 1717, and October 18, 1719) - a singular honor in the Standing Order of the Puritan Connecticut government - and two while he was Rector of Christ Church, Boston. Theology In 1723 Timothy Cutler and others shocked the community of the Yale College by leaving Congregationalism for Anglicanism. The theological issues in dispute related principally to church governance. Besides, the move into Anglicanism involved an embrace of Arminian teachings on salvation as well. See also Notes and references "Timothy Cutler", in Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Citations Sources Further reading William S. Perry, Historical Collections Relating to the American Colonial Church (1870) and John Nichols, Illustrations of the Lit. History of the Eighteenth Century (1822) contain Cutler letters Henry W. Foote, Annals of King's Chapel (1882–96) is rich in references Nahum S. Cutler, A Cutler Memorial and Geneal. History (1889) Richard Frothingham, History of Charlestown, Mass., no. 5 (1847) Edwin Oviatt, The Beginnings of Yale (1916) Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Conn. (1886) Justin Winsor, Memorial History of Boston, vol. II (1881) E. E. Beardsley, History of the Episc. Church in Connecticut (1866) William S. Perry, History of the American Episc. Church