mental freedom first her power display'd and call'd a MAYHEW to religion's aid. For this great truth, he boldly led the van, That private judgment was the right of man. References Bibliography Chris Beneke, "The Critical Turn: Jonathan Mayhew, the British Empire, and the Idea of Resistance in Mid-Eightennth-Century Boston." Massachusetts Historical Review, Vol. 10 (2008): pp. 23–56. Howard L. Lubert, "Jonathan Mayhew: Conservative Revolutionary." History of Political Thought 32 (Winter 2011): 589-616. Patrick Mullins. Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution (2017) External links A brief bio "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers" "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers" (complete text) Boston University. Mayhew Papers (1648–1774) Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers From the American Imprint Collection at the Library of Congress 1720 births 1766 deaths People from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Harvard College alumni American Congregationalist ministers 18th-century Christian clergy American Unitarians 18th century in Boston People of colonial Massachusetts 18th-century American clergy