This title offers unique analysis of the controversies between Dissenters and Anglicans in America and England which led to the American Revolution. It includes: new research from English and American sources; new theory and interpretation of the controversies between Dissenters and Anglicans that were among the causes of the American Revolution; and new details of the roles of John Adams, Samuel Adams and John Wilkes.It examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the quartering of troops: topics which John Adams later recalled as causes of the American Revolution.