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182CHASE, PHILANDERprevailed during the presidency of Timothy Cutler,* and following his graduation,he studied theology under the Anglican clergyman Samuel Johnson.* Althoughtoo young for ordination, he was appointed a lay reader and catechist at St. John’sChurch, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1747. After being ordained to the priesthoodin 1751, he became rector of St. John’s—a parish with which he remainedaffiliated for the rest of his life. Chandler caused some consternation among hisparishioners in 1763 when he refused to allow the evangelist George Whitefield*to speak in the church. This opposition was rooted in his social and ecclesiasticalconservatism: he feared that Whitefield’s preaching would disrupt parish life.Chandler was a forceful advocate of bishops for the American church, continuallyemphasizing to his SPG superiors in London that an American episcopatewould help bind the colonies to the mother country. Speaking for Anglican clergyin New York and New Jersey, he published the first of a series of controversialpamphlets on the subject of a colonial episcopate in 1767. He later engaged in avigorous pamphlet debate with the Congregational clergyman Charles Chauncy,a militant opponent of bishops. From 1766 to 1775 Chandler also advocated theTory cause, defending the laws and government of England and arguing againstthe foolishness of republicanism.In May 1775 Chandler fled to New York and thence to England, where heremained for 10 years, separated from his wife and six children, who continuedto live in Elizabethtown. While he was absent, St. John’s Church suffered greatlyas a result of the American Revolution. The congregation dispersed, the pews andfloors were removed and burned, the building became a stable, and the organpipes were ripped out and melted down for ammunition. Upon Chandler‘s returnto America in 1785, his failing health prevented him from carrying out all butthe lightest of parochial duties. Although he was the first American chosen forthe new Anglican bishopric of Nova Scotia, he was not able to accept the appointment.Suffering from cancer of the face, he eventually died in Elizabethtownin 1790. Chandler’s high church principles remained influential long after hisdeath, however, as his son-in-law, John Henry Hobart,* the bishop of New York,advanced many of his ideas in the early nineteenth century.BibliographyA. An Appeal to the Public in Behalf of the Church of England in America (New York,1767); The Appeal Defended; or, the Proposed American Episcopate Vindicated(New York, 1769); The Appeal Further Defended: In Answer to the Farther Misrepresentationof Dr. Chauncy (New York, 1771); The Life of Samuel Johnson (NewYork, 1805).B. AAP 5, 137–42; DAB 3, 616; DARB, 106–7; EDC, 82; HPEC, 105–16; Samuel ClydeMcCulloch, “Thomas Bradbury Chandler: Anglican Humanitarian in Colonial NewJersey,” in British Humanitarianism: Essays Honoring Frank J. Klingberg (Philadelphia,1950), 100–23.CHASE, PHILANDER (14 December 1775, Cornish, N.H.–20 September 1852,Jubilee, Ill.). Education: B.A., Dartmouth College, 1795. Career: Schoolteacher