BOUCHER, bmecher, JONAT1TAN 1738-1SO4 ) . A British-American clergyman, prominent as a Loyalist at the time of the Revolutionary War. He was born in Blencogo, England; emigrated to America in 1759; conducted a boarding-sehool in Virginia; was ordained a priest in 1762, and was a rector in Virginia and 'Maryland until 1775. He was then driven from his pulpit on account of his opposition to the principles of the Revolution, and returned to England, where from 1776 until his death he was Vicar of Epsom. lie wrote many essays and papers on political and theological subjects, hut is chiefly remembered for his View of t he Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (1797)—a collection of fifteen Ili,:emirses deliv ered in Virginia and Maryland between the years 1763 and 1775. Of this book Professor Tyler has said: "Nowhere else, probably, can be found so comprehensive, so able, and so au thentie a presentation of the deeper principles and motives of the American Loyalists, par ticularly from the standpoint. of it High-Church
clergyman of great purity and steadfastness of character, of great moral courage. of great learning, finally of great love for the country thus torn and distracted by fratricidal dis The book was dedicated to Wash ington. between whom and Boucher there exist ed for many years an intimate friendship. A Glossary of Archaic and. Provincial Words, an unfinished work, was published in London, in two parts, in 18:32-33. Extracts from Bou cher's Autobiography were published in :Votes and Qa,ricg. 5th series, Vol. VI. (1850), and the "Letters of ;Jonathan Boucher to George in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. LII. (Boston, 1898). Consult Tyler, Literary History of the American Rerolution (New York, 1897).