TY - SER
KW - Christian Universalism
KW - religious schisms
KW - teenagers
KW - families
AU - Jane Lippitt Patterson
AB - Wesley Sanford is a rebellious teen who first rejects religion, and then becomes enamored of Christian Universalism, causing a minor scandal in Methodist Otsego, New York. The Sunday school teacher, Horace Ryder, declares Wesley an “infidel,” complicating Wesley’s courtship of Horace’s daughter, Mercy. The Sanfords resettle in the Allegheny River Valley’s Vinetown.
C1 - 1790s-1850s
C3 - Venango County; Allegheny River; Oil City
C4 - Christian; Roman à clef
CY - Boston
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Oil City is disguised as Vinetown.

First appeared as a serial in the <em>Universalist Repository</em>. 
N2 - Wesley Sanford is a rebellious teen who first rejects religion, and then becomes enamored of Christian Universalism, causing a minor scandal in Methodist Otsego, New York. The Sunday school teacher, Horace Ryder, declares Wesley an “infidel,” complicating Wesley’s courtship of Horace’s daughter, Mercy. The Sanfords resettle in the Allegheny River Valley’s Vinetown.
PB - Universalist Publishing House
PP - Boston
PY - 1883
RN - Jane Lippitt Patterson (1829-1919) born in Otsego, New York and educated at Tufts, was an author and editor. She became interested in Christian Universalism at age 13, and often walked three miles to Sunday services. She married a Universalist minister, who preached on a circuit in Crawford in Erie Counties in the 1850s.
EP - 352 p.
TI - Out of Sight
ER -