Eric C. Smith is the Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tennessee, and a historian of American Baptists and early American religion. He is also the author of Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America (OUP, 2020) and Order & Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Regular Baptists of Eighteenth-Century South Carolina (USC Press, 2018). He and his wife, Candace, have three children.

I am thankful for Eric Smith writing this book on Leland and giving modern Baptists a resource that will serve us well.

• Introduction: "The Cheesemonger" 1. "High-Flying, Separate New Light:" The Forging of an Individualist2. "Young and Roving:" Itinerating in Virginia 3. "Religion is a Matter between God and Individuals:" The Rights of Conscience4. "A Bow Too Great for My Stiff Neck:" Resisting the Baptist Church5. "I Dare Not Pull Up Stakes:" The Persistence of Populist Calvinism6. "A Very Prince Among Democrats:" Baptist Preacher, Party Whip 7. "Consistent with the Principles of Good Policy:" A Long Journey with Slavery8. "In the Tub of Diogenes:" Evangelical Contrarian9. "Awakened in a New World:" A Baptist Rip Van Winkle Bibliography

Eric C. Smith is the Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tennessee, and a historian of American Baptists and early American religion. He is also the author of Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America (OUP, 2020) and Order & Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Regular Baptists of Eighteenth-Century South Carolina (USC Press, 2018). He and his wife, Candace, have three children.

I am thankful for Eric Smith writing this book on Leland and giving modern Baptists a resource that will serve us well.

• Introduction: "The Cheesemonger" 1. "High-Flying, Separate New Light:" The Forging of an Individualist2. "Young and Roving:" Itinerating in Virginia 3. "Religion is a Matter between God and Individuals:" The Rights of Conscience4. "A Bow Too Great for My Stiff Neck:" Resisting the Baptist Church5. "I Dare Not Pull Up Stakes:" The Persistence of Populist Calvinism6. "A Very Prince Among Democrats:" Baptist Preacher, Party Whip 7. "Consistent with the Principles of Good Policy:" A Long Journey with Slavery8. "In the Tub of Diogenes:" Evangelical Contrarian9. "Awakened in a New World:" A Baptist Rip Van Winkle Bibliography

Eric C. Smith is the Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tennessee, and a historian of American Baptists and early American religion. He is also the author of Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America (OUP, 2020) and Order & Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Regular Baptists of Eighteenth-Century South Carolina (USC Press, 2018). He and his wife, Candace, have three children.

I am thankful for Eric Smith writing this book on Leland and giving modern Baptists a resource that will serve us well.

• Introduction: "The Cheesemonger" 1. "High-Flying, Separate New Light:" The Forging of an Individualist2. "Young and Roving:" Itinerating in Virginia 3. "Religion is a Matter between God and Individuals:" The Rights of Conscience4. "A Bow Too Great for My Stiff Neck:" Resisting the Baptist Church5. "I Dare Not Pull Up Stakes:" The Persistence of Populist Calvinism6. "A Very Prince Among Democrats:" Baptist Preacher, Party Whip 7. "Consistent with the Principles of Good Policy:" A Long Journey with Slavery8. "In the Tub of Diogenes:" Evangelical Contrarian9. "Awakened in a New World:" A Baptist Rip Van Winkle Bibliography