The New Jerusalem Church is Adams’s Swedenborgians, the tradition that maps directly onto the Swedenborg portrait in the archive.
In Hannah Adams
In Adams’s own words, from the 1817 Dictionary. Each passage is quoted verbatim under its own entry.
New Jerusalem Church, a society founded by Emanuel Swedenborg, son of Jasper, a Lutheran bishop of West-Gothia. He was born at Stockholm in the year 1689, and died in London in 1772.
He asserted that his spiritual sight was opened, so that he could converse with spirits and angels in the spiritual world, and that the doctrines of the New Church were revealed to him from heaven.
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions (Boston, 1817), entry “New Jerusalem Church.”