Related Research Articles
Reverend Leonard Bacon was an American Congregational preacher and writer. He held the pulpit of the First Church New Haven and was later professor of church history and polity at Yale College.
Bethlehem is a town in Litchfield County,Connecticut,United States. The population was 3,385 at the 2020 census,down from 3,607 at the 2010 census. The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The town center is a historic district and a census-designated place (CDP).
Woodbury is a town in Litchfield County,Connecticut,United States. The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The population was 9,723 at the 2020 census. The town center,comprising the adjacent villages of Woodbury and North Woodbury,is designated by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Woodbury Center census-designated place (CDP). Woodbury was founded in 1673.
Abraham Pierson was an American Congregational minister who served as the first rector,from 1701 to 1707,and one of the founders of the Collegiate School —which later became Yale University.
Congregational churches are Protestant churches in the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition practicing congregational government,in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.
Shubal Stearns,was a colonial evangelist and preacher during the Great Awakening. He converted after hearing George Whitefield and planted a Baptist Church in Sandy Creek,Guilford County,North Carolina. Stearns' highly successful ministry was related to the rise and expansion of the Separate Baptists —especially in much of the American South.
Leonard Woolsey Bacon was an American clergyman,born in New Haven,Connecticut. He was a social commentator and a prolific author on religious,social,and historical matters. In social,political,and religious issues of his times,he often broke with the traditions of his countrymen,sometimes causing "great sensation."
Nichols,a historic village in southeastern Trumbull in Fairfield County,Connecticut,is named after the family who maintained a large farm in its center for almost 300 years. The Nichols Farms Historic District,which encompasses part of the village,is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally home to the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation,the area was colonized by the English during the Great Migration of the 1630s as a part of the coastal settlement of Stratford. The construction of the Merritt Parkway through the village,and the subsequent closing of stores and factories,turned the village into a bedroom community in 1939. Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky lived in three separate homes in Nichols during his active years between 1928 and 1951,when he designed,built and flew fixed-wing aircraft and put the helicopter into mass production for the first time.
Nichols Farms is a historic area within the town of Trumbull,Connecticut. The Nichols Farms Historic District,which encompasses part of the area,is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Joseph Hawley (1603–1690),may have been born in Parwich,Derbyshire,England,was the first of the Hawley name to come to America in 1629. He settled at Stratford,Connecticut,by 1650,becoming the town's first town clerk or record keeper,tavern (ordinary) keeper and a shipbuilder.
Ashley Day Leavitt (1877–1959) was a Yale-educated Congregational minister who led the State Street Church in Portland,Maine,and later the Harvard Congregational Church in Brookline,Massachusetts. Leavitt was a frequent public speaker during the early twentieth century,and was awarded an honorary degree from Bowdoin College for his pastorship of several congregations during wartime.
Trumbull,a town in Fairfield County,Connecticut,in the New England region of the United States,was originally home to the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation,and was colonized by the English during the Great Migration of the 1630s as a part of the coastal settlement of Stratford.
George Blagden Bacon was a United States clergyman and author of texts on religious issues. Bacon was a congregational pastor in Orange,New Jersey. The ministry ran in the Bacons' blood:George B. Bacon was the son of Leonard Bacon and the brother of Leonard Woolsey Bacon,both Congregationalist pastors;two other brothers were also preachers,Thomas Rutherford Bacon of New Haven,and Edward Woolsey Bacon of New London,Connecticut.
Lieut. Joseph Judson was an early New England colonist best known for co-founding the town of Woodbury,Connecticut.
William Thompson Bacon was an American minister,editor,and author.
Pilgrim Uniting Church is a Uniting church located on Flinders Street,Adelaide in South Australia.
Robert W. Hill was an American architect from Waterbury,Connecticut. He was one of Connecticut's most important 19th century architects.
Abijah Perkins Marvin was an American minister,writer,and teacher. He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853,and a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Avery Judd Skilton M.D. was an American physician and naturalist who practiced medicine in Troy,New York,for 30 years. He was also a curator at the Troy Lyceum of Natural History,studying mineralogy,geology,botany,conchology,and paleontology,and in his later years pursued genealogy.
Congregationalism in the United States consists of Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition that have a congregational form of church government and trace their origins mainly to Puritan settlers of colonial New England. Congregational churches in other parts of the world are often related to these in the United States due to American missionary activities.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Cothren, William (1872), "History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: From the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1872, Volume II.", William Cothren, Woodbury, Connecticut, p. 1404
- 1 2 Anderson, Joseph (1892), The Churches of Mattatuck: A Record of A Bi-Centennial Celebration at Waterbury, Connecticut, November 4th and 5th, 1891., New Haven, Connecticut, p. 167
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)