John Smith I the Miller 1595-1650 Thirteen Generations of Direct Descendants
John Smith I the Miller 1595-1650 Thirteen Generations of Direct Descendants

Author: Joan Smith Gazzuolo

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 168470992X

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"This is the story of an early immigrant to America, about 1630, named John Smith, who arrived with a wife and children in Massachusetts. His goal was to find a place to live, with people who wanted freedom of religion and speech and lack of prejudice in dealing with the Indians and people of all religions. The story in the book tells how this was accomplished over the next twelve generations"--

Adin Ballou's Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England
Adin Ballou's Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England

Author: Bryce Hal Taylor

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-12-13

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1498589723

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New England Christianity in the nineteenth century produced an almost unending stream of new and old denominations that speckled the landscape. Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Universalists, Spiritualists, Unitarians, Restorationists, and Calvinists—to name a few—beckoned each individual to join their growing movements. Each professed its truths and some proclaimed theirs was the only path leading to salvation. Admist this Christian angst, Adin Ballou began his spiritual quest to obtain truth. Through Ballou's lengthy spiritual quest, from 1820 to 1880, this book examines how denominational histories, however important, do not explain what a nineteenth-century New England Christian became. Ballou exemplifies this paradox. Always fixed, but never settled. Once a believer chose a path, new phenomena and teachings immediately appeared leaving one's truth claims transient. Through the Christian maze of nineteenth-century New England, Ballou's Christian faith was simply his own.