Elder John Gorton and the Six Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Elder John Gorton and the Six Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Author: Cherry Fletcher Bamberg

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Published: 2001

Total Pages: 642

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Record of sermons, records of members, marriages performed and miscellaneous church records kept by John Gorton in East Greenwich and Warwick, Rhode Island. Includes brief genealogy of John Gorton's family. John Gorton was born 22 April 1723. His parents were Samuel Gorton and Elizabeth Greene. He married Rhoda Bowen (1726-1781), daughter of Daniel Bowen and Priscilla Vinton, in 1746 in Scituate, Massachusetts. They had nine children.

The Diary of Isaac Backus: 1765-1785
The Diary of Isaac Backus: 1765-1785

Author: Isaac Backus

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Published: 1979

Total Pages: 608

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"American historians have long realized that the Baptist minister Isaac Backus (1724-1806) played a signal role in the separation of church and state in New England, but his diary, here published for the first time, makes clear as well his importance as a leader and spokesman of the small dissenting sect that would become after 1800 the largest Protestant denomination in the nation. The diary, covering the sixty-year span from the First to the Second Great Awakening, describes the campaigns he and his colleagues waged for religious liberty and for the propagation of their religious principles." (p. xv) Isaac was a direct descendant in the fifth generation of English immigrant William Backus Sr., who settled in Saybrook, Connecticut in 1637. Issac died before New England abandoned religious taxation (Connecticut in 1818, Massachusetts in 1833), but before his death he was certain New England would eventually switch to Thomas Jefferson's position of separation of church and state.