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Identifier: oldnewenglandchu00bacouoft (find matches)
Title: Old New England churches and their children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bacon, Mary Schell (Hoke), 1870-
Subjects: New England -- Church history
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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enport, the strong and gracious spiritwho presided over this small body of people, wasknown to the Indians as the so-big-study-man;and this could have been no misnomer for a manwho left more than a thousand dollars worth ofbooks behind him at a time when such literaryinvestment might well have stood for a Camegieanprodigality in literature. Primitive as were the conditions, the foundersof the New Haven colony, who are synonymouswith the founders of Centre Church, lived with arelative degree of magnificence. TheophilusEatons house had nineteen fireplaces within itand John Davenports is said to have had thirteen.Davenport arrived at Quinnipiac with twin deter-minations: to found a settlement which shouldbe governed by the Church, and to establish agreat nucleus of learning. After a desperateseason, during which the settlers lived in cellars—the only part of their homes then habitable—aseason of alternate hope and despair, John Daven-port, witnessing no ecclesiastic or civil advance-
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Centre Church, New Haven, Conn. 293 ment in the colonial organisation, determinedto bring order out of chaos, and a meeting wascalled in Robert Newmans bam. This was onJune 4, 1639. The colony had been composed ofPuritans and Separatists. The Separatists wereled by Samuel Eaton who finally merged his ownauthority in Davenports purpose to establisha civil government which should be in all thingsamenable to the church. The minutes of thatmeeting in Robert Newmans bam were spreadby Newman. Twelve men were chosen toselect in turn seven who were to organise thechurch. These seven were Theophilus Eaton,John Davenport, Robert Newman, Matthew Gil-bert, Thomas Fugill, John Punderson, and Jere-miah Dixon. The elective franchise was limitedto church members. As a result of this June meet-ing, the First Church of Christ in New Haven wasestablished on the 22nd of August, 1639. The ecclesiastical administration in New Havenwas to be the antithesis of the liberal adminis-tration at Plymouth. Under t

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