Boston 1775

History, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution in New England.

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Showing posts with label Shippie Townsend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shippie Townsend. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Boston Discovers Universal Salvation

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I’ve been following the religious evolution of two men who left the Old South Meeting-House congregation in the late 1760s: retired artille...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Shippie Townsend, Author

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In the spring of 1768, a pamphlet was published in Boston with the title A Modest Account concerning the Salutations and Kissings in ancient...
Monday, December 29, 2008

People Who Prayed in Glas Houses

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In 1728, a Presbyterian minister named John Glas was asked to leave his pulpit in Tealing, Scotland, because he had published some unorthodo...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

“Withdrawn Irregularly from the Communion”

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The records of the Old South Meeting-House (shown at the right, courtesy of the Freedom Trail Foundation ) contain this note of a discussio...
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