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Baptists in Early North America-Newport, Rhode Island, Seventh Day Baptists, Volume III

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BAPTISTS IN EARLY NORTH AMERICA–NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND, SEVENTH DAY BAPTISTS, VOLUME III covers the period 1664 to 1808, from the date some members of Newport’s first Baptist church started meeting for worship at the seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday) throughout the first 137 years in their life as the Newport Seventh Day Baptist Church.

Transcriptions of the church’s first three record books (1692-1808) are preceded by extensive excerpts from the manuscripts and letters of Samuel Hubbard, one of the vital founding members; these document the origins in John Clarke’s Newport Baptist church and the influences from Sabbathkeeping Baptists in mid-seventeenth century England.

The record follows the covenant community, nurtured in colonial Rhode Island’s unique non secular freedom, from Newport’s pioneer period through its Golden Age as a big colonial seaport and its devastation all through the Revolutionary War. Scattered membership may well be found east and south into Plymouth Colony and Martha’s Vineyard and west to Westerly and Hopkinton, Rhode Island, and New London, Connecticut. Members from Native Americans and African “servants” to Rhode Island Governors and rich merchants are also documented. This congregation had involvement with other Baptists in founding Rhode Island College (Brown University) and throughout the Second Great Awakening, then joined with daughter congregations and others to form the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference in 1802.

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