Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. . order to ihe comfortable en-joyment of the ordinances of G; id. The meas-ure of discomfort inxclved in wiiuer trijis byb:.d roails and worse ferries the fireless nisi ORIC GROTON sanctuary i .n the f; irther ? .ide of tl le Thames we can cas .ily ciun prehen, .1: and t.: J many of indep endent f: arniers there was an added element ijf disc(.inifc: irt in the autocratic niinis- trations of the Re\ erend Gurdon I Saltonsta
Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. . order to ihe comfortable en-joyment of the ordinances of G; id. The meas-ure of discomfort inxclved in wiiuer trijis byb:.d roails and worse ferries the fireless nisi ORIC GROTON sanctuary i .n the f; irther ? .ide of tl le Thames we can cas .ily ciun prehen, .1: and t.: J many of indep endent f: arniers there was an added element ijf disc(.inifc: irt in the autocratic niinis- trations of the Re\ erend Gurdon I Saltonstall. A stately Puritan of the Puritans, an aristo- crat til his t^n-er tips, ^ ,vho felt in himself few nf the 1 iihrniilie s In- inianity a nd was in- tiilerent nf them in nthers : the \w ist forceful character ounfcirtunate f his daly the c y andhanipii ,L;eneratiom of the n, he was worst as \>ell as the he^t elei nents . .f a dyin^ ; ecclesias- tical systei n. To his pn tent intfu ence with the (ieiicral (nurt \ vas lar ,t;-ely due the failure nl the us |ira_\e rs for a sejwrate church es- tahli^hnient in ( nn whi ch were laid before. •fnmph common lands sluiuld be sold or (Otherwiseused for church purposes, and the dwellerseast of the river had called as their ministerthe Reverend Ephraim Woodbridge of Kil-lingworth, a recent Har\ard graduate, andborn of an unbroken line of clergymen fromthe days of Wyckliffe down. In the earlyspring of 1703. a committee appointed for thepurpose reported a sale to Thomas Dunbar(already nientinned) id nineteen acres of thepubhc lands fur church purposes. The lo-cation of the Meeting House was determinedas we have seen, and the clearing at Center(iroton soon rang with the sound of axe andhammer where there were few to be cheeredor disturljed h\ the echoes. At its October session the General Courtwas pleased to ratify these proceedings, and atthe May session of 1704, also solemnly ap-ved of an addition of 20 pounds per ann
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