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18 de ago. de 2024 · Another splinter group of Puritans also left Boston and founded their own colony, that of Connecticut. Their leader, Rev. Thomas Hooker, preached a sermon in 1638 which became the foundation of the constitution they wrote up in 1639—the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
27 de ago. de 2024 · This note-book contains among other interesting material, two sermons by Thomas Hooker, one a Thanksgiving sermon preached October 4, 1638 and the other preached at Windsor June 20, 1647, shortly before Hooker’s death.
Hace 5 días · The Wadsworth Atheneum’s exhibition Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage (through August 26) opens with Church’s monumental painting “Reverend Thomas Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636“ (1846).
7 de sept. de 2024 · They were too tired after being worked all night by the smugglers, who included Captain Dunk, a butcher who lived at Whipping Post House, and the Rev Thomas Hooker, who acted as lookout man in addition to his role as vicar from 1792 to 1838. Contraband did not just come in through the village, it went out as well.
27 de ago. de 2024 · Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) The first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533-56) and principal author of the Book of Common Prayer. He was burnt as a heretic by Mary I.
Hace 4 días · Rhode Island (1636), Connecticut (1636), New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (1682) – founded by Protestants Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker, and William Penn, respectively – combined the democratic form of government which had been developed by the Puritans and the Separatist Congregationalists in Massachusetts with religious freedom.
Hace 17 horas · The Rev. Thomas Hooker, who had arrived in Massachusetts Bay in 1633, soon found himself in opposition to the colony’s restrictive policy regarding the admission of church members and to the oligarchic power of the leaders of the colony.
