biography
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| (1724–1806)
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| biography:
| Protestant religious leader, born in Norwich, Connecticut, USA. He underwent religious conversion during the Great Awakening (1741), and a few years later founded the conservative New Light Church in Norwich, CT. He convinced himself that the Scriptures required adult baptism by immersion, and joined the Baptist sect in 1751. From 1756 until his death he was pastor of a Baptist church in Middleborough, MA, where he became a noteworthy defender of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. |
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