Forgotten Voices. Carolyn Wakeman

Forgotten Voices - Carolyn Wakeman


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      Forgotten Voices

      Forgotten Voices

      The Hidden History of a New England Meetinghouse

      Carolyn Wakeman

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2019 Carolyn Wakeman

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed by David Wolfram

      Typeset in Adobe Garamond Pro, ITC Franklin Gothic

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2019949472

      Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8195-7923-2

      Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8195-7924-9

      5 4 3 2 1

      Front cover photo ‘Church at Old Lyme Connecticut,’ oil on canvas, by the American painter Childe Hassam. Courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

      Contents

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Preface: New Light on Old Stories vii
Acknowledgments xi
1 Meeting Together 1
2 Debate and Delay 9
3 Gathering a Church 18
4 Opinion on Blasphemy 21
5 On Elderly Childbearing 25
6 Lessons from a Wayward Son 29
7 Finding a Successor 35
8 Oxford and Temperance 44
9 A Dark House 47
10 Confessions 51
11 The Minister’s Wife 57
12 Out of Darkness 61
13 Great Danger 67
14 Scandalous Reports 75
15 Difficulties among Ourselves 79
16 Slavery or Independence 85
17 Revolutionary Chaplain 91
18 Invitations 99
19 Silver Tankard 105
20 Architecture and Adornment 111
21 Women Gathering 119
22 Revivals 125
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