Author: Dell Upton Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300065657 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
"Holy Things and Profane is a study of architecture -- of the thirty-seven extant colonial Anglican churches of Virginia and of their vanished neighbors whose existence is recorded in contemporary records, particularly the forty-six vestry books and registers that have survived in whole or in part."--Preface.
Author: Henry Irving Brock Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture, Colonial Languages : en Pages : 114
Book Description
The Colonial church was easy-going as regards doctrines and life, and yet it left its impress on the generations it served. There were churches built in good taste and served by parsons who were scholars if they were not religious enthusiasts. That they were over-fond of fox-hunting and sometimes took a bit too much wine is true, but as they were also the schoolmasters they were perhaps entitled to a little relaxation. A man who preached on Sunday and buried and married, as well as taught six days in the week, was pretty busy. The parsons were farmers besides. -- Introduction.
Author: Frederick Lewis Weis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
The work in hand is an annotated, alphabetical list of about 2,000 clergymen of colonial New England. The annotations furnish such useful genealogical information as place and date of birth and death, names of parents, college of matriculation, date of ordination, religious denomination, names of parishes, with dates in which livings were held, and a variety of similar matter. Also included is a complete list of colonial New England churches.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
"Presented in this volume are two of the finest sets of church records from the colonial era of Massachusetts history that have thus far remained unpublished. Culled from a survey of hundreds of sets of church records, these two sets, from Reading (Wakefield) and Rumney Marsh (Revere), are a testament to the rich diversity of early New England religious culture. Both are remarkable for their chronological breadth, their depth, or both, and reveal an extraordinary amount of information on church life over the course of the colonial era. The Reading records, in particular, are unique insofar as they cover the entire period up to the Revolution, while the Rumney Marsh book casts unprecedented light on the neglected period of 1715 through 1757."--BOOK JACKET.