Author: Peggy S. BrennanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780752402055
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Cranbury
Author: Peggy S. BrennanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780752402055
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Cranbury
Author: John Whiteclay ChambersPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 081355358X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
One of the oldest towns in New Jersey, Cranbury has a long and noteworthy history that is in part distinctive and in part broadly representative of larger themes in the development of the state and the nation. In this beautifully illustrated book sponsored by Cranbury Landmarks, Inc., historian John Whiteclay Chambers II links the narrative of this remarkable place to contemporary debates about suburbanization and land-use planning. Founded in 1697 and soon featuring an inn, a gristmill, and a church, the village prospered due to its strategic location on important transportation routes between New York and Philadelphia and its fertile, productive farmland. David Brainerd, a famous and controversial young missionary, came there to preach to the Lenape Indians. In 1778, George Washington and his army stayed there on their way to the Battle of Monmouth. In the nineteenth century, roadways, railroads, and turnpikes spurred the town’s commerce and agriculture. Yet unlike many old agricultural centers transformed by suburbanization in the twentieth century, Cranbury has retained its picturesque, small-town image and much of its charm. Cranbury has the feel of a well-preserved nineteenth-century village, remarkable for its intact and cohesive domestic and commercial architecture—a status recognized when it was placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. In the last several decades, an active citizenry has innovatively linked the historic preservation of the town center with the maintenance of adjoining farmland, stream corridors, and wildlife habitats. How Cranbury preserved much of its character while accommodating economic growth provides a central theme in this book. Preserving the best of the past while astutely meeting the challenges of the present, Cranbury’s history offers an inspiration for active civic participation, a model for enlightened development, and an engaging American story. A project of Cranbury Landmarks, Inc.
Congregational and First Presbyterian Church Records at Cranbury, N. J.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Dividing the Faith
Author: Richard J. BolesPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479803189
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches Phillis Wheatley was stolen from her family in Senegambia, and, in 1761, slave traders transported her to Boston, Massachusetts, to be sold. She was purchased by the Wheatley family who treated Phillis far better than most eighteenth-century slaves could hope, and she received a thorough education while still, of course, longing for her freedom. After four years, Wheatley began writing religious poetry. She was baptized and became a member of a predominantly white Congregational church in Boston. More than ten years after her enslavement began, some of her poetry was published in London, England, as a book titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This book is evidence that her experience of enslavement was exceptional. Wheatley remains the most famous black Christian of the colonial era. Though her experiences and accomplishments were unique, her religious affiliation with a predominantly white church was quite ordinary. Dividing the Faith argues that, contrary to the traditional scholarly consensus, a significant portion of northern Protestants worshipped in interracial contexts during the eighteenth century. Yet in another fifty years, such an affiliation would become increasingly rare as churches were by-and-large segregated. Richard Boles draws from the records of over four hundred congregations to scrutinize the factors that made different Christian traditions either accessible or inaccessible to African American and American Indian peoples. By including Indians, Afro-Indians, and black people in the study of race and religion in the North, this research breaks new ground and uses patterns of church participation to illuminate broader social histories. Overall, it explains the dynamic history of racial integration and segregation in northern colonies and states.
The Symmes Memorial
Author: John Adams VintonJournal of the Department of History, Presbyterian Historical Society
Author: Presbyterian Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher ...
Author: Bernard Lee ButcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Counties of Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur, Randolph and Tucker.
Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society
Author: Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia
Author: Bernard Lee ButcherPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806348496
Category : Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
Author: Thomas Scott Long