Content provided in partnership with

Who were the evangelicals?: conservative and liberal identity in the Unitarian controversy in Boston, 1804-1833 - Massachusetts

Journal of Social History, Winter, 1997 by Mary Kupiec Cayton

<< Page 1 Continued from page 19. Previous | Next

29. Frothingham, 2-3.

30. Frothingham, 93.

31. Frothingham, 101-102.

32. Christian Spectator (November 1820), 2:596.

33. Beecher, in Beecher, ed., Autobiography, vol. 2, 60. Barbara Cross, in her Introduction to Beecher's Autobiography, states that Beecher's Hanover Street congregation was not wealthy and that his churches continually struggled against poverty. Unitarians thought Beecher's parishioners to be "clerks and servants" who had been attending masters' churches perfunctorily (xxix).

34. Beecher to William Beecher, Boston, 10 April 1826, in Beecher, Autobiography, ed. Cross, vol. 2, 51.

35. Wright, "Ministers, Churches, and the Boston Elite," 37-58.

Most Popular Articles in Reference: The importance of understanding organizational culture; Credit card attitudes and behaviors of college students; What factors attract foreign direct investment?; Libraries Need Relationship Marketing - mutual interest marketing concept, ...; How to set performance goals: employee reviews are more than annual critiques; More »

36. Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease, "Whose Right Hand of Fellowship? Pew and Pulpit in Shaping Church Practice," in American Unitarianism, 1805-1865, 181-206.

37. Sykes, 122, 133.

38. See also Frederic Cople Jaher, The Urban Establishment: Upper Strata in Boston, New York, Charles ton, Chicago, and Los Angeles (Urbana, 1982), 10-101, and Story, The Forging of an Aristocracy.

39. Ware, Sober Thoughts, in Ahlstrom and Carey, 365-366.

40. Frothingham, 72.

41. See Sykes, 141-145, and Schneider, 17-24.

42. Anne C. Rose, "Social Sources of Denominationalism Reconsidered: Post-Revolutionary Boston as a Case Study," American Quarterly 38 (1986): 243-264.

43. Pease and Pease, "Whose Right Hand of Fellowship?" See especially Table III, 185.

44. Of the first one hundred members of Park Street Church, seventy mention in their conversion narratives having been born or having lived in a place other than Boston for a substantial period of time. The place other than Boston was usually a small town in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, or New York. Twenty-nine mentioned having been in the city for less than four years, nineteen for less than two. The bulk of Beecher's original congregation at Hanover Street was admitted from Park Street Church. By 1827, when the Salem Street Church was established, many of those admitted had already held prior membership in Park Street, Hanover or Old South (orthodox), so their places of birth or early residence are not always immediately apparent. Of the 253 members admitted between 1827 and 1832, 111 (or 43.9%) reported prior membership at one of the city's other Congregational churches. Of those for whom we have indications of place of birth or prior residence, ninety (or 35.6%) explicitly reported have come from or spent considerable amounts of time in places outside Boston - mainly in the kinds of small towns in the New England hinterland that furnished the supply of emigrants for Park Street. Thirty-two of the members mentioned boarding with some other church member, suggesting their youth, and a number of others were sons and daughters of communicants. Park Street Church, Index of Members, 1809-1850, MS, Congregational Library, Boston; Salem Street Church, Boston, List of Members Received to the Salem Church from its Organization in 1827 Down to 1853 - Also Members Removed, MS, Congregational Library, Boston.

Who were the evangelicals?: conservative and liberal identity in the Unitarian controversy in Boston, 1804-1833 - Massachusetts

Journal of Social History, Winter, 1997 by Mary Kupiec Cayton

Find Research Guides for:

Find Featured Titles for: Health

Most Popular Articles in Reference

Most Popular Publications in Reference