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October 4, 2002. The Kingston Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the center of Kingston, Massachusetts. The district is about 30 acres (12 ha) in size, and extends along Main Street ( Massachusetts Route 106) between the First Parish Unitarian Church and the Mayflower Congregational Church, and for a short way along ...
Died. September 19, 1865. (1865-09-19) (aged 66) Roxbury, Boston. Occupation. Merchant. Henry Northey Hooper (1799 – 1865) was a 19th-century American manufacturer and merchant of decorative lighting, Civil War artillery, and bells and chimes. He was a Boston politician and foundry owner and in his firm he cast the first life-size bronze ...
Robin Rex Meyers is an American Christian minister, peace activist, philosopher and author of seven books on Liberal and Progressive Christian theology in Western society and the Christian left. [1] He has been a syndicated columnist and a commentator for National Public Radio and was the Senior Minister of the Mayflower Congregational United ...
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John Cotton (4 December 1585 – 23 December 1652) was a clergyman in England and the American colonies, and was considered the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He studied for five years at Trinity College, Cambridge, and nine years at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He had already built a reputation as a scholar ...
Kingston was first established as Plymouth's northern precinct in 1717 upon the creation of First Parish Kingston, now a Unitarian Universalist church in the town's center. [3] Kingston was incorporated as a distinct town on June 16, 1726, following a tax dispute between the residents of north and south Plymouth, when the parish was known as ...
John Robinson (pastor) John Robinson (1576–1625) was the pastor of the "Pilgrim Fathers" before they left on the Mayflower. He became one of the early leaders of the English Separatists called Brownists, and is regarded (along with Robert Browne and Henry Barrow) as one of the founders of the Congregational Church.
John Lothropp. Rev. John Lothropp (1584–1653) – or Lothrop, or Lathrop – was an English Anglican clergyman, who became a Congregationalist minister and emigrant to New England. He was among the first settlers of Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1639. Lothropp was a strong proponent of the separation of church and state.