Rev John Myles And the Founding of the First Baptist Church in Massachusetts
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Four days later the massacre commenced. Nine of the inhabi- tants were slain and seven wounded. " Mr. Myles' house was used as a garrison, and he himself became the brave leader of his little flock in the defence of their firesides. Assist- ance arriving from neighboring towns, the In- dians fled, leaving in their wake mutilated bodies and burning buildings. The families of the parish were scattered, seeking shelter in Providence and Newport. Mr. Myles found his way to Boston, where in 1665, tw...o years 44 REV. JOHN MYLES. after the Swansea church was formed, a Bap- tist church had been organized under the leadership of Thomas Goold, who was a friend of Henry Dunster, the first president of Har- vard University, a man who was said to be "a miracle of scholarship, " but being compelled to dissent from the scripturalness of infant bap- tism, or as Cotton Mather said : "having fallen into the briars of antipedobaptism, " and being unable to recant, he was ejected from his of- fice. * President Dunster undoubtedly attended the early conferences of the Baptists in Boston, •Brooks Adams, in "The Emancipation of Massachu- setts, " p.
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