The Churches And Sects of the United States Containing a Brief Account of the
The Churches And Sects of the United States Containing a Brief Account of the
P Douglass Peter Douglass Gorrie
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Rev. John Robinson has the honor of being the father and founder of this body of Christians on the shores of the western wilderness. Mr. Robinson had been a Puritan divine in England, and on the passage of certain ecclesias- tical canons in 1604, by a Convention of Episcopal divines, in which it was required that all ministers with their flocks should conform to the liturgy of the Established Church CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 119 of England on pain of imprisonment and banishment, Mr. Robinson and a... portion of his concjregation, after suffering imprisonment, sought refuge in Holland, and established themselves in the city of Leyden, where they formed a church which, by the addition of other refugees from Eng- land, soon numbered three hundred members. Among these were some who afterwards bore a conspicuous part in the settlement of New-England. In the year 1619 a pat- ent having been obtained from the English Government, a portion of Mr. Robinson's congregation sailed for America and landed at Plymouth Rock, in what was afterwards called the Province of Massachusetts.
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