To the honorable General Assembly of the state of Connecticut : to be holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1803, the remonstrance and petition of a Convention of Elders and Brethren of the Baptist Denomination, assembled at Bristol, on the first Wednesday of February, 1803, respectfully sheweth ...

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Babcock, Rufus, 1758-1842.

Connecticut. General Assembly.

Conference Name:

Convention of Elders and Brethren of the Baptist Denomination (1803 : Bristol, Conn.)

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 3723.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baptists--Connecticut.

Baptists.

Church and state--Connecticut.

Church and state.

Connecticut--Politics and government--1775-1865.

Connecticut.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Memorials (Legal)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Hartford?] : [publisher not identified], [1803]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

"In short, your petitioners humbly conceive, that the Christian religion is not an object of civil government, nor any ways under its controul ... Whereupon your petitioners pray your honors ... to repeal all the laws of this state which form the religious establishment thereof. ... Dated at Bristol the second day of February ... 1803. Signed by order and in behalf of the said convention. Rufus Babcock, moderator. David Bolles, Junr. clerk."

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