Religious congregations in Massachusetts, 1775

Format:

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

Cappon, Lester Jesse, 1900- ed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church buildings--Massachusetts--18th century--Maps.

Church buildings.

Religions--Massachusetts--18th century--Maps.

Religions.

Physical Description:

color map ; 29 x 41 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ. : Princeton University Press, 1976.

Notes:

"This map of all known churches and congregations active in 1775 shows the predominance of the Congregational tax-supported establishment, with at least one church in almost every town. There were, however, numberous dissenting congregations, patricularly in the southeast, forming a pattern that reflects in part the strength of similar groups in Rhode Island and Connecticut. About one-third of the towns mapped had at least one dissenting church. A town's first Congregational meetinghouse typically was at the oldest nuclear settlement, while dissenting groups often appeared at newer villages or on fringes of settled areas. The symbol for town (included are several districts, plantations, common land, and Indian land areas) denotes a geographic area, the town, and its location is usually at the village with the same name. Church symbols do not show the exact locations of congregations since they are grouped by the appropriate town name. County boundaries shown are those of 1775, state boundaries those of 1975"

Text page from the Atlas of Early American History, The Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790, page 37.

OCLC:

36983086