Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

On the same day that the general consociation of ministers met in Guilford, John Curtis and Christopher Christophers—both Yale College graduates and prominent New London merchants and magistrates—submitted a petition to the county court requesting the right to worship in a separate church.