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 April 27, 1742, two of the region’s most aggressive riding ministers, Daniel Rogers and Samuel Buell, “formed a Party, and took Possession” of the meetinghouse without Lowell’s consent.