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

more than 330 Connecticut Separates who signed a 1748 petition drafted by Canterbury minister Solomon Paine requesting the right to worship apart from the churches of the standing order in accordance with the 1689 Toleration Act.