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

Between his ordination in 1719 and his death in 1742, Brown promoted 420 parishioners to full church membership; baptized 1,088 infants, children, and adults; and placed 325 congregants under the watch of the church through a ritual known as owning the covenant.