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Title:
  • John Clarke's world / Cherry Fletcher Bamberg & Judith Crandall Harbold.
Call No:
  • F82.C53
  • B36
Summary note:
  • "John Clarke, one of the founders of Rhode Island, lived in a world very different from ours, a world of wonders, of religious explanations for natural and social events, of new beginnings and profound dislocation in his native country. He remains a more remote figure than Roger Williams or Samuel Gorton. Nonetheless, John Clarke had family and wives, friends and enemies, as well as communities of faith in American and in England. This book explores these connections as well as the settings of John Clarke's life: the village in which he grew up, the towns he helped to found in Rhode Island, and the vast metropolis of London in which he won the Rhode Island charter of 1663. Against the passionate opposition of Rhode Island's neighbors, John Clarke's championship of toleration of religion helped to make it one of America's core principles"--Jacket
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Physical Description:
  • xxxiii, [1]. 460 pages :
  • illustrations, maps, portraits, genealogical tables ;
  • 27 cm
Notes:
  • Genealogical tables on lining-papers.
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-429) and index.
  • Introduction -- Editorial method -- A brief timeline -- Key to titles -- Odd colony out -- Westhorpe beginnings -- The marriage mystery -- Leaving home -- Born in Boston -- On the wing -- Push and pull -- Both plantations? -- Newport -- The quest for legitimacy -- John Clarke, "physician and preacher" -- The first gatherers -- Mark Lucar and Samuel Hubbard -- The Rehoboth people -- The long road to Lynn -- William Witter -- In the eye of the storm -- The trial -- A whipping and its consequences -- Setting off for England -- Appealing to higher authority -- The elusive John Clarke in London -- King Jesus and King Charles II -- The quest for Rhode Island's charter -- Beginning again in New England -- The king's commissioners -- Return to the Newport church -- Baptist churches in surprising places -- Rumors of war -- Setting boundaries -- The fight with friends -- Finding Sarah -- The end of the beginning -- Epilogue -- Appendix : Ill newes from New-England.
  • "John Clarke, one of the founders of Rhode Island, lived in a world very different from ours, a world of wonders, of religious explanations for natural and social events, of new beginnings and profound dislocation in his native country. He remains a more remote figure than Roger Williams or Samuel Gorton. Nonetheless, John Clarke had family and wives, friends and enemies, as well as communities of faith in American and in England. This book explores these connections as well as the settings of John Clarke's life: the village in which he grew up, the towns he helped to found in Rhode Island, and the vast metropolis of London in which he won the Rhode Island charter of 1663. Against the passionate opposition of Rhode Island's neighbors, John Clarke's championship of toleration of religion helped to make it one of America's core principles"--Jacket
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