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No Peace in New London: Mather Byles, the Rogerenes, and the Quest for Religious Order in Late Colonial New England

Vaughan, Jonathan Blake
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1249065038

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2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
In April, 1768 Congregational minister Mather Byles abruptly left his parishioners in New London, Connecticut and converted to the Church of England. Even though Anglicanism had been marginal in colonial New England, Byles joined a growing number of “apostates” who abandoned Congregational orthodoxy for the sense of order and stability afforded by the official church of imperial Britain. Byles stated that among his primary reasons for leaving New London and Congregationalism were the incessant conflicts that arose between him and the religious dissenters known as the Rogerenes. This thesis narrates the conflict between Byles and the followers of John Rogers—a little known series of incidents that occurred during Byles’s tenure in New London—as well as Byles’s subsequent reassessment of the viability of the New England Way and conversion to the Church of England.
Carla G. Pestana, PhD (Advisor)
Andrew R. L. Cayton, PhD (Committee Member)
P. Renee Baernstein, PhD (Committee Member)
53 p.
American History; Clergy; History; Religious History
Mather Byles; Rogerenes; John Rogers; Colonial New England; New London, Connecticut; Congregationalism; Church of England; Religion;

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  • Vaughan, J. B. (2009). No Peace in New London: Mather Byles, the Rogerenes, and the Quest for Religious Order in Late Colonial New England [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1249065038

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vaughan, Jonathan. No Peace in New London: Mather Byles, the Rogerenes, and the Quest for Religious Order in Late Colonial New England. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1249065038.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vaughan, Jonathan. "No Peace in New London: Mather Byles, the Rogerenes, and the Quest for Religious Order in Late Colonial New England." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1249065038

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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