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“We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire, those rights, which they have delivered to our care: We owe it to posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed”. THE BIRTH OF A TOWN Junius Letters 1769 - 1771 The century in which Martin Luther translated the Holy Bible into the German language was one of upheaval in Europe. Discouraged by the state of the churches, college fellows and students alike began to reject their hierarchy, “ ‘ separating ‘ from the established churches.” Every church’s congregation would manage its own affairs submitting to the Holy Bible as the supreme authority.” The term “separatistcongregationalist” came into use. In England in 1609 those who believed in separating escaped with their families to the Netherlands. These “pilgrims” left Holland in 1620 and “for their better ordering and preservation, ...desiring a place devoyed of all civil inhabitants,” sailed from South Hampton, England to the new world. All Congregational Churches in America trace their origin to these Pilgrims, the founding fathers. They have become to all Americans, “a lesson of how a few people persevered with little more than a deep faith, extreme courage, friends and hard work.” Forty-one men of all social classes, upon landing at Cape Cod in 1620, met onboard the Mayflower and drew up the Mayflower Compact, a covenant recognized by historians as being the first document of a democracy, “combining themselves together for their better ordering and preservation to unite politically, living together in a peaceful and orderly manner under civil authorities of their own choosing.” The Reverend Mr. Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut, like the Separatist leaders Henry Barrow, John Greenwood, John Penry, the Rev. John Robinson and Elder William Brewster, was educated at Cambridge University and was numbered among those who wished to separate from the established church. He escaped to the Netherlands in 1630. Hooker traveled to (Newtown) Cambridge, Massachusetts to serve as their Separatist-Congregational minister in 1633. In disagreement with Governor Winthrop and the belief that the “ ruling class Magistrates should serve for life, and opposing the close union of church and state,” Hooker received a commission from Winthrop and in 1636 left Cambridge. A colony of sixty or more men, women and children, led by their minister, made their way to the Connecticut River and Hartford, “ in search of wider fields for cultivation and good pasture land and rest under a government according to God.” (Harvard Dorothy B. Taggart College was built on Hooker’s homestead.) “Allowing for differences,” a synod of the Cambridge Platform was draw up for New England churches. Each settlement had an individuality of its own. Each ‘town’ had its own Congregational Church, Pastor, teacher, covenant and became an individual community. (The Separatist- Congregational churches took the single name Congregational in 1646.) On May 31 st 1638 the Reverend Mr. Thomas Hooker preached a sermon at the General Court in Hartford, “laying down the principles by which government should be established.” Men of the Connecticut Colony met, and under the leadership of Hooker, drafted the “Funè PROFESSIONAL ELECTRIC FOR YOUR ELECTRICAL NEEDS LICENSED AND INSURED OUR SPECIALTIES • 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE • OLD WORK RENOVATIONS • LIGHTING CONSULTANTS DENYS CROWLEY DANIEL LARSON (LIC.# 103826) 147 HOPE VALLEY ROAD AMSTON, CT 06231 860-228-9170 The Hebronian June 2009 Page 14 E-mail your news to: hebronian@gulemo.com
damental Orders of Connecticut, the first constitution that created a government, in the world.” In less than a year the Connecticut Constitution of 1639 and the General Court passed orders reserving to the towns the rights of choosing their own officers, passing local laws, assessing, taxing and choosing a local court. The “Court of Magistrates” developed into the Board of Selectmen. Eighty-eight years after the landing of the Pilgrims, and seventy years after the Hooker sermon, the town of Hebron was incorporated. It is the second town to be given a biblical name. The town of Hebron, was incorporated in 1708. The first Town Meeting was held in September of that year. The primary business State were not fully separated until the adoption of the Connecticut discussed was that of establishing a church. In those days the church Constitution of 1818. With all of its changes the Constitution affirms was supported by taxation, the General Court overseeing and autho- Headers in spirit, the greater part of the provisions of the Fundamental Orders rizing new parishes. of 1639. The town continued to call upon the General Assembly for the settle- References ment of land disputes, and the releasing of the land of legatees Joshua (Son of Uncas, Sachem of the Mohegans) and Major John Mason legatees. The history of our Town and that of the Congregational Church are interwoven and for many years they were synonymous. Church and Andrews, Charles M., The Fathers of New England, Yale University Press Thorpe, Francis Newton, Constitutional History, University of Pennsylvania Sunday ProgramS 6:30 AM Dialogue (Ct. Radio Network) Steve Kotchko 7:15 am Jesus Is Victor: Pastor Fred Shapiro,First Baptist Church, Wmtc 7:30 am Light on the Hill Christian Fellowship: Pastor John Heald, Light on the Hill, Wmtc 7:45 am Message of Truth: Pastor Jack Schneider,Columbia Baptist Fellowship 8:00 am Ukrainian Melodies: Your hosts,Eugene Babij & Myron Deadline Dates: Feb. 10, May 10, Aug. 10, Nov. 10 8:30 am Christian Science Sentinel: Christian Science Church/Reading Room, Wmtc 9:04 am In His Presence Ministry: Your host, Mike Vrable 9:30 am The TRUTH: Your host, J Allen Stein 10:05 am Computer Tamers: Your hosts, Allen, Jaison & Mish Stein 6:00 pm Festival of Gospel Music: Rev. Fred Shapiro 9:05 pm The TRUTHreplay: J Allen Stein The Hebronian June 2009 Page 15
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