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Excerpt from Annals of the American Pulpit, or Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen of Various Denominations, Vol. 6: From the Early Settlement of the Country to the Close of the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Five; With Historical Introductions The history of the Baptist denomination in the United States, like that of the other denominations, is so fully developed in the lives of its promi nent ministers, that it is impossible to construct even the most general out line of the former without drawing upon material that must necessarily be embodied in the latter. The present brief sketch is framed with a view to prevent, as far as possible, repetition in the body of the work. When the first Baptists came to this country, or who they were, it is impossible now to ascertain though Cotton Mather says many of the first settlers in Massachusetts were Baptists and he adds that they were as holy, and watchful, and fruitful, and heavenly a people as perhaps any in the world. It may not be uninteresting to note the rise and progress of the denomination, as indicated by its introduction into the several Colonies and States, or rather by the date of the origin of the first Baptist Church in each Colony or State, in chronological order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.