Sep 26, 2018
by Janet Thorngate Fourth in a series of spinoff articles from recent research on the Newport, Rhode Island, Seventh Day Baptists1 There were at least eleven of them. Their stories hide in the records over a period of 123 years. Discovering them elicits emotions from shock and shame to awe and fascination—then admiration. Forty-nine years after the Newport...
Jun 22, 2018
May 5-6, 2018 Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History Each year, the dedicated members of the Council on History (Janet Thorngate, Judy Parrish, Kim Merchant, Tim Lawton and new member Elon Sinclair) meet in Janesville, WI, at the SDB Center to review and direct the work of historic preservation among Seventh Day Baptists. This year, the...
Third in a series of spinoff articles from recent research on the Newport, Rhode Island, Seventh Day Baptists by Janet Thorngate One of the first three people baptized and received into membership in the Newport, Rhode Island, Seventh Day Baptist Church was an Indian named Japeth who lived in New London in Connecticut Colony.1 Later in the year that Japeth was...
by Janet Thorngate Part 1: An Indian whose name is Japeth Second in a series of spinoff articles from recent research on the Newport, Rhode Island, Seventh Day Baptists Several Native Americans joined the Newport, RI, Seventh Day Baptist Church, but none of them lived in Rhode Island.1 A letter from Ruth Burdick in Westerly, Rhode...
Mar 20, 2018
by Donna S. Bond 2001, 2008 and 2018 co-chairman What do a blue agate, two-gallon beribboned coffeepot; a horse and buggy; spring cleaning; egg dishes; a mystery; Christian fellowship; and a 128-year-old springtime tradition have in common? It’s the annual Shiloh (NJ) Easter ride! In 1889, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allen and their neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ayars...
Jan 23, 2018
First in a series of spinoff articles from recent research on the Newport, Rhode Island, Seventh Day Baptists by Janet Thorngate Most people who have even a smattering of American Seventh Day Baptist history know that the first Seventh Day Baptist church in America was founded in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1671 and that Samuel and Tacy Hubbard and...