New England and the Bavarian Illuminati

by Vernon Stauffer

[132] The Pub. Records of the Colony of Conn., vol. viii, p. 456.

[133] Ibid., p. 457.

[134] Backus, History of New England, vol. ii, p. 57.

[135] Cobb, The Rise of Religious Liberty in America, pp. 274 et seq. Greene, The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut, pp. 244 et seq.

[136] Cf. supra, [Footnote 129].

[137] Backus, History of New England, vol. ii, pp. 59 et seq., 62, 65 et seq., 77 et seq., 81 et seq.

[138] Greene, The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut, pp. 248–262. The difficulties experienced by three congregations in New Haven, Canterbury, and Enfield, are dealt with in detail.

[139] A revision of Connecticut laws took place in 1750. The unjust legislation of 1742–43 and of the following years was quietly left out.

[140] Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, vol. iii, pp. 398 et seq.

[141] Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America, p. 21.