Baptists in Early North Amer-- (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780881469165)

Volume XI of the BENA Series specifically illustrates the presence of Nova Scotia Baptists in the transatlantic community. In the late colonial period, the Maritime Provinces in British North America were a frontier to the emerging American colonies in the process of becoming a new nation. In addition to the administration of His Majesty's government there were significant influences from the New England colonies. From 1760 scores of families from the six New England colonies emigrated especially to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, known as "planters." They were later joined by the United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution to remain loyal to their King. Their settlements, villages, ports, and farms resettled the old Acadian lands and, happily for the British, they anglicized French Maritime Canada. In the historical introduction, Roger Prentice informatively demonstrates the theological and polity formation of a congregation made up of planters and the next generations.

Author: Roger H. Prentice
ISBN-10: 0881469165
ISBN-13: 9780881469165
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2024
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover