Liverpool's Historic Connections to America.
Discover the connections between the City of Liverpool and America, which have existed from the sixteenth century, right up to the present time.
Discover the connections between the City of Liverpool and America, which have existed from the sixteenth century, right up to the present time.
Liverpool
The Gateway To America
The Gateway To America
Liverpool's Historic Connections to America.
Discover the connections between the City of Liverpool and America, which have existed from the sixteenth century, right up to the present time.
Discover the connections between the City of Liverpool and America, which have existed from the sixteenth century, right up to the present time.
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Pilgrim Fathers
Richard Mather – Minister at Toxteth Chapel Liverpool. Born 1596, Lowton, Lancashire, England. Died April 22, 1669, Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay .
Members of three successive generations of the Mather family were Puritan ministers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England: Richard (1596–1669), Increase (1629–1723), and Cotton (1663–1728).
Each achieved fame as a preacher and writer, and collectively they exerted a formative influence on the religious life of colonial America.
The first in this distinguished line of New England clergymen was Richard Mather, who was born in Lowton, near Liverpool, matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1618 but studied there for only a few months.
He was preaching at Toxteth Park in Liverpool when, late in 1633, he was removed from the pulpit.
His offences are not known, although they were doubtless ecclesiastical; as he did not conform to the practices of the Church of England in many ways.
He and his family then emigrated from Liverpool to Massachusetts Bay, arriving in mid-August 1635.
The people of Dorchester, Massachusetts, after failing to organize a church in April 1636, succeeded in August of that year, and Mather was immediately called to the church as its teacher.
In the pulpit in Dorchester, the Rev Mather served quietly and faithfully.
Although in most ways he probably resembled most Puritan ministers of his time in Massachusetts Bay Colony, in several notable accomplishments he differed.
He published defences of the "New England Way," as the church policy of the Bay Colony was called; he helped to write
the Cambridge Platform (1648) defining ecclesiastical polity; he also contributed to the definition of Puritan baptismal practice in the so-called Halfway Covenant (1662); and eventually he served as founder and overseer of Harvard College.
His other claim to fame was being the first known of many notable figures to travel to America from Liverpool in search of a new life across the Atlantic ocean.
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Toxteth Ancient Chapel Liverpool