To the honorable General Assembly of the state of Connecticut
Subtitle: to be holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1803, the remonstrance and petition of a Convention of Elders and Brethren of the Baptist Denomination, assembled at Bristol, on the first Wednesday of February, 1803, respectfully sheweth ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 3723
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1803
Place of publication: Hartford?
Language: eng
Subjects: Baptists; Church and state; Politics and government
Notes: "In short, your petitioners humbly conceive, that the Christian religion is not an object of civil government, nor any ways under its controul ... Whereupon your petitioners pray your honors ... to repeal all the laws of this state which form the religious establishment thereof. ... Dated at Bristol the second day of February ... 1803. Signed by order and in behalf of the said convention. Rufus Babcock, moderator. David Bolles, Junr. clerk."

Text printed in three columns.

Shaw & Shoemaker 3723

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