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DEXTER, HENRY MARTYN (1821—1890)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 141 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEXTER, See also:HENRY See also:MARTYN (1821—1890) , See also:American See also:clergy-See also:man and author, was See also:born in Plympton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 13th of See also:August 1821. He graduated at Yale in 1840 and at the See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1844; was pastor of a Congregational See also:church in See also:Manchester, New See also:Hampshire, in 1844—1849, and of the See also:Berkeley See also:Street Congregational church, See also:Boston, in 1849—1867; was an editor of the Congregationalist in 1851—1866, of the Congregational Quarterly in 1859—1866, and of the Congregationalist, with which the See also:Recorder was merged, from 1867 until his See also:death in New See also:Bedford, See also:Mass., on the 13th of See also:November 1890. He was an authority on the See also:history of See also:Congregationalism and was lecturer on that subject at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1877—1879 ; he See also:left his See also:fine library on the Puritans in See also:America to Yale University. Among his See also:works are: Congregationalism, What it is, Whence it is, How it works, Why it is better than any other See also:Form of Church See also:Government, and its consequent Demands (1865), The Church Polity of the Puritans the Polity of the New Testament (1870), As to See also:Roger See also:Williams and His " Banishment" from the Massachusetts See also:Colony (1876), Congregationalism of the Last Three See also:Hundred Years, as seen in its Literature (1880), his most important See also:work, A Handbook of Congregationalism (1880), The True See also:Story of See also:John See also:Smyth, the "Se-Baptist " (1881), See also:Common Senseas to Woman See also:Suffrage (1885), and many reprints of See also:pamphlets bearing on See also:early church history in New See also:England, especially Baptist controversies. His The England and See also:Holland of the Pilgrims was completed by his son, See also:Morton Dexter (b. 1846), and published in 19os.

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