sed an influence which went beyond theology into literature; and Dwight produced something uncommonly like literature itself.
Hopkins was born of Puritan stock at Waterbury, Connecticut.
Roused to religious conviction at Yale by his college mate, David Brainerd, and by the revivalist Tennent, he heard Edwards before graduating in 1741, and, still not sure that he was a Christian, concluded to go and live with Mr. Edwards at Northampton as a student of divinity—which he did off and on till 1743.
Then he was settled and ordained at Housatonic (later Great Barrington), where he had to contend with Indian attacks, malaria, and the Dutch settlers in his congregation; taking comfort, however, in a second intimate contact with Edwards while the latter was conducting the mission to the Stockbridge Indians.
In 1769 the poverty of Hopkins's congregation, together with their opposition to his stiff doctrine, led to his dismissal.
In the next year he accepted a call to the First Congregat
wever, rather than the Congregationalists, who took the first decisive step.
In 1785, the congregation of King's Chapel, having adopted a modification of the Anglican liturgy, from which all Trinitarian doctrine had been omitted, ordained and installed as its rector James Freeman, who, together with William Hazlitt (father of the essayist), had performed the revision.
This ordination is usually held to mark the formal beginning of Unitarianism in New England.
The Rev. Joseph Buckminster (1751-1812) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a strict Calvinist, from first to last was doomed to lift up his voice against the liberal movement in vain.
He protested against the Rev. Mr. Foster's Sermon at New Braintree (1788), which, he thought, offered salvation upon too easy terms; in a series of letters (1811) to the Rev. Hosea Ballou (1771-1852）
Great-uncle of Hosea Ballou 2d, who was a founder and the first President of Tufts College. he protested against that pioneer Universalist's preach
