The separation of church and state in Acworth, New Hampshire: Historical New Hampshire/ by Walter A. Ryan.
- Title:
- The separation of church and state in Acworth, New Hampshire: Historical New Hampshire/ by Walter A. Ryan.
- Author:
- Ryan, Walter A.,
- Call Number:
- 977.8 N5321h
- Publication Information:
- Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1979.
- Physical Description:
- p. 143-153: illustrations.
- Source:
- Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1979 Vol. 34, issue 2 (Summer 1979) Historical New Hampshire
- Description:
- Until 1819 each New Hampshire town or parish could establish its own church and pay the minister's salary through public taxes. Acworth, settled in 1767, began to build a meetinghouse in 1783, and acquired its first settled minister in 1789. In 1790 some residents objected to the ministerial tax, and soon the Baptists and Universalists protested the Congregationality monopoly of the meetinghouse.The dispute simmered until the Toleration Act was passed in 1819. By 1821 Acworth had a separate town house and meetinghouse, and after 1822 Congregationalists paid their minister's salary themselves.
- Subjects:
- Church and state. , Taxation. , Toleration Act (1819).
- Locations:
- Acworth (N.H.).
- Organizations:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Periodicals History.
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