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Note: !EDUCATION: He graduated from Christ College, Oxford 23 May 1617 @ 19 !OCCUPATION: Ordained as an Episcopal minister. He preached in the counties of Leichester and Derby, England before America. !IMMIGRATION: History of Stratford, CT; Orcutt; Newtown, CT Public Library; Minister in Scituate, MA; Settled in Stratford in spring of 1639. !WILL OF REVEREND ADAM BLACKMAN: dated 16 Mar 1665; Various Published sources; Newtown, CT Public Library. "Item. Because many of God's servants have been falsely accused concerning the judgment of the kinglike power of Christ, though I have cause to bewail my great ignorance and weakness in acting, yet I do and hope I shall, through the strength of Christ, to my dying day, adhere to the form of Church discipline agreed on by the Rev. Elders and brethern in the year 49, now in print. And to the truth of God concerning that point, let on record by that famous and Rev. servant of God, of blessed memory, Mr. Thomas Hooker, in his elaborate work called `The Survey of Church Discipline', to which most in all the churches of Christ then gathered in this colony gave their consent, as appears in the Rev. author's epistle, so at Milford, New Haven, Guilford, and those in the Bay, who could be come at in that stress of time. And, I being one who, in the name of our church, subscribed that copy, could never, (through the grace of Christ), see cause to receive any other judgment nor fall from those principles so soundly backed with Scripture, and arguments which none yet could overturn." "Concerning my books, which I intended for my son, Benjamin, seeing his thoughts be not to attend the work of Christ in the ministry, my wich is that my son, Atwater, make his son, Joshua, a scholar, and fit him for that work, I give unto him all my Latin Books; but if not, they shall be put into my estate and disposed of as my wife and my overseers shall think fit." (See son Benjamin) !EDUCATION: He graduated from Christ College, Oxford 23 May 1617 @ 19 !OCCUPATION: Ordained as an Episcopal minister. He preached in the counties of Leichester and Derby, England before America. !IMMIGRATION: History of Stratford, CT; Orcutt; Newtown, CT Public Library; Minister in Scituate, MA; Settled in Stratford in spring of 1639. !WILL OF REVEREND ADAM BLACKMAN: dated 16 Mar 1665; Various Published sources; Newtown, CT Public Library. "Item. Because many of God's servants have been falsely accused concerning the judgment of the kinglike power of Christ, though I have cause to bewail my great ignorance and weakness in acting, yet I do and hope I shall, through the strength of Christ, to my dying day, adhere to the form of Church discipline agreed on by the Rev. Elders and brethern in the year 49, now in print. And to the truth of God concerning that point, let on record by that famous and Rev. servant of God, of blessed memory, Mr. Thomas Hooker, in his elaborate work called `The Survey of Church Discipline', to which most in all the churches of Christ then gathered in this colony gave their consent, as appears in the Rev. author's epistle, so at Milford, New Haven, Guilford, and those in the Bay, who could be come at in that stress of time. And, I being one who, in the name of our church, subscribed that copy, could never, (through the grace of Christ), see cause to receive any other judgment nor fall from those principles so soundly backed with Scripture, and arguments which none yet could overturn." "Concerning my books, which I intended for my son, Benjamin, seeing his thoughts be not to attend the work of Christ in the ministry, my wich is that my son, Atwater, make his son, Joshua, a scholar, and fit him for that work, I give unto him all my Latin Books; but if not, they shall be put into my estate and disposed of as my wife and my overseers shall think fit." (See son Benjamin)
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