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- Title
Huguenot Identity and Protestant Unity in Colonial Massachusetts: The Reverend André Le Mercier and the "Sociable Spirit".
- Authors
WHEELER CARLO, PAULA
- Abstract
Numerous researchers have noted that many Huguenots conformed to Anglicanism several decades after their arrival in North America. The situation differed in colonial Massachusetts, where Huguenots typically forged connections with Congregationalists or Presbyterians. This article explores the activities and writings of André Le Mercier (1692- 1764), the last pastor of the Boston French Church, which closed in 1748. Le Mercier was an ardent supporter of Protestant unity, yet he also strove to preserve a strong sense of Huguenot identity. Nevertheless, support for Protestant unity facilitated Huguenot integration into the English-speaking majority, which fostered the demise of French Reformed churches in New England and thereby weakened Huguenot identity. Paula Wheeler Carlo is a professor of history at Nassau Community College and the author of Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York: Becoming American in the Hudson Valley (Sussex Academic Press, 2005).
- Subjects
HUGUENOTS -- History; RELIGIOUS identity; CONCORD; LE Mercier, Andre -- Political &; social views; ANGLICANS; CONGREGATIONALISTS; PROTESTANT clergy; COLONIAL Massachusetts, ca. 1600-1775; ATTITUDE (Psychology); HISTORY; RELIGION
- Publication
Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 2012, Vol 40, Issue 1/2, p122
- ISSN
0276-8313
- Publication type
Article