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Following the American Revolution, the majority of Connecticut's religious societies tore down their boxy eighteenth-century meetinghouses and replaced them with something totally different: spired churches with an elaborate entrance portico on one of the shorter facades. These new buildings signaled a change in how these Christians conceptualized worship space, and in their fundamental understanding of the relationship between the spiritual and material aspects of their lives. Because these new churches evoked a much-beloved myth of tightly-bound communities sharing democratic values and faith in God, they have often been romanticized as emblems of a bygone era of pastoral serenity. Yet, Ne...
Thomas Weatherbee (Weatherby) (ca. 1682-1752) was born in Hampshire, England and immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts and married Elizabeth Freeman (d. before 1724) in 1711. He later married Sarah Warren (1698-1760) in Boston. They eventually settled in Dedham, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Nebraska, Illinois, Connecticut, Ohio, Maine, and elsewhere.