A Statement of the Singular Manner of Proceeding of the Rev. Association of the South Part of Litchfield County, in an Ecclesiastical Prosecution, by them instituted against the Rev. Stanley Griswold, pastor of the First Church of Christ in New-Milford; who, without being in his own defence, was by them sentenced to an exclusion from their associate communion...Together with a subsequent address to said Association
Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1798. First Edition. "Despite the fact that he was an unusually successful preacher...[Griswold] was expelled in 1797 by the Litchfield South Ministerial Association, ostensibly on doctrinal grounds, although it was generally believed that his political heresies were more responsible for the action" (DAB). Griswold later made a...... More