Truth Espoused, Relative to the Difficulties that Existed in the Town of Manchester, Massachusetts: Between James Thurston, Minister of the Gospel, and a Respectable Number of the Inhabitants of Manchester--and which Occasioned a Majority of the Male Members of the Church, and a Respectable Proporation of the Parishioners to Secede from the Society in Said Town, April 5th, 1819H. & W. H. Mann., 1823 - 93 pages |
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