increased and strengthened this development of a separate Unitarian body,—one among the General Baptists, the other in the great Episcopal Church itself." _B. Herford, Unitarianism in England (Unitarianism: its Origin and History)._ {3165} "It is hard to trace the early history of Unitarianism in New England. The name was seldom used, yet not omitted with any view to concealment; for we have abundant proof that the ministers to whom it belonged preached what they believed clearly and fully. … But a marvellous change had taken place in the last century, at the beginning of which the denial of the Trinity would have seemed no better than blasphemy; while at its close nearly all the clergy of Boston and its vicinity and many others in Massachusetts were known to dissent from the ancestral creed, to have ceased to use Trinitarian doxologies, and to preach what was then known as Arianism, regarding Jesus Christ as the greatest and oldest of created beings, but in no proper sense as God. At the same time, so little stress was laid on the Trinity by its professed believers that, with two or three exceptions, these Arians remained in full church fellowship with those of the orthodox faith. In the territory now within the limits of Boston there were, a century ago, but two professedly Trinitarian ministers, one of them being Dr. Thacher, of the liberal Brattle Square Church, while Dr. Eckley, of the Old South Church, was known to entertain doubts as to the deity of Christ." _A. P. Peabody, Early New England Unitarians (Unitarianism: its Origin and History)._ UNITED BRETHREN (Unitas Fratrum). See BOHEMIA: A. D. 1434-1457, and 1621-1648; also MORAVIAN OR BOHEMIAN BRETHREN. UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS. See TORIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. UNITED IRISHMEN, The Society of. See IRELAND: A. D. 1793-1798. UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN, Formation of the. See SCOTLAND: A. D. 1707. UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Creation of the. See IRELAND: A. D. 1798-1800. UNITED NETHERLANDS, or United Provinces, or United States of the Netherlands. See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1577-1581, 1581-1584, 1584-1585, and after. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, The. See SCOTLAND: A. D. 1843. ----------UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Start-------- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1492-1620. Discovery and exploration of the Atlantic coast. See AMERICA. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1607-1752. First settlement and organization of the thirteen original English colonies.