This contains a more complete list of the associations and churches than that given by Backus. There is a valuable chapter, "Baptist Communities who differ from the main body of the denomination and who are also distinguished by some peculiarities of their own." Burrage, Henry S. A History of the Baptists in New England. Philadelphia, 1894. Particularly useful in tracing the progress of the denomination in the different states, and in its contribution to the history of religious liberty. Cathcart, William (Editor). The Baptist Encyclopedia: A Dictionary of the Doctrines ... of the Baptist Denomination in all Lands. Philadelphia, 1883. 2 vols. Curtis, Thomas F. The Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years. Boston, 1856. Denison, Frederic. Notes of the Baptists and their Principles in Norwich. Norwich, 1859. This contains the famous Separatist Petition to the King in 1756. Guild, Reuben A. History of Brown University, with Illustrated Documents. Providence, 1867. Hovey, Alvah. A Memoir of the Life and Times of the Reverend Isaac Backus, A. M. Boston, 1858. Newman, Albert H. A History of the Baptist Churches in the United States. New York, 1894. 2. CONGREGATIONALIST A Confession of Faith, Owned and Consented to by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches in the Colony of Connecticut in New England Assembled by Delegates at Saybrook, Sept. 9, 1708. First Edition (first book printed in Connecticut), New London, 1710. Second Edition, New London, 1760, with Heads of Agreement; Edition of Hartford, 1831. [a] A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton and the Neighboring Towns.... In a letter to the Rev'd. Doctor Benjamin Colman of Boston, written by the Rev'd. Mr. Edwards, Minister of Northampton, on Nov. 6, 1736. London, 1737. Autobiography of Lyman Beecher, D. D. New York, 1864. 3vols. Especially valuable for the attitude of the Congregational clergy during the first constitutional reform movement in Connecticut. Bacon, Leonard. The Genesis of the New England Churches. New York, 1874. ----Thirteen Historical Discourses, on completion of Two Hundred Years from the beginning of the First Church, New Haven. New Haven, 1839. Baldwin, Simeon E. Ecclesiastical Constitution of Yale College. In New Haven Historical Society's Papers, vol. iii. Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut: prepared under the direction of the General Association, to commemorate the completion of one hundred and fifty years since its first annual Assembly. New Haven, 1861. See under L. Bacon, the history of David Brainerd. Barrowe, Henry. Answer to Mr. Gifford. ----A Briefe Discoverie of the False Church. Date, 1590. London ed. 1707. ----A True Description of the Word of God, of the Visible Church, 1589. Briggs, Charles Augustus. American Presbyterianism: Its Origin and Early History. New York, 1885.