In the struggle for religious liberty in this country the following letter was submitted to the General Assembly of Connecticut:
“To the Honourable Genl Assembly of ye Colony of Connecticut, to be convened at New Haven on ye second Thursday of October next. The humble Memorial of ye Genl Association of ye Baptist churches, convened at North Kingston, on ye 6 day of September, A. D. 1729, humbly showeth, That ye Honours’ Petitioners having sundry Brethren of their Communion dwelling up and down in your Colony, they therefore do hereby humbly crave ye an Act of Assembly may be passed to free them from paying any taxes to any ministry except their own, and from building any meeting houses except for their own use, humbly hoping your Honours will consider they are utterly unable to maintain their own way of worship and to pay taxes to ye Presbyterians, and yet the gracious act of indulgence together with ye reasonableness of our request will be motive sufficient to move ye Honours to grant ye request of ye Honours’ humble Memorialists. Signed in ye name and by ye order of the Sd Association.”
The petition was signed by four pastors and fourteen laymen.