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To: FredFlash

Religion exhibit on the LOC website


304 posted on 01/16/2006 6:12:34 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas

Did you click on the links; examine the documents; and did they support the claim made?

Did you examine the document that supports the following claim:

In his diary, Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823), a Federalist Congressman from Massachusetts and Congregational minister, notes that on Sunday, January 3, 1802, John Leland preached a sermon on the text "Behold a greater than Solomon is here. Jef[ferso]n was present." Thomas Jefferson attended this church service in Congress, just two days after issuing the Danbury Baptist letter. Leland, a celebrated Baptist minister, had moved from Orange County, Virginia, and was serving a congregation in Cheshire, Massachusetts, from which he had delivered to Jefferson a gift of a "mammoth cheese," weighing 1235 pounds.

Journal entry, January 3, 1802
Manasseh Cutler
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library (164)


306 posted on 01/16/2006 7:09:54 PM PST by FredFlash
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