From The Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire (in three parts), 
compiled from the best authorities, by Eliphalet Merrill and the Late 
Phinehas Merrill, Esq.,
Printed by C. Norris & Co. , Exeter, NH, ©1817, pg 57

Part I - General View- History

1665 - The first persecution of the Anabaptists, found on record, was in 1665.  William 
Turner, Thomas Gould, Edward Drinker, and several others were accused before the 
governor and magistrates of the crime of "gathering themselves into the form of a church, 
in opposition tot he church of Christ established in the colony, and with intermeddling 
with those holy appointments of the Lord Jesus, which  belong only to office trust."  
several of these men were afterwards imprisoned and banished.  In this case, like all 
others, the severity against the sect made new converts to it, and it was therefore thought 
expedient to desist from the persecution.  These were not the first appearances of 
antipedo-baptism in the colony.  Mr. Dustan, the president of the college joined that 
profession, and was on that account expelled from his office.  Mr. Chaney his successor 
believed in the necessity of immersion.  In Mr. Hooker’s time it appeared that the doctrine 
was gaining ground, and he expresses his belief that the converts to it would increase in 
number.

Submitted by T.C. Parziale 5/30/00
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