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In 1801, the Church of the Pilgrimage broke off from the First Parish Church in Plymouth in the Unitarian Controversy. The Congregationalists formed this church, which later became part of the United Church of Christ. On the front of the church is this plaque:
This tablet is inscribed in grateful memory of the Pilgrims and of their successors who at the time of the Unitarian Controversy in 1801 adhered to the belief of the Fathers and on the basis of the original creed and covenant perpetuated at great sacrifice in the Church of the Pilgrimage the Evangelical Faith and Fellowship of the Church of Scrooby Leyden and the Mayflower organized in England in 1606.
“Upon reading of his son’s Christian Baptism, in 1817, Adoniram Judson Sr., of the Church of the Pilgrimage, on the north side of Town Square, became a Baptist and resigned the Congregational pastorate.”
copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices
Church Photo from Giorgio Galeotti, plaque photo by author.
