{"id":3843,"date":"2013-07-11T06:50:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2013-07-11T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:51:09","slug":"chilmarks-early-abels-hill-church-by-sam-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/2013\/07\/chilmarks-early-abels-hill-church-by-sam-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilmark&#8217;s early Abel&#8217;s Hill church by Sam Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl id=\"comment_list\">\n<dt id=\"comment-240\" class=\"comment\"><span class=\"comment_author\">Sam Carroll<\/span> <\/dt>\n<dd class=\"comment\">\n<div class=\"format_text\">\n<p>I have a copy of an old map showing a church at Abel\u2019s Hill, beside  the cemetery.  It wasn\u2019t Methodist, but it predates the middle road  locations.  Experience Mayhew preached there in the early 1700s,  his  father, John Mayhew (number 32 in Banks history) was the first circuit  minister who lived in Quansoo , who became a preacher at Boston\u2019s South  Church and spoke against the King\u2019s Stamp Act, just prior to the  Revolution. His Son, Experience, wrote a detailed ethnology of the  indigenous Wampanoag conversions, which is available in the West Tisbury  Library.  Including Abel, who was his first convert to Christianity.<br \/>\nIn 1694, Matthew Mayhew wrote  \u201cA Brief History of the success of the  Gospel among the Wampanoag of Martha\u2019s Vineyard\u201d in Chilmark. He  mentioned twenty different languages were spoken at the time. And  suggested that the Crown should learn from their example of local  assemblies open to all citizens, Hashawockamuck, Aquinnah, Nobnocket,  for example,  were the tribal centers where all local affairs were  discussed, and many  early Christian conversions took place there and in  private before any standing churches. Many of the founding principles  of our country came from those discussions. Freedom of assembly,  government by the people, regional conferences, were discussed  up-island, at fireside before 1700.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Carroll I have a copy of an old map showing a church at Abel\u2019s Hill, beside the cemetery. It wasn\u2019t Methodist, but it predates the middle road locations. Experience Mayhew preached there in the early 1700s, his father, John Mayhew (number 32 in Banks history) was the first circuit minister who lived in Quansoo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}