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William Wadsworth (1595-1675) immigrated from Braintree, Essex Co., England to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later moved to Hartford, Connecticut. He married twice. Descendants lived in the New England states, the midwest and elsewhere.
It began as a trickle in 1792, but by century's end northwestern Connecticut was awash in revival. In 1799 Edward Dorr Griffin wrote that he could stand at his doorstep in Litchfield County and "number fifty or sixty congregations laid down in one field of divine wonders." Griffin was one of the leading ministers whose electrifying preaching triggered the Second Great Awakening--the subject of this award-winning study. A Field of Divine Wonders focuses on the village revivals sparked by Griffin and his fellow New Divinity ministers--the theological heirs of Jonathan Edwards. Edwards died in 1758--long before the rash of revivals in 1798--but he left an enduring legacy that later generations of disciples followed. But it was the third generation of Edwardseans, pastors such as Griffin, Asahel Nettleton, and Bennet Tyler, who personified the theology of revival. For thirty years, they successfully preached, counseled, and defended the New Divinity message of salvation until the mid-1820s when most of the leaders had passed from the scene and New Divinity revivalism had lost its appeal. Nevertheless, there remained a form of piety rooted in Edwards's teaching on "affectionate" religion, which merged with other evangelical traditions and has endured up to our own day. Unlike previous studies focused chiefly on leaders or institutions, or theology or converts, A Field of Divine Wonders integrates the history of ideas with newer approaches in historical research--collective biography, modes of discourse, gender studies, social and quantitative history, and local community studies--to supply the kind of "new religious history" that historians have long called for.
Moulton Babcock Goff, son of Emmett Stull Goff and Sarah Antoinette Carr, was born 1889 in Madison, Wisconsin. He married (1) Agnes Hopkins Davis (d. 1963), daughter of Robert William and Helen Flora Hopkins Davis, 1913 in Madison, Wisc. She died in Los Angeles. He married (2) his first cousin, Cicely Sarah Goff (d. 1978), daughter of Arthur Middleton and Clara Belle Hall Goff, 1966 in Austin, Texas. The progenitor of this family, Richard Goff (b. 1763), was born in New London, Connecticut. He was a Revolutionary War soldier. He married 1782 in Norwich Polly Winchester, daughter of Amariah and Abigail Sawyer Winchester. Family lived in New York. The progenitor of the Davis family was, Dolor Davis, who was probably born in Marden, Kent, England ca. 1593. He married at East Farleigh in 1624 Margery Willard, daughter of Richard and Margery Humphrey Willard of Horsemonden, Kent. Dolor left England for Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Margery and their three children followed him in 1635.