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Another reference to the "Hammonites" and "Brooksites" will be found in the Winslow Papers, page 392. Henry Alline, the Whitefield of Nova Scotia, was born at Newport, Rhode Island, June 14, 1748. He settled with his parents at Talmouth, N. S., in 1760. He was a preacher of fervid eloquence, which, as in the case of Whitefield, few who came under its influence were able to resist.
In Sheffield and Waterboro the people became divided into three sects, named after their own preachers: Hartites, Brooksites and Hammonites, who were annually inspired by two travelling preachers from Nova Scotia." The sheriff had very little that was good to say of these evangelists, whose methods and doctrines he cordially disliked. The two preachers were in all probability Rev.
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