RT Article T1 Ebenezer Devotion: Religion and Society in Revolutinary Connecticut JF Church history VO 45 IS 3 SP 293 OP 307 A1 Noll, Mark A. 1946- LA English PB Cambridge University Press YR 1976 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1640698612 AB Ebenezer Devotion was born into the family of a Congregational minister in Suffield, Connecticut (then Massachusetts), on May 8, 1714, graduated from Yale College in 1732, and on October 22, 1735 was installed as the first pastor of the Third Ecclesiastical Society in Windham (later Scotland), Connecticut.1 His active ministry began about the time that Jonathan Edwards' parishioners in Northampton were first sensing that all was not right with their souls, and five short years before Whitefield and the great revival would sweep through New England. Ebenezer Devotion died on July 16, 1771 as another consuming excitement, this one political, took shape in America. DO 10.2307/3164264