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S01:E09
For words spoken to a neighbor in 1777, the Rev. Jabez Colver of Wantage was convicted of sedition — for warning that if America won the Revolution, “the Presbyterians will pull down all other Persuasions.”
This episode reconstructs the courtroom where he said it: who the judges, the prosecutor, and the grand-jury foreman actually were, and why a Congregationalist feared the Presbyterians in particular. The trail runs from the English Civil War and the ghost of Oliver Cromwell to the very structure of church government — and to a fear with a surprisingly long reach.
Some of it is proven, some of it is a good guess, and the essay tells you which is which.
Read the illustrated version, with the original 1777 indictment and every source: https://history.collver.biz/pull-down-all-other-persuasions/