1730's - The First Great Awakening
A powerful Protestant religious revival swept across the New England colonies and through Georgia starting in the 1730s, later named the First Great Awakening.
Emotionalism, emphasis on individual worship, and skepticism towards religious leadership pumped new life into sects that mirrored these values like Methodism and Baptism. European circuit preachers traveled across the Atlantic, delivering dramatic sermons to crowds larger than populations of colonial cities themselves. Though the revival lasted only a generation, it signaled the end of traditional worship and the rise of evangelical faith.
Mary Franklin (1695–1741) wife of 1st cousin 3x removed of husband of 3rd great-aunt. When Mary Franklin (oldest sister of Benjamin Franklin) was born on September 26, 1695, her father, Josiah, was 38, and her mother, Abiah, was 28. She married Capt. Robert Homes on April 3, 1716, in Boston, Massachusetts. They had four children during their marriage. She died sometime after or around June 16, 1741, in Dukes, Massachusetts, at the age of 45.
William Homes was father of Capt. Robert Homes (a Rev. and ship Capt.), married to Mary Franklin.oldest sister of Benjamin Franklin and daughter of Josiah Francklin and
Abiah Foulger.
When the First Great Awakening spread throughout New England and Georgia during the mid-1700s, Mary Franklin was living in Massachusetts.
OTHER RELATIVES
4 of our family ancestors lived in In the New England colonies or Georgia during the time when the region was overtaken by a momentous Protestant religious revival:
Capt. Robert Homes (1694–1743), 1st cousin 3x removed of husband of 2nd great grand aunt.
Abiah Foulger/Foulger (1667–1752), 2nd great grand aunt.
Rev. William Homes (1663–1746), husband of 2nd great grand aunt of husband of 2nd great grand aunt.
Katharine Craighead (1672–1754), 2nd great grand aunt of husband of 2nd great grand aunt.
During the religious revival, colonists revived their mission to proselytize to both Native Americans and enslaved African Americans. About 1736, Georgia.
Staunch puritans (called Old Lights) who championed ceremony and traditional church hierarchy rejected the revival’s evangelicalism and its emphasis on a personal relationship with God, while those who accepted it were dubbed New Lights.
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