Tacy COOPER

General Notes

grandmother of Mary CLARKE, who married older brother of Joseph (1706-1767), William CHAMPLIN

together with husband Samuel HUBBARD, the founder of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church in the U.S.

b. England
in Dorchester, MA 9 Jun 1634
m. Windsor, CT 4 Jan 1636 to Samuel HUBBARD

Tacy Cooper (1608-1691) was born in England and was recorded as being at Dorchester, Massachusetts on June 9, 1634 but had removed to Windsor, Connecticut before 1636 as she and Samuel Hubbard were married there on January 4, 1636.

Seventh Day Baptists date their origin with the mid-17th century separatist movement in England. With the renewed emphasis on the Scriptures for Free Church doctrine and practice, men such as James Ockford, William Saller, Peter Chamberlain, Francis Bampfield, Edward and Joseph Stennett concluded that the keeping of the seventh day Sabbath was an inescapable requirement of biblical Christianity. Some maintained membership within the Baptist fellowship and simply added the private Sabbath observance to their other shared convictions. As the power of the state was used to enforce conformity to a common day of worship, separation became necessary. The first separate church of record was the Mill Yard church founded about 1650 in London.

The study of the Scriptures in America brought Samuel and Tacy Hubbard to the Baptist principle of believer’s baptism in 1647, and membership in the First Baptist Church of Newport, Rhode Island. Beginning in 1665, their family and several others became convinced of the seventh day Sabbath and joined in fellowship with Stephen Mumford and his wife who had held Sabbath convictions while members of a Baptist church in Tewksbury, England. When two couples gave up their Sabbath convictions, the others found it difficult to share communion with them within First Baptist. Thus five members joined with the Mumfords in a covenant relationship, establishing the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America in December, 1671. Even after this seperation, close fellowship with other Baptists remained.

for more, see:
http://www.seventhdaybaptist.org/

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