Introduction

Biography

Dexter gra­du­at­ed from Yale Uni­ver­si­ty (1840) and An­do­ver Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry (1844), and was a lead­ing au­tho­ri­ty on the Pil­grims of Ply­mouth Co­lo­ny.

A mem­ber of the North Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in New Bed­ford, Mas­sa­chu­setts, he com­mut­ed to Bos­ton, where he ed­it­ed The Con­gre­ga­tion­alist ma­ga­zine.

Works

• The Ver­dict of Rea­son (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ni­chols and Noyes, 1865)
• Memoranda, His­to­ri­cal, Chro­no­lo­gi­cal &c., 1870
• Congregationalism (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Moyes, Holmes, 1871)
• Twelve Dis­cours­es
• The True Sto­ry of John Smyth
• A Hand­book of Con­gre­ga­tion­alism
• The Eng­land and Hol­land of the Pil­grims