Charles Chauncy was an Anglo-American Congregational clergyman, educator, and secondarily, a physician who served as the second president of Harvard College from 1654 to 1672.
A wall memorial erected in St Mary's Church, Ware, England by Charles Chauncy's direct descendant in 1907
The Half-Way Covenant was a form of partial church membership adopted by the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s. The Puritan-controlled Congregational churches required evide
Charles Chauncy, clergyman and president of Harvard from 1654 to 1672, was an outspoken opponent of the Half-Way Covenant.
Increase Mather initially opposed the Half-Way Covenant but was persuaded to support it.
The Puritan by Augustus Saint Gaudens Springfield, Massachusetts DSC02513