The First Parish Church is a historic

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(formerly Congregationalist) church at Tremont and Depot Streets in

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. First Parish Church is currently a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

History

The original Duxbury congregation was founded in 1632 by Elder William Brewster as a Christian Separatist church with early members coming from the First Parish Church in Plymouth, the oldest church in New England. In the beginning, the church likely met in congregants' homes until the first meeting house was built near what is today known as Miles Standish Burial Ground. The Duxbury congregation became a parish church of Massachusetts' Congregationalist state church. A schism developed at the turn of the 19th century, when much of the congregation adopted

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along with many of the other state churches in Massachusetts. State churches were officially disaffiliated with the Massachusetts government in 1834. The current church building was constructed in 1840. The building was added to the

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in 1978.

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First parish church in Duxbury MA.JPG, First Parish Church in 2010 First Parish Church marker in Miles Standish Burying ground in Duxbury Massachusetts.JPG, Site of the original First Parish Church meeting house within Myles Standish Burial Ground

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External links

First Parish of Duxbury official website

of the First Parish Church are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at

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