Saybrook Platform

The colonial legislature took action by calling 12 ministers and four laymen to meet in Saybrook, Connecticut; eight were Yale trustees.

[2] In reference to church order and unity,[1] the assembly adopted the Heads of Agreement, a document effecting a union between Congregationalists and Presbyterians of (old) London.

The Congregational church was now to be led by local ministerial associations and consociations composed of ministers and lay leaders from a specific geographical area.

Similar proposals for more centralized clerical control of local churches were defeated in Massachusetts, where a more liberal theology flourished.

[7][8] As the established church, the terms of the Saybrook Platform were legally enforceable against dissenting Christians, such as Connecticut Baptist Isaac Backus.