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- Creator:
- Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1722
- Image Count:
- 34
- Abstract:
- Correspondence relating to Jonathan Edwards's mission to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Includes a letter from Edwards to Elisha Williams stating the reasons why Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight should not be made headmistress of a Native American female...
- Description:
- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a theologian and leader of the Great Awakening. He served as minister of the Congregationalist Church at Northampton, Massachusetts from 1726-1750 and became a missionary to the Mahican and Mohawk Indians at Stockbridg...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Massachusetts, Stockbridge, United States, Massachusetts., and Stockbridge (Mass.)
- Subject (Name):
- Bush, Japheth, 1705-1758., Dwight, Abigail Williams Sergeant, 1721-1791., Dwight, Joseph, 1702-1765., Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758., Williams, Elijah, 1732-1815., Williams, Elisha, 1694-1755., and Williams, Ephraim, 1691-1754.
- Subject (Topic):
- Calvinism, Clergy, Dissenters, Religious, Girls' schools, Indians of North America, Education, Missions, Mahican Indians, Missions, American, Mohawk Indians, Off-reservation boarding schools, Stockbridge Indians, Women, Women school principals, and Church history
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Jonathan Edwards correspondence relating to his mission at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1752-1756