Answer to the apologetical preface and Defence of the answer and arguments of the synod, met at Boston in the year 1662
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BEIN Pequot Z96: Imperfect: side-notes bled. 19 cm. Autograph at head of title page: Edw. Rawson. Scant manuscript annotations in text. Manuscript note on page 102: Walker's book. Number 6 of 6 titles bound together in brown, blind tooled leather bind...
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Printed by S. Green and M. Johnson for Hezekiah Vsher of Boston
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts and Massachusetts.
Subject (Name):
Davenport, John, 1597-1670., Davenport, John, 1597-1670, Mather, Increase, 1639-1723., and Boston Synod
Subject (Topic):
Congregational churches, Infant baptism, Congregationalism, and Covenants (Church polity)
Faithful narrative of the surprising work of God in the conversion of many hundred souls in Northampton
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BEIN 1742 Yale Library 1.5.56: Copy presented to Yale college by Dr. Watts and Dr. Guyse, through Benjamin Colman; with manuscript note on fly-leaf and manuscript corrections on the t.p. and in the text by Jonathan Edwards: Cf. Anne S. Pratt, Isaac W...
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Printed for John Oswald, at the Rose and crown, in the Poultry, near Stocks-market
Manuscript current account, signed, detailing financial transactions between the Massachusetts whaler Joseph Sturges and his Native American employee, Jacob Zakry (or Zachary) over a three-year period ending on March 4, 1719. Items charged to Zachary ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts. and Massachusetts
Subject (Name):
Sturges, Joseph. and Zachary, Jacob.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Master and servant, Whaling, and History
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...
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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.)
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
Bound manuscript diary ([275] pages) which begins on March 18, 1879, as Benson leaves Boston for Madagascar and Zanzibar. He arrives in Tamature (Toamasina), Madagascar, in mid-June 1879, spends a month in port, and then two weeks in Zanzibar. After s...
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Charles Benson (1830-1881) was an African American sailor serving as steward on the bark Glide, a merchant ship carrying bales of cotton goods to Madagascar and Zanzibar, and picking up rubber there. For further information on Benson and his diaries s...
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts, Salem., United States., Madagascar, United States, Madagascar., Tanzania, Zanzibar., and Zanzibar
Subject (Name):
Benson, Charles A., 1830-1881., Benson, Margaret Jenny, (d. 1921), and Glide (Bark)
Subject (Topic):
African American sailors, Merchant ships, Sailors, Medical care, Seafaring life, and Commerce
Autograph letters and documents by, addressed to and about Nathan Hale. Box 1 contains five autograph letters by Nathan Hale: autograph letter, signed, to Betsy Christopher, 1775 October 8, from Camp Winter Hill in Boston; autograph letter, signed, to...
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Nathan Hale (1755-1776), graduate of Yale College (Yale 1773), teacher, and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Executed by the British as a spy on September 22, 1776, he is reported to have said, "I only regret that I have...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Great Britain, America., Massachusetts, and United States
Subject (Name):
Bostwick, Elisha, 1748-1834., Christopher, Betsy., Hale family., Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776., Hale, Richard, 1717-1802., Hale, Samuel, 1718-1807., Hallam, Betsy., Hallam, John, 1728-1811., Hancock, John, 1737-1793, Latimer, Robert., Little, William, 1749-1841., Marvin, Elihu, 1752-1798., Saltonstall, Gilbert., Talmadge, Benjamin., Williams, Ebenezer, 1755-1777., and United States. Continental Army
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Pay, allowances, etc, History, Politics and government, Colonies, and Economic aspects
Autograph letters and documents by, addressed to and about Nathan Hale. Box 1 contains five autograph letters by Nathan Hale: autograph letter, signed, to Betsy Christopher, 1775 October 8, from Camp Winter Hill in Boston; autograph letter, signed, to...
Description:
Nathan Hale (1755-1776), graduate of Yale College (Yale 1773), teacher, and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Executed by the British as a spy on September 22, 1776, he is reported to have said, "I only regret that I have...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Great Britain, America., Massachusetts, and United States
Subject (Name):
Bostwick, Elisha, 1748-1834., Christopher, Betsy., Hale family., Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776., Hale, Richard, 1717-1802., Hale, Samuel, 1718-1807., Hallam, Betsy., Hallam, John, 1728-1811., Hancock, John, 1737-1793, Latimer, Robert., Little, William, 1749-1841., Marvin, Elihu, 1752-1798., Saltonstall, Gilbert., Talmadge, Benjamin., Williams, Ebenezer, 1755-1777., and United States. Continental Army
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Pay, allowances, etc, History, Politics and government, Colonies, and Economic aspects
Autograph letters and documents by, addressed to and about Nathan Hale. Box 1 contains five autograph letters by Nathan Hale: autograph letter, signed, to Betsy Christopher, 1775 October 8, from Camp Winter Hill in Boston; autograph letter, signed, to...
Description:
Nathan Hale (1755-1776), graduate of Yale College (Yale 1773), teacher, and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Executed by the British as a spy on September 22, 1776, he is reported to have said, "I only regret that I have...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Great Britain, America., Massachusetts, and United States
Subject (Name):
Bostwick, Elisha, 1748-1834., Christopher, Betsy., Hale family., Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776., Hale, Richard, 1717-1802., Hale, Samuel, 1718-1807., Hallam, Betsy., Hallam, John, 1728-1811., Hancock, John, 1737-1793, Latimer, Robert., Little, William, 1749-1841., Marvin, Elihu, 1752-1798., Saltonstall, Gilbert., Talmadge, Benjamin., Williams, Ebenezer, 1755-1777., and United States. Continental Army
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Pay, allowances, etc, History, Politics and government, Colonies, and Economic aspects
Manuscript volume containing the constitution and minutes of the New Bedford Anti Slavery Society. Includes the signatures of approximately 123 men and women present at the meeting when the Society's constitution was ratified, and copies of minutes of...
Description:
The New Bedford Anti Slavery Society was founded in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1834.
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts, New Bedford., and New Bedford (Mass.)
Subject (Name):
Choules, John Overton, 1801-1856., Congdon, Joseph, 1799-1857., Johnson, Nathan, -1880., Johnson, Richard, 1776-1853., Perry, Jacob., Rotch, William, Jr., 1759-1850., New Bedford Anti Slavery Society., and New Bedford Anti Slavery Society
Subject (Topic):
Abolitionists, African American abolitionists, African American women abolitionists, Antislavery movements, Crime, Criminal courts, Criminal justice, Administration of, Women abolitionists, and Social life and customs
