Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707
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Clergyman at Old South Church, Boston. Author of Body of Divinity. Vice-President of Harvard College.
Samuel Willard was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was ordained a Puritan minister in Groton, Massachusetts in 1664, and served there as pastor until 1676. He was pastor of the Third Church in Boston from 1687-1707. Willard strenuously opposed the Salem witchcraft trials, and tried to influence public opinion against them. He served as acting president of Harvard University from 1701, and he published many sermons.
Willard (A.M. 1655) was minister of the Third Church in Boston by 1678.
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