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Jonathan Edwards collection, 1696-1972, 1726-1758

Title: Jonathan Edwards collection 1696-1972 1726-1758

The collection consists of writings, correspondence, documents, printed materials, photographs, and artifacts documenting the lives and work of Jonathan Edwards and his family. Jonathan Edwards' papers contain the great majority of his surviving manuscripts. These include over one thousand sermons; private theological and philosophical notebooks, including the nine volume "Miscellanies" and four volume "Notes on the Scripture;" Edwards'interleaved Bible. In addition, there is a box of Jonathan Edwards' correspondence; principal correspondents include Joseph Bellamy and Thomas Foxcroft. Other Edwards family papers include several of Timothy Edwards's sermon notebooks; correspondence belonging to Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801), Jonathan Walter Edwards, and Hannah Edwards Wetmore (principal correspondents are Calvin Chapin, Moses Tryon, Joseph Bellamy, Lucy Wetmore Whittelsey and Chauncey Whittelsey); printed material (chiefly numerous family Bibles) and a broadside Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington dated October 1789; photographs of Edwards family members; and papers relating to the history of the collection.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 38; Other Storage Formats: oversize, microfilm; Linear Feet: 18.0

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.edwards View

Strong, Cyprian, 1743-1811. Papers, 1764-1816.

Title: Papers, 1764-1816.

The collection contains a few sermons and several lengthy pieces of correspondence. There is a sermon preached in 1791 discussing "Looking unto Jesus ..." and an 1806 sermon preached at New Haven, Conn., concerning the ten commandments. An abstract of an 1816 ordination sermon and address given by Dr. [Calvin?] Chapin in Chatham, Conn., is also included in the collection. The correspondence consists of lengthy theological disputations exchanged between Strong and Samuel Hart (1738-1813) (who writes his name as Samuel Heart), the first clerk and treasurer of the Second Congregational Church in Berlin, Conn., and Jeremiah Day (1737-1806), a minister in New Preston, Conn. These eight epistles, dated 1794 to 1797, discuss the "seed of Abraham," and origins of evil and sin. In addition, there is a 1764 notebook containing extracts from theological journals and musical compositions without lyrics.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191308989 View

Chapin, Edward, 1799-1868. Papers, 1815-1850.

Title: Papers, 1815-1850.

Correspondence, chiefly from Chapin's father, Calvin Chapin, of Rocky Hill, Conn., to Edward as a student at Yale (1815-1821) and as a lawyer (1835-1850), and from his sisters, Jerusha Chapin and Eliza (Cha;in) Robbins, sent from Rocky Hill and New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70970799 View

U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Title: U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Consists of individual items acquiredseparately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety ofsources, relating to the United States. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 551 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1392 View

General Association of Connecticut. Records, 1741-1865.

Title: Records, 1741-1865.

Minutes, reports, correspondence and financial records of the General Association and of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, auxiliary to the American Home Missionary Society; includes correspondence and records of Calvin Chapin, Jonathan Edwards, Abel Flint, Thomas Robbins and Benjamin Trumbull.

ArchivalResource: 16 boxes (2248 items) ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40439137 View