Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707
Variant namesClergyman at Old South Church, Boston. Author of Body of Divinity. Vice-President of Harvard College.
From the description of Notes for a sermon : [Boston, Massachusetts], [166-? to 169-?]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122480601
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.
From the description of Sermons of Samuel Willard, 1691-1692 (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 697961964
Willard (A.M. 1655) was minister of the Third Church in Boston by 1678.
From the description of Sermons : manuscript, 1694-1695. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612865198
Clergyman and educator.
From the description of Sermons of Samuel Willard, 1687-1695. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014561
From the description of Sermons of Samuel Willard, 1687-1695. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82428659
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| associatedWith | Baxter, Joseph, 1676-1745. | person |
| associatedWith | Chauncy family. | family |
| associatedWith | Chauncy family. | family |
| associatedWith | Denison, William, of Roxbury, Mass. | person |
| associatedWith | Eliot, John, 1604-1690. | person |
| associatedWith | Fiske, Moses, 1642-1708. | person |
| associatedWith | Flynt, Josiah, d. 1680. | person |
| associatedWith | Gay, Frederick Lewis, 1856-1916. | person |
| associatedWith | Harvard College (1636-1780) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Harvard University | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Hull, John, 1624-1683. | person |
| associatedWith | Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Partridge, John, 1686-1717. | person |
| associatedWith | Stone, Samuel, 1603-1663. | person |
| associatedWith | Williams, Stephen, 1693-1782, | person |
| associatedWith | Woodman, Willard Woodbury, 1865-1944. | person |
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Birth 1640-01-31
Death 1707-09-12
