Jonathan Edwards collection 1696-1972 1726-1758

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Jonathan Edwards collection 1696-1972 1726-1758

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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.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349134

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801

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Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (1745-1801), Congregational minister and theologian, was pastor of the White Haven Church in New Haven, Connecticut from 1769 to 1795; pastor at Colebrook, Connecticut from 1796 to 1799; and president of Union College, Schenectady from 1799 until his death in August of 1801. From the description of Letter : New Haven, to an unidentified recipient, 1797 Dec 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702179680 ...

Edwards family.

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Tryon, Moses.

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Edwards, Jonathan Walter.

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Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769

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Epithet: of Cristall British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000215.0x000031 Thomas Foxcroft received his A. B. from Harvard in 1714, and was a minister at the First Church in Boston, Mass. From the description of Manuscript exercises, ca. 1714. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072566 Thomas Foxcroft (1696/7-1769), minister of the First Church of Boston, was born on February 26, 1696/7. ...

Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758

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Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian. He was president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) from February 1758 to his death, one month later. From the description of Jonathan Edwards family collection, 1723-1798. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 276567983 American theologian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Stockbridge, to The Reverend Joseph Bellamy, 17...

Edwards family.

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Wetmore, Hannah Edwards, 1713-1773.

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Chapin, Calvin, 1763-1851

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Edwards, Timothy, 1669-1758

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Born in Hartford, Conn.; graduated from Harvard in 1691; first pastor of East Windsor, Conn. From the description of Heads of sermons, 1716-1717. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 57065449 ...

Bellamy, Joseph, 1719-1790

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Theologian. From the description of Papers of Joseph Bellamy, 1752-1785. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067964 American congregational clergyman and theologian From the guide to the Joseph Bellamy letter to Reverend Samuel Hopkins, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Clergyman, pastor of the church in Bethlehem, Conn. From the description of Joseph Bellamy sermon, 18th century. (Litchfield Historical S...

Whittelsey, Lucy Wetmore, 1749-1826.

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Whittelsey, Chauncey, 1746-1812.

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Eighteenth-century Connecticut businessman and Continental Army purchasing agent. From the description of Chauncey Whittelsey papers, 1707-1852, bulk 1731-1811. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 43444230 ...

Tryon, Moses.

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