Peter Starr papers 1758-1829

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Peter Starr papers 1758-1829

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0955

Sermons of Peter Starr, together with the sermons of his predecessor in Kent (now Warren), Connecticut, Sylvanus Osborn, and of two relatives by marriage, John Keep and John Stevens. Three-fourths of the papers are by Peter Starr. During the Revolutionary War Starr shifted his loyalty, and the sermons provide biblical justification on both sides. John Keep was a chaplain during the war and a number of his camp sermons are in the collection.

8 linear feet (21 boxes)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350938

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Osborn, Sylvanus, 1733-1771.

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Keep, John, 1749-1784

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Starr, Peter, 1744-1829

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PETER STARR (1744-1829) Peter Starr was born in September, 1744, the youngest child of Samuel and Abigail (Dibble) Starr, of Danbury, Connecticut, and grandson of Captain Josiah and Rebekah Starr, also of Danbury. His father died soon after his birth, and his mother married Joseph Waller of New Milford (now Brookfield), Connecticut, in 1748. In 1764, Peter Starr graduated from Yale. He taught school for three and a half years and studied theology with the Rev...

Stevens, John, 1750-1792.

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