Sermon papers, 1665-1837.

Baxter, Joseph, 1676-1745

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Clergyman of Medfield, Mass. From the description of Diary, 1717-1721. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70974865 Baxter (1676 Jun. 11-1745 May 2) graduated from Harvard College, 1693 and received his M.A. in 1696. He became the pastor of the Medfield (Mass.) Congregational Church in January 1696 (ordained in 1697 Apr. 21) and served there until his death in 1745. In addition, he also served as an occasional missionary to Indians in Maine and on Nantuck...

Shepard Congregational Society (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Holmes, Abiel, 1676-1745.

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Mather, Increase, 1639-1723

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"Increase Mather, the youngest son of the Reverend Richard Mather of Dorchester, and the father of Cotton Mather, has been described as the 'foremost American Puritan' of his generation. Teacher of the Second Church of Boston for more than fifty years, President of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701, agent for Massachusetts Bay in England to request the return of the Charter, and the author of approximately 175 books, pamphlets, prefaces and printed sermons, Mather was intimately involved in poli...

First Church (Cambridge, Mass.)

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The First Church was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1633, but in 1636 the minister and most of the members removed to Hartford, Conn. In 1829 the First Parish or First Church (Congregational) in Cambridge split into factions of Unitarian and Trinitarian persuasion. The latter, with the pastor Abiel Holmes, separated to form the Shepard Congregational Society, and continued subsequently under the name of the First Church. The Unitarians continued to be known as the First Parish, though cla...