Federal Street Church records, 1774-1803.
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Federal-Street Meeting-house (Boston, Mass.)
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"The church in Long Lane," begun in 1729 on the corner of Berry Street and Long Lane, changed its name to the Church of Christ in Federal Street when "Federal Street" was substituted for "Long Lane" by the town to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution in 1788. From the description of Records, 1787-1830. (New England Historic Genealogical Society). WorldCat record id: 56725787 ...
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the aboli...
Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798
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Jeremy Belknap was born in Boston on June 4, 1744. He received an AB from Harvard in 1762 and an AM in 1765. He became the minister of the First Congregational Church of Dover, New Hampshire in 1767, and later served as the minister of the Church in Long Lane, Boston. As a historian, Belknap published the History of New Hampshire and American Biography. His work on American Biography encouraged an interest in Harvard's history, and he explained in a letter two months before his de...
