Papers II, 1797-1823.

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Papers II, 1797-1823.

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Papers of Congregational clergyman William Jenks include his memoirs with an index to the main events in his life to June 4, 1798, written at the age of 19; most of a letterbook (1797-1803), including family letters to his brother Francis Jenks and others; a series of courtship letters to his future wife, Betsy Russell; and letters to Elisha Clap, John Hubbard Church, Elbridge Gerry and others related to intellectual, religious, and personal interests. Also, a letter to Jenks from Charles Sigourney requesting help from Jenks as librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1823).

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Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814

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Elbridge Thomas Gerry (July 17, 1744 (OS July 6, 1744) – November 23, 1814) was an American politician and diplomat. As a Democratic-Republican he served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from March 1813 until his death in November 1814. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after Gerry. Born into a wealthy merchant family, Gerry vocally opposed British colonial policy in the 1760s and was active in the early stages of organizing the re...

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Clap, Elisha

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Jenks, Betsy Russell.

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Church, John Hubbard, 1772-1840

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John Hubbard Church was born to Stephen and Esther Church on March 17, 1772 in Rutland, Massachusetts. He attended Leicester Adademy before coming to Harvard College, where he received an A.B. in 1797. During his last year of college, Church taught during the winter at a school in Chatham, Massachusetts. Following graduation, he pursued theological studies under Dr. Charles Backus of Somers, Connecticut for a year. After that, he began to preach as a candidate for the ministry at Pe...

Sigourney, Charles, 1778-1854

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Jenks, Francis.

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Jenks, William, 1778-1866

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William Jenks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on November 25, 1778. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1797, an A.M. in 1800 and an S.T.D. in 1842. He also received two degrees from Bowdoin College: an S.T.D. in 1825 and an L.L.D. in 1862. Jenks served as pastor of churches in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Bath, Maine before joining the faculty of Bowdoin College as professor of Oriental and English literature. He later returned to Boston, where he founded a mission for seamen and took...

Jenks family.

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