Drafts of the constitution of the Concord Auxiliary Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, 1813.

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Drafts of the constitution of the Concord Auxiliary Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, 1813.

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Two draft versions of the Society's constitution, one dated 1813, one undated. Both are in the manuscript hand of Ezra Ripley, pastor of the First Parish in Concord. Each draft is followed by several signatures (the dated draft by those of Ripley, James Jones, and Humphrey Barrett, the undated by those of Reuben Farrar, Charles Melven, John Melven, and E. Barrett).

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Auxiliary Society for the Suppression of Intemperance (Concord, Mass.)

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Society formed in Concord, Mass., "to discountenance and suppress the too free use of ardent spirits and its kindred vices, profaneness, gaming, and idleness, and to encourage and promote temperance, industry, the due observation of the sabbath, and general morality." The Society was auxiliary to the Massachusetts society established toward the same ends. From the description of Drafts of the constitution of the Concord Auxiliary Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, 1813. (Co...

Ripley, Ezra, 1751-1841

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Unitarian minister. A.B. Harvard, 1776. Installed as minister of the First Parish in Concord, Mass. in 1778. Remained minister there for 63 years, until his death in 1841. From the description of Sermons, 1783-1837 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 122592368 Sermon delivered by Ripley--Unitarian clergyman, pastor of the First Church in Concord, Mass., step-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson--on Nov. 16, 1828, to commemorate the f...