Library Company in Concord records, 1784-1789.

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Library Company in Concord records, 1784-1789.

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Volume includes constitution (in the ms. hand of Ezra Ripley) and records of subscribers and their donations in cash and books for the collection.

1 v. ; 21 cm.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 7374982

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Library Company in Concord (Concord, Mass.)

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Subscription library in Concord, Mass., formed Feb. 23, 1784. Members included John Cuming, Jonathan Fay, Elnathan Jones, Thomas Whiting, Reuben Brown, Ephraim Jones, Joseph Lee, Emerson Cogswell, Ezra Ripley, Elisha Jones, Ammi White, Joseph Hunt, John White, Peter Wheeler, George Minott, Joseph Hosmer, Duncan Ingraham, and others. Apparently not an immediate predecessor of the Charitable Library Society in Concord. From the description of Library Company in Concord records, 1784-17...

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...