Samuel Hopkins manuscript material : 1 item, 1793

ArchivalResource

Samuel Hopkins manuscript material : 1 item, 1793

ยท To the Rev. Levi Hart, Connecticut minister : 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Nov 1793 : (MISC 0518) : from Newport; begins, "I wrote you lately by Mr. Lester. Nothing new worth relating has taken place since ..."

1 item

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7491622

New York Public Library System, NYPL

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Hart, Levi, 1738-1808

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6086gn5 (person)

Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gq774r (person)

Author and clergyman. From the description of Letter of Samuel Hopkins, 1759. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450325 Samuel Hopkins, American clergyman and theologian, founder of Hopkinsianism. He graduated from Yale in 1741, and afterwards studied with Jonathan Edwards for two years. Afterwards Hopkins settled at Housatonic (later Great Barrington). In 1769, the privation of his congregation and an opposition to his intransigent doctrine led to his dismissal. He then accep...