William Jenks papers, 1798-1909 (bulk: 1826-1848)

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William Jenks papers, 1798-1909 (bulk: 1826-1848)

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The personal papers of William Jenks includes his correspondence, outlines of sermons and addresses, and material by or about other members of his family including his father Samuel (1731/2-1801) and his sons Theodore Russell Jenks, Joseph William Jenks and Lemuel P. Jenks. There are records concerning the First Church in Bath and other institutions or benevolent societies in Maine. The material on the Green Street Congregational Church in Boston includes records of marriages which he preformed between 1827 and 1848. The records of three benevolent societies of Boston are particularly noteworthy. The Boston Marine Bible Society supplied Bibles to seamen. The Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor in the 1820s ran Sunday schools for the children of workers, services for seamen on board ships in the harbor as well as ashore and the Penitent Females' Refuge, a home for reformed prostitutes. The Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in the 1820s and 1830s, sent missionaries to small towns in Massachusetts and New Hampshire which lacked the resources to support their own ministers.

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Bent, Samuel Arthur.

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Green Street Church (Boston, Mass.)

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Boston Marine Bible Society.

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Jenks, Theodore Russell, 1802-1853.

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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...

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