Title devised by cataloger.

In English.

Manuscript volume, signed, created before 1890 by Henry Martyn Dexter to which 23 miscellaneous original manuscripts dating between 1619 and 1848 are adhered.

Dexter’s table of contents and manuscript notes identify the adhered documents as: an anonymous ms. written on the flyleaves of Sprint’s Cassander Anglicanus, 1618; an ancient copy of Gov. Bradford’s letter to his wife’s sister Mary Carpenter, 19 Aug. 1646; Money receipt from Rev. Samuel Whiting of Lynn; acknowledgment by Josiah Winslow and Thomas Hinckley, commissioners, of liquidated debt due from Plymouth Colony to Massachusetts Colony; Forms of ordaining deacons, and celebrating matrimony; Account of ordination of Rev. Samuel Jones at Philadelphia; Inventory of estate of Ephraim Morton; copy of the Sherman Document, etc.; and fragment of result of council and James Sherman’s confession.

Also present are: Sermon preached in New London, Conn., 29 Mar. 1709 at the Colony East because of the fall of Deerfield, etc., presumably by the Rev. Eliphalet Adams; Letter from Rev. James Keith to Rev. Samuel Danforth about Wise’s books; Letter of Rev. Samuel Fiske to Com. of 1st Parish Salem, Mass.; Second letter of Rev. Mr. Fiske to same parties; Receipt of Rev. Phillips Payson, of Walpole, Mass.; fragment of a journal, 1742; Minutes of the ordination of Rev. Samuel Jones (Baptist), Philadelphia; his own notes of his discourses preached by Dr. Joseph Bellamy; his own copy of a letter from Dr. Bellamy to Rev. Mr. Beckwith of Morris; skeletal plan of sermon preached by Rev. Edward Beecher; notes from which Dr. Lyman Beecher preached on Regeneration; extracts from the Church Records of Plymouth, Mass.; extracts from the Church Records of Grafton, Mass.; and seven leaves from an old Genevan Bible.

Clergy > New England.

Regeneration (Theology) > Sermons.

Sermons, American > New England.

Massachusetts > Religion.

New England > Religion.

Estate inventories.

Sermons.