Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695.

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Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695.

The sermons consist of three bound volumes of holograph sermons by Charles Chauncy, one of them also carrying sermons by Israel Chauncy. A fourth bound volume contains holograph outlines of sermons delivered between 1690 and 1695 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a variety of ministers, including Nathaniel Gookin, Cotton Mather, William Brattle, John Emerson, Jonathan Mitchel, Jonathan Pierpont, and Samuel Willard. The recorder of these sermons is thought to be Isaac Chauncey, Harvard class of 1693, the only member of the Chauncy family in Cambridge during the years the sermons were recorded. A holograph sermon in sewn paper wrappers is by Israel Chauncy, given on the occasion of the death of Zachary Brinsmade of Stratford in August, 1667. The sermons are accompanied by two folio sheets recording the inventory of the library of Nathaniel Chauncy, a holograph list of 160 books in short-title form, possibly created when Israel Chauncy assumed guardianship of his nephew; and a bound commonplace book kept by Elnathan Chauncy (Harvard Class of 1661), begun in his senior year at Harvard.

5 v. + 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

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Emerson, John, 1670-1732.

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Mitchel, Jonathan, 1624-1668

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Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707

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Clergyman at Old South Church, Boston. Author of Body of Divinity. Vice-President of Harvard College. From the description of Notes for a sermon : [Boston, Massachusetts], [166-? to 169-?]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122480601 Samuel Willard was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was ordained a Puritan minister in Groton, Massachusetts in 1664, and served there as pastor until 1676. He was pastor of the Third Church in Boston from 1687-1707. Willard strenuously ...

Chauncey family.

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Chauncey, Isaac, 1670-1745

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Chauncy family.

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Charles Chauncy, non-conformist minister originally from England, second Harvard president, and father of Isaac, Ichabod, Barnabas, Nathaniel, Elnathan, and Israel Chauncy. Israel Chauncy was a minister in Bridgeport (then Stratford), Connecticut. When his brother Nathaniel died, Israel agreed to raise his nephew Nathaniel in exchange for the use of books from their father's library which had passed to his brother. Israel Chauncy was one of the founders of Yale College, ...

Harvard College (1636-1780)

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Samuel Mather (1677-1746) was a member of a prominent Connecticut family. He was born in Branford, Connecticut in 1677; his parents were the Reverend Samuel and Hannah (Treat) Mather. When Samuel was four, his family moved to Windsor, Connecticut. He attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1698 and an A.M. in 1701. He began studying medicine in 1698 and by 1702 he was admitted "to be a Practitioner of Physick and Chyrurgy." He was quickly successful, and in 1710 was appointed a surgeon to...

Chauncy, Elnathan, d. 1684.

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Pierpont, Jonathan, 1665-1709.

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Brinsmade, Zachary, d. 1667.

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Gookin, Nathaniel, 1687-1734

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Brattle, William, 1662-1717

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Standard text at Harvard until the 1770s. From the description of Compendium logicae secundum principia D. Renati Des:cartes catechisticeĢ propositum / per Dom. Brattle, in usum pupillorum ; A compendium of logick according to the modern phylosophers extracted from Le-grand and others their systems / by Mr. Brattle, in usum pupillorum : manuscript, 1707. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612843242 Brattle (A. B. 1680) was a Boston minister. From the descr...

Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672

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Charles Chauncy was the second President of Harvard College; he served from 1654 to 1672. From the description of Walking stick presumably used by Charles Chauncy, ca. 1600-1672? (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77066142 ...

Chauncy, Nathaniel, approximately 1639-1685

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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728

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Mather was an American Puritan clergyman and writer. Mather attended Harvard (A.B. 1678, M.A. 1681) and served as minister at the Second Church in Boston from 1685 until his death. His advice was sought during the Salem witch trials. During his lifetime Mather wrote more than 450 books. ...

Chauncy, Israel, 1644-1703

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