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Lot Number: 81
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1774 Denouncing the “Intolerable Acts and the Boston Port Bill” Thanksgiving Discourse for the Provincial Congress Political Sermon Held At Boston by John Lathrop, Minister |
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December 15th 1774-Dated Revolutionary War Era, Imprint titled: “THANKSGIVING DISCOURSE,” Intolerable Acts & Boston Port Bill Calamities, A Discourse Preached by John Lathrop, Minister, Printed by D. Kneeland; and Sold by Samuel West, in Queen-Street, Boston, Very Fine. Important Pre Revolutionary War rare Imprint titled: “Being the day recommended By the Provincial Congress, To Be Observed in Thanksgiving to God for Blessings enjoyed; and humiliation on account of public Calamities,” 39 pages, measuring 5.5” x 8.5”, with original self-wrappers, unstitched; some browning and foxing; uncut and mostly unopened, a few front pages loose. A highly charged and important pre-Revolution Political Sermon denouncing the Intolerable Acts, including the Boston Port Bill. This rare Imprint with the usual corrections to the word “Provincial” on the title. References: Evans 13370; Adams, American Independence 121.John Lathrop (1740-1816) was a Congregationalist Minister in Boston, Massachusetts, during the Revolutionary and early Republic periods. Lathrop was born 1740 and served as Minister of the Second Church, Boston from 1768-1816. In 1776, during the British occupation of Boston, the Second Congregationalist Church was burnt for firewood by British soldiers. Lathrop was considered an American Patriot. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1790, and a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1813. *Read the Entire Text at: https://wallbuilders.com/sermon-thanksgiving-1774/ John Lathrop, also spelled Lothrop, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He graduated from Princeton in 1763 and began working as an assistant teacher with the Rev. Dr. Eleazar Wheelock of Lebanon, Connecticut, at Moor’s Indian Charity School. He studied theology under Dr. Wheelock (who later founded Dartmouth College) and became licensed to preach in 1767, ministering among the Indians. In 1768, he became the preacher of the Second Church of Boston, but as Boston was central in the rising tensions and violence with the British leading up to the American War for Independence, he relocated to Providence, Rhode Island. When the Founding Fathers declared independence from Britain in 1776, Lathrop returned to Boston. When Dr. Pemberton of New Brick Church was taken ill, Lathrop was asked to become the assistant to the pastor. When Pemberton passed away a year later, Lathrop became pastor of New Brick Church but also retained the pastorate of Second Church, merging it into New Brick in 1779. Lathrop remained pastor until his death from lung fever in 1816. He had served as President of the Massachusetts Bible Society and the Society of Propagating the Gospel in North America, and he was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Antiquarian Society. Numerous of his sermons were published, including the following one delivered on December 15, 1774. John Lathrop also previously spoke to the 1770 “Boston Massacre” issue in his public Discourse and in his historic imprint titled: “Innocent blood crying to God from the streets of Boston. That being a Sermon occasioned by the horrid murder of Messieurs Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Crispus Attucks, with Patrick Carr, since dead, and Christopher Monk, judged irrecoverable, and several other badly wounded, by a party of troops under the command of Captain Preston: on the fifth of March, 1770. And he preached the Lord's-day following. Boston, Re-printed and sold by Edes and Gill, Opposite the New Court-House in Queen-Street, 1771.” |
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Lot Number: 81
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