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(MASSACHUSETTS.) "Great Awakening" manuscript journal.
THE HEIRS OF THE PURITANS (MASSACHUSETTS.) "Great Awakening" manuscript journal. 86 pages. Autograph manuscript, bound loosely into an apparently earlier leather cover; lacks pages 1 to 5. Massachusetts and Maine, May to August 1741
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Notes: Detailed notes by an unidentified author on twenty different sermons given by numerous clergymen during the height of the Great Awakening in 1741. Nine of the sermons are by the Rev. Joseph Emerson (1700-1767) of Malden, Mass., who famously "prayed every night that none of his descendants might ever be rich," best known as great-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was an important force in the Great Awakening as an itinerant preacher (Goen, Revivalism and Separatism, 12). Other sermons are by Nathaniel Appleton (1693-1784), William Williams (1688-1760), John Rogers (1692-1773), Samuel Chandler (1713-1775), Joseph Sewall (1688-1769), John Adams (1704-1740), and John Webb (1687-1750). Appleton, Sewell, and Webb were associated with the Great Awakening during this period as well (Gaustad, 60). These sermons were mostly given in Boston, Cambridge, and Malden, Massachusetts, with others recorded on a trip to York, Maine.
a valuable document of the first great awakening as it played out in congregationalist new england, in the generation before the american revolution. -
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