Wall and the Garden : Selected Massachusetts Election Sermons, 1670-1775.

The election day sermon in colonial New England was an annual, formal address by a minister of the gospel to the newly assembled legislature of the colony. The tradition began in the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1634, and it continued, in Boston, for 250 y.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plumstead, A. W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1968.
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Summary:The election day sermon in colonial New England was an annual, formal address by a minister of the gospel to the newly assembled legislature of the colony. The tradition began in the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1634, and it continued, in Boston, for 250 y.
Physical Description:1 online resource (399 pages)
ISBN:9780816664078
0816664072
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.