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Documents Relating To The Ursuline Convent In Charlestown, George T. Curtis, Theodore Lyman, Charles G. Loring

Special Collections Miscellanea

An 1842 reprint containing two reports detailing the events surrounding the 1834 mob destruction of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, MA. The first report discusses the public responsibility and duty of the State to protect its citizens and their property, regardless of social or religious affiliation, from unjust actions. The second report, produced by a select committee of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, discusses the merits of a petition for the Commonwealth to indemnify the Sisters of the Ursuline Order for their loss. Boston: Reprinted by Samuel N. Dickinson, 1842.

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Letter From George Sibley To William Russell, June 1, 1836, George Champlin Sibley

George Champlin Sibley Papers

Transcript of Letter from George Sibley to William Russell, June 1, 1836. Sibley discusses, at length, the need for religion in education; his own faith

Letter From William Russell To George Sibley, May 27, 1836, William Russell

George Champlin Sibley Papers

Transcript of Letter from William Russell to George Sibley, May 27, 1836. Russell discusses Thoughts on education of girls; Russell's opposition to religion.

Letter From George Sibley To William Russell, October 24, 1834, George Champlin Sibley

George Champlin Sibley Papers

Transcript of Letter from George Sibley to William Russell, October 24, 1834. Sibley discusses Russell's opposition to religion; the importance of Sunday School and religion

A Discourse Delivered In The Baptist Meeting-House In Parkman, September 12, 1832, Thomas B. Ripley

Maine History Documents

Full title: A Discourse Delivered in the Baptist Meeting-House in Parkman, September 12, 1832, before the Penobscot Association, by T. B. Ripley, Pastor of the Baptist Church in Bangor, [Maine].

A Sermon Preached At North Yarmouth, February 16, 1825: At The Ordination Of The Rev. George D. Boardman, As A Missionary To The Heathen, Jeremiah Chaplin

Maine History Documents

No abstract provided.

A Sermon, Delivered In The Chapel Of Waterville College, April 3d, 1825, Stephen Chapin

Maine History Documents

Full title: A sermon, delivered in the chapel of Waterville College, April 3d, 1825 : on account of the death of Mr. Obed Wilson, son of the Rev. Obed Wilson of Bingham.

Das Befreyte Deutschland, Caroline Pichler

Drama and Film

No abstract provided.

Sermon Delivered November 7, 1821, At The Ordination Of The Rev. John A. Douglass, Asa Cummings

Maine History Documents

The text of a sermon delivered November 7, 1821, at the ordination of the Reverend John A. Douglass to the pastoral care of the Congregational Church in Waterford, by Asa Cummings, Pastor of the First Church in North Yarmouth.

The Conversion Of Mariners Will Enlarge The Praises Of Zion, Stephen Chapin

Maine History Documents

Full title: The conversion of mariners will enlarge the praises of Zion : a sermon addressed to mariners, North-Yarmouth, State of Maine, March 4th, 1821 by Stephen Chapin, Pastor of the Baptist Church in Said Town.

The Works Of God, An Important Study: A Sermon Delivered June Twenty-Six, 1811, Asa Burton

Maine History Documents

Full title: The works of God, an important study : a sermon, delivered June twenty-six, 1811, at the ordination of the Rev. Benjamin White, to the pastoral care of the First Church of Christ in Wells (District of Maine).

A Sermon Delivered At Penobscot, District Of Maine, November 22, 1809, Kiah Bailey

Maine History Documents

A sermon delivered at Penobscot, district of Maine : November 22, 1809 ; at the ordination of the Rev. Philip Spaulding, over the congregational church and society in the place, by Kiah Bailey, Congregational Minister in New-Castle.

Remarkable Occurrences Lately Discovered Among The People Called Shakers;: Of A Treasonous And Barbarous Nature, Or Shakerism Developed, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

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Fashionable Amusements Inconsistent With The Design And Spirit Of The Gospel, Kiah Bayley

Maine History Documents

Full title: Fashionable amusements inconsistent with the design and spirit of the Gospel, contrary to the express commands of God, and in many respects productive of evil : a discourse delivered February 5, 1804 / by Kiah Bayley, pastor of the church in New-Castle, (Maine.)

Two Sermons Delivered In Wiscasset, (Pownalborough) On The 9th Of May, 1798, Alden Bradford

Maine History Documents

Full title: Two Sermons Delivered in Wiscasset, (Pownalborough) on the 9th of May, 1798, which the President of the United States had Previously Appointed to be Religiously Observed as a Day of Humiliation and Prayer throughout the Union.

Funeral Discourse Delivered At Portland May 31st, 1795, Being The Lord's Day After The Funeral Of The Rev. Thomas Smith, Samuel Deane

Maine History Documents

Full title: The Death of an agent Servant of God, considered and improved, in a Funeral Discourse delivered at Portland, May 31st, 1795, being the Lord's Day After the Funeral of the Rev. Thomas Smith, Senior Pastor of the First Church in Portland, who departed this life, May 23, in the 94th Year of His Age, by Samuel Deane, D.D., surviving pastor of said church.

Historical Collections Of The Indians In New England., Daniel Gookin

Special Collections (Miscellaneous)

An account of the Indians of New England by Daniel Gookin, a magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Published in 1792.