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Item #39604 LETTERS OF FRIENDSHIP TO THOSE CLERGYMEN WHO HAVE LATELY RENOUNCED COMMUNION WITH THE...

LETTERS OF FRIENDSHIP TO THOSE CLERGYMEN WHO HAVE LATELY RENOUNCED COMMUNION WITH THE MINISTERS AND CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN GENERAL, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND RECENT EXAMPLES.

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1780. 134pp. "By Joseph Huntington D.D." written in neat ink beneath the title. Ezra Stiles's copy, with inscription at head of title: "To Revd E. Stiles. Nov. 23 1780." Several learned marginal notes by Stiles, with some text underlined. Stitched and untrimmed. Lacking the final blank..... More

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Item #39600 THE GREAT SIN AND DANGER OF STRIVING WITH GOD. A SERMON PREACHED AT WETHERSFIELD,...

THE GREAT SIN AND DANGER OF STRIVING WITH GOD. A SERMON PREACHED AT WETHERSFIELD, DECEMBER 13TH, 1782. AT THE FUNERAL OR MRS. LYDIA BEADLE, WIFE OF THE LATE WILLIAM BEADLE, AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, WHO WERE ALL MURDERED BY HIS OWN HANDS ON THE MORNING OF THE 11TH INSTANT. . . TO WHICH IS ANNEXED A LETTER, FROM A GENTLEMAN IN WETHERSFIELD TO HIS FRIEND, CONTAINING A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BEADLE, (SO FAR AS IT IS KNOWN) AND THE PARTICULARS OF THE MASSACRE OF HIMSELF AND FAMILY.

Middleborough, (County of Plymouth): Printed and Sold by N. Coverly, 1788. 38, [1- publ. advt], [1 blank] pp. Stitched. Lightly foxed and toned. Very Good. Contemporary ownership signatures of Stephen W. Clark and [more elaborately and frequently] Philip Curtis. Beadle, of Wethersfield, "killed his wife and four children, and then..... More

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Item #39589 THE BEAUTIFUL VICTIM OF THE ELM CITY. BEING A FULL, FAIR, AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF...

THE BEAUTIFUL VICTIM OF THE ELM CITY. BEING A FULL, FAIR, AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF ALL THAT IS KNOWN OF THE TERRIBLE FATE OF THE TRUSTING AND UNFORTUNATE JENNIE E. CRAMER, GIVING ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT LED THE JURY TO HOLD JAMES MALLEY, JR. AS HER MURDERER, AND TO DENOUNCE WALTER E. MALLEY AND BLANCHE DOUGLASS AS AIDERS AND ABETTORS, IN THIS TERRIBLE SOCIAL TRAGEDY.

New York: M.J. Ivers & Co., [1881]. 64pp, stitched. Illustrated pink wrappers. Wrap worn at edges and spine. Illustrations. Clean text. Very Good. The wrapper calls this the "2d edition. Complete." McDade says, "This is a New Haven, Connecticut, case in which Jennie Cramer was found dead, face down in..... More

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Item #39419 THE CHARACTER AND REWARD OF THE FAITHFUL AND WISE MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST: A SERMON,...

THE CHARACTER AND REWARD OF THE FAITHFUL AND WISE MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST: A SERMON, OCCASIONED BY THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF THE REVEREND NATHANAEL HOOKER, PASTOR OF THE FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST IN HARTFORD. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, JUNE 9, 1770, IN THE XXXIIId YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND XIIIth OF HIS MINISTRY. DELIVERED AT HIS MOURNFUL INTERMENT, JUNE 11TH. BY JOSEPH PERRY, A.M. AND PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN EAST-WINDSOR.

Hartford: Printed by Green & Watson, 1770. Small 4to. 24pp, with the original plain rear wrapper. Half title [upper blank margin of half title cut down, no text affected]. Stitched. Except as noted, Very Good. Nathaniel Hooker [1737-1770] was the great-great-grandson of Rev. Thomas Hooker [1586-1647], known as the founder..... More

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