Story, Isaac:

A SERMON, PREACHED AUGUST THE 15TH, 1798, AT HAMILTON, AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. DANIEL STORY, TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE CHURCH IN MARIETTA, AND ITS VICINITY, IN THE TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES, NORTH-WEST OF THE RIVER OHIO.

Salem: Thomas C. Cushing, 1798. 43pp, lacking the half title. Scattered light foxing, disbound with some loosening. Good+.

This pamphlet "also contains [Manassah] Cutler's charge to the good doctor about to become Ohio's pioneer preacher" [Eberstadt], and "the Proceedings of the Council called to ordain Dr. Story" [Thompson]. Indian Mounds are described in detail, and their purpose discussed. "Pages 34-36, are principally devoted to the Antiquities of Marietta" [Evans].
Daniel Story [1756-1804], uncle of Justice Joseph Story and brother of the author, was "the earliest Protestant preacher of the gospel in the territory northwest of the Ohio, except the Moravian missionaries, was a native of Boston, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1780. The directors and agents of the Ohio Company having passed a resolution in 1788, for the support of the gospel and the teaching of youth, Rev. Manasseh Cutler, one of the company's directors, in the course of that year engaged Mr. Story, then preaching at Worcester, to go to the West as a chaplain to the new settlement at Marietta. In the spring of 1789 he commenced his ministerial labors as an evangelist, visiting the settlements in rotation. During the Indian war from 1791 to 1795 he preached, during most of the time, in the northwest block-house of Campus Martius...
"When the war was over Mr. Story preached at the different settlements; but as there were no roads, he made these pastoral visits by water, in a log canoe, propelled by stout arms and willing hearts. In 1796 he established a Congregational church, composed of persons residing at Marietta, Belpre, Waterford and Vienna, in Virginia. Mr. Story died December 30, 1804, at the age of 49 years. He was a remarkable man, and peculiarly fitted for the station he held." [Howe, Henry: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO, VOL.II, Columbus, OH: 1891, p.505.] See, also, Summers, HISTORY OF MARIETTA, page 202 [1903].
FIRST EDITION. 136 Eberstadt 525. Thomson 1112. Evans 34609. ESTC W3221. Brinley Sale 4573. Item #38709

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