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SYLVESTER See also: American Unitarian See also: clergy-See also: man and author, was See also: born in Westhampton, Massachusetts, on the 23rd of See also: July 1813
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He See also: bore the same name as his See also: father and grandfather; the former (1789–1860) made an especial study of See also: local See also: history of the towns of the See also: Connecticut valley, and wrote a History of Hadley (1863)
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The son lived in Northampton after his tenth See also: year, was converted in a revival there in x826, graduated from Yale in 1836, and taught in 1836 at
1 Other forms make him a Danite, and consider the passage in See also: Genesis (xlix
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17) a prophecy of the traitor
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Templeton, Mass., where he first met Unitarians and soon found the solution of his theological difficulties in their views
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He entered the Harvard divinity school, from which he graduated in 1840
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In the same year he was ordained pastor of the Unitarian See also: church of
See also: Augusta, Maine, where he died on the 26th of See also: January 1853
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His widest reputation was as the author of See also: Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal,including Sketches of a place not before described, called See also: Mons Christi (1845; revised 1851), written to exhibit the errors of Calvinistic and all trinitarian See also: theology, and the evils of war, intemperance, capital punishment, the prison See also: system of the See also: time, and the See also: national treatment of the See also: Indians
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This See also: story, published anonymously, attracted much See also: attention by its true descriptions of New See also: England See also: life and scenery as well as by its author's earnest purpose
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See also: Richard Edney and the Governor's See also: Family (185o) is in much the same vein as Margaret
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A poem entitled See also: Philo, an Evangeliad (185o) is a versified defence of See also: Unitarianism
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He published, besides, The Church, in a Series of Discourses (1854)
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As a preacher and pastor he urged the desirability of infantSee also: baptism
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He lectured frequently on See also: international See also: peace and opposed See also: slavery
.
See See also: Arethusa See also: Hall, Life and Character of the Rev
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Sylvester
See also: Judd (See also: Boston, 1857) published anonymously
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