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EDWARD PAYSON (1783–1827)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:PAYSON (1783–1827)  , See also:American Congregational preacher, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:July 1783 at Rindge, New See also:Hampshire, where his See also:father, See also:Seth See also:Payson (1758–182o), was pastor of the Congregational See also:Church . His See also:uncle, See also:Phillips Payson (1736–1801), pastor of a church in See also:Chelsea, See also:Massachusetts, was a physicist and astronomer . See also:Edward Payson graduated at Harvard in 1803, was then See also:principal of a school at See also:Portland, See also:Maine, and in 1807 became junior pastor of the Congregational Church at Portland, where he remained, after 1811, as See also:senior pastor, until his See also:death on the 22nd of See also:October 1827 . The most See also:complete collection of his sermons, with a memoir by See also:Asa Cummings originally published in 1828, is the Memoir, Select Thoughts and Sermons of the See also:late Rev . Edward Payson (3 vols., See also:Port-See also:land, 1846; See also:Philadelphia, 1859) . Based on this is the See also:volume, Mementos of Edward Payson (New See also:York, 1873), by the Rev . E . L . Janes of the Methodist Episcopal Church .

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