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Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians.
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Unlike his father, who was a slave-owner, Jonathan Edwards the younger supported abolition of the slave trade and of slavery. His anti-slavery viewpoint was first evidenced in 1773, when he wrote a series of articles entitled “Some Observations upon the Slavery of Negroes” in the Connecticut Journal and the New-Haven Post-Boy (Gamertsfelder ...
Sarah Edwards (January 9, 1710 – October 2, 1758) was an American missionary and the wife of theologian Jonathan Edwards. Her husband was initially drawn to her spiritual openness, direct relationship with God, and periods of spiritual ecstasy.
Burr's maternal grandfather Jonathan Edwards Aaron Burr Jr. was born on February 6, 1756, in Newark , located in what was then the Province of New Jersey . He was the second child of the Reverend Aaron Burr Sr. (1716–1757), a Presbyterian minister and second president of the College of New Jersey , which became Princeton University .
Stoddard was an influential religious leader in colonial New England, [2] and was the grandfather of the prominent theologian Rev. Jonathan Edwards. For 55 years, Stoddard occupied an unparalleled position in the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts. His theology was not widely accepted in Boston, but was popular on the frontier.
The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards. New York University Press. ISBN 9780814723722. Tuttle, George Frederick; Tuttle, George Frederick (1883). The descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from old to New England in 1635. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle & Company.
Jonathan Edwards’ uncle, Joseph Hawley of Northampton, cut his own throat presumably after being “thrown into despondency by Edward’s preaching.” [19] In Longmeadow, where Stephen Williams was “preaching upon death” in his Sabbath morning sermon on June 13, 1735, “Nathaniel Burt 2nd cut his own throat” following the afternoon ...