Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707 - Social Networks and Archival Context (original) (raw)

Clergyman at Old South Church, Boston. Author of Body of Divinity. Vice-President of Harvard College.

From the description of Notes for a sermon : [Boston, Massachusetts], [166-? to 169-?]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122480601

Samuel Willard was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was ordained a Puritan minister in Groton, Massachusetts in 1664, and served there as pastor until 1676. He was pastor of the Third Church in Boston from 1687-1707. Willard strenuously opposed the Salem witchcraft trials, and tried to influence public opinion against them. He served as acting president of Harvard University from 1701, and he published many sermons.

From the description of Sermons of Samuel Willard, 1691-1692 (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 697961964

Willard (A.M. 1655) was minister of the Third Church in Boston by 1678.

From the description of Sermons : manuscript, 1694-1695. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612865198

Clergyman and educator.

From the description of Sermons of Samuel Willard, 1687-1695. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014561

From the description of Sermons of Samuel Willard, 1687-1695. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82428659

Archival Resources

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referencedIn Chauncy family. Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
referencedIn Resolutions concerning religion in New England [manuscript], 1704-1706. University of Virginia. Library
creatorOf Harvard College (1636-1780). Harvard College Master of Arts diploma of Samuel Mather, July 3, 1701. Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Willard, Samuel, Rev., 1640-1707. Notes for a sermon : [Boston, Massachusetts], [166-? to 169-?]. Brown University Archives, John Hay Library
creatorOf Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Sermons and notes, 1658-1700. Massachusetts Historical Society
creatorOf Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Sermons : manuscript, 1694-1695. Houghton Library
creatorOf Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Commonplace book of Samuel Willard : manuscript, undated. Houghton Library
creatorOf Stone, Samuel, 1603-1663. Whole body of divinity in a catecheticall way handled by Mr. Samuel Stone, teacher of the church in Hartford, 1697. Massachusetts Historical Society
creatorOf Baxter, Joseph, 1676-1745. Notes on sermons taken by Joseph Baxter, 1689-1690. Massachusetts Historical Society
referencedIn Partridge, John, 1686-1717. Sermon notes, 1705. Gadsden Public Library
creatorOf Adams, Eliphalet, 1677-1753. Notes on sermons delivered in Boston, 1704-1705. Massachusetts Historical Society
creatorOf Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Sermons of Samuel Willard, 1691-1692 Harvard University, Divinity School Library
creatorOf Gay, Frederick Lewis, 1856-1916. Papers, ca. 1690-ca. 1890. Massachusetts Historical Society
creatorOf Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Sermons of Samuel Willard, 1687-1695. Library of Congress
referencedIn Chauncy family. Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf Eliot, John, 1604-1690. Sermon Notes, 1675-1680. Massachusetts Historical Society
creatorOf Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Sermons of Samuel Willard, 1687-1695. Library of Congress
creatorOf Flynt, Josiah, d. 1680. Sermons : manuscript, [16--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Allen, James, 1632-1710. Sermons : manuscript , 1689. Houghton Library
creatorOf Allen, James, 1632-1710. Notes on sermons by Joshua Moodey and others, 1686-1688. Massachusetts Historical Society
referencedIn Woodman, Willard Woodbury, 1865-1944. Genealogical collection, [n.d.]. Maine Historical Society Library
creatorOf Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Commonplace book : manuscript, [16--] Houghton Library
creatorOf Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Notes : on sermons : manuscript, 1681-1682. Houghton Library
creatorOf Hull, John, 1624-1683. Notes on sermons, 1671-1679. Massachusetts Historical Society
referencedIn Denison, William, of Roxbury, Mass. Notes, 1681-1718. New-York Historical Society
creatorOf Fiske, Moses, 1642-1708. Commonplace-book, 1668-1698. Massachusetts Historical Society

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