Series IV: Edwards Family Writings Jonathan Edwards collection
GEN MSS 151
Series IV: Edwards Family Writings, 1704-1904
0.6 linear feet (2 boxes)
Series IV, Edwards Family Writings, is arranged alphabetically by author and then by title. Works of
unidentified authors are arranged chronologically at the end of the series.
Container Description Date
Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801
b. 24, f. 1354 Communion meditations n.d.
b. 24, f. 1355 Confession of faith 1763 Sep 17
b. 24, f. 1356 Confession of faith, with notes on the White Haven church n.d.
b. 24, f. 1357 Diary 1764 May-Dec
b. 24, f. 1358 "Dissertation upon Virtue" n.d.
b. 24, f. 1359 "Observations & Rules for Conduct in private life" n.d.
b. 24, f. 1360 Sermon on John 12:21 n.d.
b. 24, f. 1361 Edwards, Jonathan, 1841-1886: journal 1850-55
Edwards, Timothy, 1669-1758
Account book (digitized photocopy), 1715-50
Account book, 1715-50 [2 of 2 folders]
Photocopy acquired by library in Aug 1965, and discarded in 2021 following
addition of the original account book to the collection.
n.d.
b. 24, f. 1362 Account book
Volume, bound in parchment, with label pasted to cover: "The Property of
John D. Stoughton of East Windsor Hill, Ct."
Purchased from Carol Birden on the Library Associates Endowment Fund,
2010.
According to an account received with the volume, the volume was
purchased from a Stoughton family estate sale in at the Clearing House
Auction Gallery in Wethersfield, Connectictut, September 20, 1963, by a
descendant of the Stoughton family, Hildred Sperry Raymond. Raymond's
daughter Carol Birden sold it to Yale in 2010.
A photocopy of this account book, acquired in 1965, previously occupied
two folders numbered 1362 and 1363. Following acquisition of the original
volume, the photocopy was carefully checked against the original to ensure
no loss of information, and then discarded. The original was then housed in
folder 1362. Folder 1363 no longer exists.
circa 1715-1750
b. 24, f. 1364 Diary and account book
Account book, 1712-23
1711-24
b. 24, f. 1365 Sermon notebook 1704-45[?]
b. 24, f. 1366 Sermon notebook 1705 Dec
b. 24, f. 1367 Sermon notebook 1710
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