AN ISRAELITE INDEED. A SERMON, OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. JOHN MOORHEAD; PREACHED AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN BOSTON, TO THE BEREAVED FLOCK, THE FIRST SABBATH AFTER HIS FUNERAL

AN ISRAELITE INDEED. A SERMON, OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. JOHN MOORHEAD; PREACHED AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN BOSTON, TO THE BEREAVED FLOCK, THE FIRST SABBATH AFTER HIS FUNERAL
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1774 · Boston

by M'Gregore, David
Boston: William M'Alpine, 1774. 35, [1 blank] pp, lacking the half title. Disbound, lightly dusted and worn, occasional foxing. Small hole at leaf 31-32 affects 3-4 letters. Good+, with discreet release stamp at lower margin of final blank page.

Moorhead was one of the prominent Bostonians who -- along with Samuel Mather, James Bowdoin, Harrison Gray, Governor Hutchinson, and others-- attested in 1773 to Phillis Wheatley's authorship of her 'Poems on Various Subjects.' Ms. Wheatley wrote an "Elegy To Miss Mary Moorhead" on the occasion of the Reverend's death. Reverend Moorhead's slave, Scipio Moorhead, drew the frontispiece of Ms. Wheatley's 'Poems...'
Evans 13391. (Inventory #: 26167)
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