A SERMON, DELIVERED AT ELLINGTON IN CONNECTICUT, AT THE INTERMENT OF THE REVEREND JOHN ELSWORTH, A. M. LATE MINISTER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE ISLAND OF SABA, IN THE WEST-INDIES. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV. 22, 1791, AGED 29 YEARS. PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE MOURNING PARENTS
1792 · Hartford
by McClure, David
Hartford, 1792. 32pp, with the half title. Plain front wrap; lacks rear wrap. Ornament at top of page (7). Several attractive styles of type, including script. Stitched and untrimmed. Tanned. A few short tears at leaf edges. "Rev. M. Root" in manuscript at head of half-title; "Barzillai Green, His Book" on verso of half-title. Good+ to Very Good.
Elsworth was descended from one of the founding families of Ellington, Connecticut, and had been ordained at East Windsor in 1789. He then was called to the Island of Saba, which "contains about 120 European families- is in the vicinity of St. Eustatius and belong to the United States of Holland. It enjoys a salubrious air, and is esteemed the healthiest of the Islands...Letters from respectable characters on the Island...express the highest and most affectionate esteem of him, during his ministry there." He died from a "wasting disorder." FIRST EDITION. Evans 24487. Trumbull 1038. (Inventory #: 19624)
Elsworth was descended from one of the founding families of Ellington, Connecticut, and had been ordained at East Windsor in 1789. He then was called to the Island of Saba, which "contains about 120 European families- is in the vicinity of St. Eustatius and belong to the United States of Holland. It enjoys a salubrious air, and is esteemed the healthiest of the Islands...Letters from respectable characters on the Island...express the highest and most affectionate esteem of him, during his ministry there." He died from a "wasting disorder." FIRST EDITION. Evans 24487. Trumbull 1038. (Inventory #: 19624)
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