An oration, delivered on the 49th anniversary of American independence, in the Mulberry Street Church before the hibernian, tailors, cordwainers, shipwrights, stone cutters, bakers and coopers' societies.

Mode of access: Internet.

The result of an ex-parte council convened in Providence, June 19, 1832, by letters missive from aggrieved members of the Richmond-Street church, with a brief history of the origin and progress of the difficulties which led to the convocation of said council.

Mode of access: Internet.

A plea for Africa. A sermon delivered at Bennet Street Church, in behalf of the American Colonization Society, July 4, 1830. ...

Blue printed paper covers.

Report of the Trustees of the Salem Public Library, Salem, Mass. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The diary of William Bentley, D.D., pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts.

"Bibliography, compiled b Alice G. Waters": v. 1, p. xxxvii-x1.

Correspondence between the First Church and the Tabernacle Church in Salem : in which the duties of churches are discussed and the rights of conscience vindicated.

Mode of access: Internet.

The preaching of the word : a sermon delivered at the institution of the Rev. Charles Mason, into the Rectorship of St. Peter's Church, Salem, May 31, 1837 /

"Printed at the request of the Wardens and Vestry of St. Peter's Chuch, Salem."

Principles of Congregationalism : the Second century lecture of the First Church.

Mode of access: Internet.

Proceedings of a meeting of friends of Rev. John Pierpont : and his reply to the charges of the committee, of Hollis Street Society.

"October 26th, 1839."

Principles of the Reformation. A sermon preached November 16, 1826, at the dedication of the house of public worship of the First Congregational Society in Salem. ...

Appendix, pp.[50]-62, contains a "Brief historical sketch of the First Church in Salem," with an illustration of the meeting-house built in 1718.

Principles of the Reformation. A sermon preached at the dedication of the house of public worship of the First Congregational Society in Salem, November 16, 1826.

Appendix, pp.[40]-48, contains a "Brief historical sketch of the First Church in Salem."

Vital statistics of the town of Keene, New Hampshire : compiled from the town records, First Church and family records, the original Fisher record and the newspapers /

Facsimile reprint. Original imprint: Keene, N.H. : Sentinel Printing Company, 1905.

Collections concerning the church or congregation of Protestant Separatists formed at Scrooby in north Nottinghamshire, in the time of King James I : the founders of New-Plymouth, the parent-colony of New-England /

"This volume is in one sense a second edition of a tract which was printed in 1849, entitled 'Collections concerning the early history of the founders of a New Plymouth, the first colonists of New England'"--P. vii.

Poems copied by James Diman, ca. 1730-1733

Small pamphlet-sized notebook containing handwritten transcriptions of three poems copied by James Diman, likely in the early 1730s. The notebook contains "The Catholic Remedy. to ye Tune of To all you Ladies, not at land &c.," "Father Ab--y's Will. Col. Sweeper Camb: Dec. 1731," and "The Poet's Lamentation for ye Loss of his cat, w'ch he used to call his Muse" copied from the London Magazine, November 1733. The "Catholic Remedy" begins "You Peope who desire to mend / your Desperate Estate..." and includes the note, "Made upon A--D--'s goving over to take orders. The note refers to the voyage of Addington Davenport (Harvard AB 1719) to England join the priesthood of the Church of England in 1730. "Father Ab--y's Will" begins "To my dear Wife, / My joy and Life..." and was a humorous poem published in 1731 after the death of Harvard College Sweeper Matthew Abdy, and attributed to Jonathan Seccombe (Harvard AB 1728). The "Poet's Lamentation" begins "Oppress'd with Grief, in heavy strains I mourn..." and was written by Joseph Green (Harvard AB 1726) as a parody of a psalm composed by Mather Byles (Harvard AB 1725). Pages 10-12, holding part of "Father Ab--y's Will" are missing, and pages 13-15 are no longer attached to the item.

Papers of William Merchant Richardson, 1797-1806

The collection contains a four-page handwritten poem titled "Invention" composed by graduate William Richardson for the 1797 Harvard College Commencement, and an 1806 letter of introduction written by Richardson. The rhyming poem begins, “Long had creations anthem peal been rung…” and contains classical references, and mentions scientists and philosophers including Voltaire, Franklin and Newton. The poem is accompanied by a one-page handwritten letter of introduction for lawyer Benjamin Ames (Harvard AB 1803) written by William M. Richardson to Reverend William Jenks (Harvard AB 1797). The letter is dated November 10, 1806.