Travels in New-England and New York

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Author: Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817) Year: 1823 Publisher: William Baynes Sons Place: London Description: 4 volumes; xxxi+[1]+483 pages with engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved folding map; xi+504 pages with engraved folding map; xi+514 pages and engraved folding map. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") issued in decorative leather and gilt lettering to labels on spines. (Howes: D620) First published in New Haven (1821-22) First British edition. American divine, writer, and educationalist, was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, on the 14th of May 1752. His father, Timothy Dwight, a graduate of Yale College (1744), was a merchant, and his mother was the third daughter of Jonathan Edwards. He was remarkably precocious, and is said to have learned the alphabet in a single lesson, and to have been able to read the Bible before he was four years old. In 1769 he graduated at Yale College, and then for two years taught in a grammar school at New Haven. He was a tutor in Yale College from 1771 to 1777; and then, having been licensed to preach, was a chaplain for a year in a regiment of troops engaged in the War of Independence, inspiring the troops both by his sermons and by several stirring war songs, the most famous of which is Columbia. From 1778 until 1783 he lived at Northampton, studying, farming, preaching, and dabbling in politics. From 1783 until 1795 he was pastor of the Congregational church at Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, where he opened an academy which at once acquired a

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