Newberry Library - Letter Fort Dummer, Vt., to Jonathan Ashley, Deerfield, Mass., 1746 June 13

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Open book Letter Fort Dummer, Vt., to Jonathan Ashley, Deerfield, Mass., 1746 June 13

Title Letter Fort Dummer, Vt., to Jonathan Ashley, Deerfield, Mass., 1746 June 13

Creator Ashley, Joseph, 1709-1797

Date 1746-1761

Place Massachusetts--Deerfield, New England, United States, Vermont--Fort Dummer, Vermont--Winchester

Language English

Subjects Clergy, Military chaplains

Description Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
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Summary June 13, 1746, letter from Joseph Ashley at Fort Dummer, to his first cousin, Jonathan Ashley, a minister at Deerfield, Mass. Ashley refers to his continuing status as pastor at Winchester, though the settlement had dispersed, which made it impossible for him to accept another position. He also notes that he would not continue long as chaplain (presumably at Fort Dummer) and that "it is difficult to know at all times what is one's duty to do." On the verso are Jonathan Ashley's notes for a sermon delivered at Northfield and Deerfield in 1750, and at Greenfield in 1761.

Biographical/Historical Note Congregational clergyman. A graduate of Yale College, Joseph Ashley in 1736 assumed a pastorship in Arlington (later named Winchester) in southwestern New Hampshire (now Vermont). In 1746, during King George's War, the settlement was broken up by the Indians, but Ashley was not dismissed from his post until 1747. That year he was appointed to a ministry in Sunderland, Mass., where he remained until his death in 1797.

Extent 1 item (1 leaf) ; 20 cm

Format Correspondence, Manuscripts, American, Sermons

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Ayer MS 34

BibID 134948

Size 1854px × 2327px 12.38 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

File Created 12/03/2013

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