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About fifty rods below the bridge leading to Brookline, there is a very commodious wharf, owned by William Winthrop, Efquire, at which great quantities of wood and lumber are annually unladen, to the great convenience of the mechanical interefis, and to the general accommoda tion of the town. The breadth of Charles river here, is twenty-two rods.
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Abiel Holmes was an American clergyman and historian. He served as a minister at the First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Background
Abiel Holmes was born on December 24, 1763 in Woodstock, Connecticut, United States. His father, David Holmes, served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War.
In 1790 he married Mary, a daughter of Ezra Stiles. His father, David Holmes, served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War. David was descended from John Holmes, an early settler of Woodstock, and married Temperance Bishop, of Norwich, Connecticut. When Holmes was fifteen his father died.
Education
Holmes entered Yale College, from which he graduated in 1783, having joined the College Church in his sophomore year.
Career
After a visit to the South, following his graduation, he was ordained at New Haven, September 15, 1785, with a view to ministering to a Congregational Church in Midway, Georgia. Reverend Levi Hart's sermon at his ordination, which was presided over by the learned President Ezra Stiles of Yale, bore the title "A Christian Minister described, and distinguished from a Pleaser of Men. " His ministry in Georgia, where his health was imperfect, lasted until June 1791, and was broken by a period of teaching at Yale (1786-1887).
Soon after his final return to New England in 1791 he was called to the pastorate of the First Church in Cambridge, Massachussets, where he was installed January 25, 1792, and served as minister for thirty-seven years. Left childless, Holmes was not left without occupation, for Stiles had bequeathed to him "no less than forty volumes of the valuable manuscripts" collected "by an extensive and remarkably inquisitive correspondence. " These provided not only abundant material for The Life of Ezra Stiles, which Holmes published in 1798, but also an impetus towards the important work of his own by which he is best remembered.
In 1805 the first edition of this work appeared in two octavo volumes, under the title, American Annals; or a Chronological History of America from its Discovery in MCCCCXCII to MDCCCVI. A second edition, published in 1829, was entitled The Annals of America, from the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492 to the Year 1826. These volumes, as the first attempt at an extensive orderly history of the country as a whole, marked an important step in American historiography. They consist largely of a chronological recital of facts, amassed with a scholar's care from a great variety of sources, manuscript and printed. His published writings include a large number of sermons and addresses. There is good reason to ascribe to his authorship a number of poems, signed "Myron, " in a small volume entitled A Family Tablet published in 1796.
His theology, that of a mild but determined Calvinist, did not save him from the distresses attending the "Unitarian schism" in New England. The termination of his practice of "exchanging" with neighboring ministers of liberal views gave rise to a bitter controversy, recorded in two pamphlets, and in 1829 his long pastorate came to an end. The church members who quitted the First Parish with him then organized the "Shepard Congregational Society, " of which he became the first minister. In 1831 he retired from active parochial duties.
Holmes was a member of the Unitarian Universalist church.
Membership
Holmes was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1803. From 1798 to the end of his life he was a highly productive member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and from 1813 to 1833 its corresponding secretary.
Personality
"A person of the middle size, " Holmes appears in a portrait reproduced in the Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes as possessing a countenance of marked beauty and charm.
Connections
In 1790 he married Mary, a daughter of Ezra Stiles. In 1795 both his wife and her father died. Six years after the death of his first wife, Holmes married, March 26, 1801, Sarah Wendell, only daughter of Oliver Wendell, a Boston merchant. Their home was "The old Gambrel-roofed House" in Cambridge, so often celebrated by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the fourth of their five children. Here the faithful minister and scholar compassed a long span of fruitful years, truly respected and beloved.