An Account of Sundry Missions Performed Among the Senecas and Munsees (Classic Reprint)
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IT is a cause of gratitude, that, your pilgrimage having been extended through nearly one-twentieth part of the christian era, you are favoured with a comfortable degree of health. It is, however, a cause of warmer gratitude to the Giver of all good, that, indulged with the exercise of your intellectual'6 faculties, you are ena bled to meditate With delight, in the eve ning of your long protracted life, on the glorious overtures of grace, which signa lize the present day, and to rejoice in the dawning prospect of What God will fur ther do for the salvation of the world.
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An account of the several religious societies in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,: from their first establishment and of the ministers of each, to the first of January, 1805
A Collection Of American Epitaphs And Inscriptions V1: With Occasional Notes (1814)
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A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions, Vol. 3: With Occasional Notes (Classic Reprint)
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Joseph Adams, whose wife was Mary Baxter, daughter of captain John Baxter, of Braintree, had three sons, Joseph and Peter, who Spent their days in Braintree, and John, who removed to Boston.
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Alden's New-Jersey Register and United States' Calendar, for the Year of Our Lord, 1811: The Thirty-Fifth, Till the Fourth of July, of American ... Interesting Articles (Classic Reprint)
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For the year of our Lord, 1811 it being the third after bissextile, and the thirty fifth, till the fourth of July, of the independence of the American United States calculated for the latitude and longitude of Newark, in the state of N ew-jersey.
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A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions, Vol. 2: With Occasional Notes (Classic Reprint)
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Timotheus. Alo'en.the first edition of the first volume of this Coi lection was printed, in four numbers, in 1812. A variety of circumstances, not of sufficient import ance to be mentioned in this notice, has retarded the completion of this series, which is to consist of five volumes, any former intimation to the contra ry notwithstanding. It is now thought adviseable not to continue a division of the work into num bers, as the captions of those numbers would, in the aggregate, eicclude several pages of matter. Should this series meet with a favourable reception, it is probable that, a few years hence, D80 tolerate, a second may make its appearance, with 'a greater proportion oi' biographical andhistorical details, in reference to characters and events in the south em and western parts of the United States, than is to be found in the first pentade.
It having been occasionally suggested, in the first volume of this Collection, that its author was preparing a History of the state of N ew-j ersey, it is deemed proper here to add, that he has abandon ed that work for want of encouragement.
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Catalogue of the ... Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions, with Occasional Notes Volume V.4
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An Historical Sketch of the Pine Creek Church: With a Biographical Notice of the Late Rev. Joseph Stockton, A. M (Classic Reprint)
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From the best information, which the writer of this sketch has been able to obtain, it ape pears that the Pine Creek Church, in Indiana township, is indebted for its origin, under Providence, more to the exertions of William Davis Hawkins, Esq. Than to those of any other individual.
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Timothy Alden was an American Congregational clergyman, college president and antiquarian. He was the founder and president of Allegheny College, and later obtained a theology degree and served as pastor.
Background
Timothy Alden was born on August 28, 1771 at Yarmout, Massachusetts, United States. He was a descendant in the sixth generation of John Alden of Duxbury, who came to this country in the Mayflower in 1620. He was the son of Sarah (Weld) Alden and of Timothy Alden, who graduated from Harvard in 1762 and was for fifty-nine years pastor of the Congregational church at Yarmouth. At the age of eight, Alden went to live with his uncle, Joshua Alden, a well-to-do farmer of Bridgewater. Here he remained seven years.
Education
Alden was bent upon receiving a liberal education and was much more interested in his Latin grammar than in the tasks of the farm, and, on his uncle's advice, was allowed to give up farming and prepare for college. He began his preparatory studies with his father, continued them with the Reverend John Mellen, of Barnstable, and completed them at Phillips Academy, Andover. He then entered Harvard College, graduating with high rank in 1794, having distinguished himself especially by his proficiency in the classical and the oriental languages. After graduation, he began to study for the ministry under David Tappan, professor of theology, at Harvard. He then taught in an academy at Marblehead, at the same time completing his theological studies.
Career
In the fall of 1799 Alden accepted a call to the South Congregational Church of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as colleague pastor with the Reverend Samuel Haven. But his heart was always more in teaching than in preaching, and, even while serving as assistant pastor at Portsmouth, his time was largely given to teaching and historical research. His sermons were rather dull; he approached eloquence only when his subject gave him the opportunity to dwell on the history and heroes of his country; but he was an exceptionally gifted teacher.
In 1805 he resigned his pastorate, and then for a number of years was engaged in teaching in various girls' schools. On a trip to Cincinnati he had been much impressed by the opportunities of the West and the need of a higher institution of learning. He was caught by the vision of a college rising on the western frontier, a vision aptly portrayed in the original seal of the college he later founded, where (the description is Alden's) "the sun is represented as just rising and darting its beams across the distant Alleghany and other mountainous ridges by which it is flanked upon the wilderness of the west. " He determined to bring about the realization of this vision and planned a settlement to be named Aldenburg in the Alleghany Valley about ninety miles from Pittsburgh with the college in its midst, but having a cousin, Major Roger Alden, living in Meadville, Pennsylvania, he selected that town, instead, as the site. The citizens of Meadville entered into the scheme with enthusiasm, subscribed $6, 000 and then sent Alden to tour the East in search of further endowments, one of the many trips undertaken for that purpose. He came back with $461, some land of uncertain value, and a goodly collection of books, a collection soon to be augmented by further benefactions until it comprised 7, 000 volumes, making it one of the most valuable college libraries of the time. Thus Allegheny College was launched. Alden was made president and professor of oriental language and of ecclesiastical history, and was inaugurated July 28, 1817. As there were for some years no college buildings, the president received the students in his own home. The years that followed were years of hardship and repeated disappointments. Often for lack of funds the entire burden of instruction rested on the shoulders of the president, who served without salary. In face of all obstacles, however, Alden held steadfastly to his high ideals of scholarship, and when in 1831, for lack of funds, he was forced to turn the key of the one building that had been erected, and close the college (which was to be opened two years later under the auspices of the Methodists), he had established high traditions which lived on in the reestablished college.
His life on leaving Meadville was uneventful. For a time he kept a boarding-school at Cincinnati. Then he moved to Pittsburgh to take charge of an academy in the suburb known as East Liberty. In the last year of his life, he officiated as stated supply at Pine Creek Congregational Church in Sharpsburg.
While living at Meadville Timothy Alden devoted what time he could spare from college duties in the summer months to missionary work with the Seneca and Munsee tribes of Indians, being led to undertake this work as much from an admiration of their character as from a sense of their spiritual needs; and he left interesting and historically valuable records of his experiences. He had at first volunteered in this service, but later received an appointment from the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America.
It had been his habit from early youth, whenever he visited any town, to spend much time in its old burial ground, transcribing the epitaphs of the worthies of former days and using these as texts for brief articles, giving such information as he could gather about their lives and characters, which he later published in five volumes as A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions (1814).
During his sojourn in Boston, he was appointed librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society and prepared for publication a catalogue of its books and pamphlets, and later performed the same service for the New York Historical Society.
Alden was married to Elizabeth Shepard Wormsted, the daughter of Captain Robert Wormsted. She died in 1820 and in 1822 he married Sophia L. L. Mulcock.