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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Am 1599

Tristram Gilman sermons and other papers

Overview

Autograph manuscript sermons of Maine clergyman Tristram Gilman, and some of his father Nicholas Gilman.

Dates

  • Creation: 1728-1808

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

.75 linear feet (2 boxes)

Autograph manuscript, unsigned, sermons by Tristram Gilman (some loose and some bound into volumes); with sermons and other texts by Gilman's father, Nicholas Gilman. Most sermons include notes of the dates and locations around New England when the sermons were delivered and many of these sermons have sections at the end marked: "Applications" or "Improvements." Sermons based on verses from Isaiah, Romans, Exodus, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and other books of the Bible. Also includes a few autograph manuscript other compositions by Tristram Gilman.

Biographical / Historical

Tristram Gilman (1735-1809) was born in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1735. He received an AB in 1757 from Harvard College. Gilman was a Congregational clergyman, of North Yarmouth, Maine, pastor of First Church in North Yarmouth. He later was a trustee of Bowdoin College and the first president of the Maine Missionary Society. His father was a minister in New Hampshire, Nicholas Gilman (1708-1748; Harvard AB 1724, AM 1727).

Arrangement

Arranged into the following series:

  1. I. Tristram Gilman sermons
  2. ___A. Volumes of sermons
  3. ___B. Loose sermons
  4. II. Tristram Gilman other compositions
  5. III. Nicholas Gilman sermons and other texts

Physical Location

b

Immediate Source of Acquisition

No accession number. Gift of Charles H. Taylor; received: 1926 December 30. Recataloged from MS Am 926.

No accession number. Gift of Julia R. Gilman; received: 1932 May 13. Recataloged from HU 337.57.11.1.

No accession number. Gift of Roger Gilman; received: 1941.

Processing Information

Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt

Title
Gilman, Tristram, 1735-1809. Tristram Gilman sermons and other papers, 1728-1808: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou00305

Repository Details

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