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Samuel Willard, the Glossary

Samuel Willard (January 31, 1640 – September 12, 1707) was a New England Puritan clergyman.^[1]

47 relations: Abiah Folger, Anglicanism, Benjamin Franklin, Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Charlestown, Boston, Concord, Massachusetts, Descendants of Simon Willard, Edmund Andros, Edward Rawson (politician), Founding Fathers of the United States, Freeman (Thirteen Colonies), Granary Burying Ground, Groton, Massachusetts, Harvard College, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Hezekiah Usher, Increase Mather, John Alden, John Hull (merchant), John Leverett the Younger, Joseph Dudley, Joshua Scottow, Josiah Franklin, King Philip's War, King's Chapel, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Master of Arts, Minister (Christianity), New England, Old South Meeting House, Pastor, Peter Bulkley, Polymath, Possession of Elizabeth Knapp, President of Harvard University, Priscilla Alden, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Puritans, Salem witch trials, Samuel Sewall, Simon Willard (Massachusetts colonist), The Reverend, Thomas Brattle, Thomas Thacher, Watertown, Massachusetts.
Burials at Granary Burying Ground
Clergy in the Salem witch trials
Critics of witch hunting
Presidents of Harvard University

Abiah Folger

Abiah Folger Franklin (August 15, 1667 – May 18, 1752) was the mother of Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States. Samuel Willard and Abiah Folger are Burials at Granary Burying Ground.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Charlestown, Boston

Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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Concord, Massachusetts

Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Descendants of Simon Willard

Simon Willard (1605–1676) family.

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Edmund Andros

Sir Edmund Andros (6 December 1637 – 24 February 1714; also spelled Edmond) was an English colonial administrator in British America.

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Edward Rawson (politician)

Edward Rawson (April 16, 1615August 27, 1693) served as the first Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Samuel Willard and Edward Rawson (politician) are Burials at Granary Burying Ground.

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Founding Fathers of the United States

The Founding Fathers of the United States, commonly referred to as the Founding Fathers, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for the new nation.

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Freeman (Thirteen Colonies)

During the American colonial period a freeman was a person who was not a slave.

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Granary Burying Ground

The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston's third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street.

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Groton, Massachusetts

Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area.

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Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hezekiah Usher

Hezekiah Usher (1616 – 14 May 1676) was an English bookseller in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts Bay.

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Increase Mather

Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 Old Style – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New England Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and president of Harvard College for twenty years (1681–1701). Samuel Willard and Increase Mather are American sermon writers, clergy in the Salem witch trials, history of religion in the United States and presidents of Harvard University.

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John Alden

John Alden (- September 12, 1687) was a crew member on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower which brought the English settlers commonly known as Pilgrims to Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.

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John Hull (merchant)

John Hull (December 18, 1624October 1, 1683) was an English-born merchant, silversmith, slave trader and politician who spent the majority of his life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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John Leverett the Younger

John Leverett (August 25, 1662 – May 3, 1724) was an early Anglo-American lawyer, politician, educator, and President of Harvard College. Samuel Willard and John Leverett the Younger are presidents of Harvard University.

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Joseph Dudley

Joseph Dudley (September 23, 1647 – April 2, 1720) was a colonial administrator, a native of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the son of one of its founders.

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Joshua Scottow

Joshua Scottow (England, ca. 1618 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA, January 20, 1698), was a colonial American merchant and the author of two histories of early New England: Old Men's Tears for Their Own Declensions (1691) and A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusetts Colony Anno 1628 (1694).

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Josiah Franklin

Josiah Franklin Sr. (December 23, 1657 – January 16, 1745) was an English businessman and the father of Benjamin Franklin. Samuel Willard and Josiah Franklin are Burials at Granary Burying Ground.

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King Philip's War

King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands against the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies.

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King's Chapel

King's Chapel is an American independent Christian unitarian congregation affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association that is "unitarian Christian in theology, Anglican in worship, and congregational in governance." It is housed in what was for a time after the Revolution called the "Stone Chapel", an 18th-century structure at the corner of Tremont Street and School Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.

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Minister (Christianity)

In Christianity, a minister is a person authorised by a church or other religious organization to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading services such as weddings, baptisms or funerals; or otherwise providing spiritual guidance to the community.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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Old South Meeting House

The Old South Meeting House is a historic Congregational church building located at the corner of Milk and Washington Streets in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1729.

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Pastor

A pastor (abbreviated to "Pr" or "Ptr" (both singular), or "Ps" (plural)) is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation.

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Peter Bulkley

Peter Bulkley (31 January 1583 – 9 March 1659, last name also spelled Bulkeley) was an influential early Puritan minister who left England for greater religious freedom in the American colony of Massachusetts.

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Polymath

A polymath (lit; lit) or polyhistor (lit) is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

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Possession of Elizabeth Knapp

The possession of Elizabeth Knapp of Groton, Massachusetts was documented by Samuel Willard, a prominent preacher in the Puritan, Massachusetts Bay Colony from October 30, 1671 until January 12, 1672.

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President of Harvard University

The president of Harvard University is the chief administrator of Harvard University and the ex officio president of the Harvard Corporation. Samuel Willard and president of Harvard University are presidents of Harvard University.

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Priscilla Alden

Priscilla Alden (–) was a noted member of Massachusetts's Plymouth Colony of Pilgrims and the wife of fellow colonist John Alden (– 1687).

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Province of Massachusetts Bay

The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.

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Salem witch trials

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.

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Samuel Sewall

Samuel Sewall (March 28, 1652 – January 1, 1730) was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay "The Selling of Joseph" (1700), which criticized slavery. Samuel Willard and Samuel Sewall are Burials at Granary Burying Ground.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Willard

Also known as Willard, Samuel.

Samuel Willard, the Glossary

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See also

Burials at Granary Burying Ground

Clergy in the Salem witch trials

Critics of witch hunting

Presidents of Harvard University

References