Correspondence relating to Jonathan Edwards's mission to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Includes a letter from Edwards to Elisha Williams stating the reasons why Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight should not be made headmistress of a Native American female...
Description:
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a theologian and leader of the Great Awakening. He served as minister of the Congregationalist Church at Northampton, Massachusetts from 1726-1750 and became a missionary to the Mahican and Mohawk Indians at Stockbridg...
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts, Stockbridge, United States, Massachusetts., and Stockbridge (Mass.)
Calvinism, Clergy, Dissenters, Religious, Girls' schools, Indians of North America, Education, Missions, Mahican Indians, Missions, American, Mohawk Indians, Off-reservation boarding schools, Stockbridge Indians, Women, Women school principals, and Church history