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Additional authors

1. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
2. E. & C. Dilly (Firm), bookseller

Description

1. 31, [1] pages; 21 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative title

1. Sermon occasioned by the sudden and much lamented death

Subject

1. Presbyterians > United States > Sermons
2. Funeral sermons
3. Abolitionists > United States > Sermons
4. Abolitionists > England > Sermons
5. American poetry > 18th century > African American women poets
6. American poetry > 18th century > African American women authors
7. Bible > Peter, 1st, I, 4 > Sermons > Early works to 1800
8. Sermons, American > 18th century
9. Presbyterians > England > Sermons
10. Whitefield, George, 1714-1770 > Death and burial > Sermons

Genre/Form

1. American poetry – 18th century – African American women authors.
2. American poetry – 18th century – African American women poets.

Call number

1. Sc Rare D 16-13 (Lapidus Collection)

Note

1. Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing price in imprint transcription.
2. "Speedily will be published, printed on a fine paper and new letter, the works of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield ...."--page [1] at end.
3. "An elegiac poem, on the death of that celebrated divine, and eminent servant of Jesus Christ, the late Reverend, and pious George Whitefield ... who made his exit from this transitory state, to dwell in the celestial realms of bliss, on Lord's-Day, 30th of September, 1770 ... at Newbury-Port, near Boston, in New-England. ... By Phillis, a servant girl of 17 years of age, belonging to Mr. J. Wheatley of Boston: she has been but nine years in this Country from Africa."--caption title, page [29].

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed in (note)

1. English short title catalogue
2. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time

Source (note)

1. from Arthur A. Schomburg;
2. of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1705-1777, author.

Title

1. Heaven the residence of the saints : a sermon occasioned by the sudden, and much lamented death of the Rev. George Whitefield, A.M. chaplain to the Right-Honourable the Countess of Huntington : delivered at the Thursday lecture in Boston, in America, Oct. 11, 1770 / by Ebenezer Pemberton, pastor of a church in Boston. To which is added, an elegiac poem on his death by Phillis, a Negro girl of seventeen years of age, belonging to Mr. J. Wheatley of Boston.

Publisher

1. [London] : Boston, printed: London, reprinted, for E. and C. Dilly; and sold at the Chapel in Tottenham-Court Road, and at the Tabernacle near Moorfields, MDCCLXXI. [1771] (Price sixpence.)

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed in:

1. English short title catalogue, T79049
2. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 59606

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare B-Whitefield (accession no. B547565) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Source

1. Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare B-Whitefield (Pemberton, E. Heaven the residence of the saints), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.
2. Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2016. Copy in Sc Rare D 16-13 (Lapidus Collection), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection
2. Request Access to Special Collections Material
3. Full text available via HathiTrust

Added author

1. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. Elegiac poem.
2. E. & C. Dilly (Firm), bookseller.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare D 16-13 (Lapidus Collection)
2. Sc Rare B-Whitefield (Pemberton, E. Heaven the residence of the saints)
3. *KF 1771 (Pemberton, E. Heaven the residence of the saints)