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Samuel Hall |
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Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807 |
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1740 |
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1807 |
Description of Hall's publication Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1766) from Charles Edward Hammett, A contribution to the bibliography and literature of Newport, R. I. (Newport, R.I.: C. E. Hammett, jun., 1887):
"Hymns and Spiritual Songs, collected from the Works of several Authors. 16mo. pp. 180. Index 8. Newport. Printed by Samuel Hall, and sold by William Rogers, and Clarke Brown. 1766.
"The first sixteen hymns are on Baptism. The numbering then begins anew and seventy-one are devoted to the subject of the Lord's Supper; the remaining hymns, fifty-three in number, are under the title of Hymns and Spiritual Songs.
"William Rogers and Clarke Brown, for whom this book seems to have been printed, were admitted to membership in the Colony, the former in 1757, and the latter in 1746. They were both members of the Second Baptist Church of which Rev. Gardner Thurston was Pastor in 1771. Mr. Brown was in 1795 ordained as Pastor of a Christian Baptist Church at Machias, Maine. This is supposed to be the first hymn book in this country made by the Baptist denomination.
"The matter of singing Psalms, etc., appears to have been of much interest, as in 1735 Rev. Valentine Wightman, who baptised the Rev. Nicholas Ayres, Pastor of this Church, 1731-59, wrote a letter addressed to the churches of Rhode Island, Narhagansit, Providence and Swansey, on this subject."
Samuel Hall (1740-1807), was an Early American publisher and printer, newspaper editor, and an ardent colonial American patriot from Bedford, Massachusetts who was active in this capacity before and during the American Revolution, often printing newspapers and pamphlets in support of American independence. Hall was the founder of The Essex Gazette, the first newspaper published in Salem, Massachusetts in 1768. He often employed his newspaper as a voice supporting colonial grievances over taxation and other actions by the British Parliament that were considered oppressive, and ultimately in support of American independence.
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