[Rarebooks] fa: SERMON(S) AT THE FUNERAL(S) OF MRS. ANNA (and ESTHER) STRONG - Hartford, CT: 1789-93

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Henry Channing: A Sermon, Delivered at Hartford, at the Funeral of Mrs. Anna Strong, Consort of the Reverend Nathan Strong, and Daughter of the late Mr. John M'Curdy, of Lyme. She died March 22, 1789, aetat 30. [WITH:] Joseph Huntington: A Sermon, Delivered at Coventry, at the Funeral of Mrs. Esther Strong, late Consort of the Reverend Nathan Strong, Pastor of the Second Church in that town. October 21st, 1793. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1789, 1793. Two volumes, 8vo (20.5 cm), disbound; 15, [1] pp.; 24 pp. Evans 21733; 25641.

Early American imprints pertaining to the Congregational Church in Connecticut. Browning and spotting, most noticeably to the first title. Sorrow comes calling on the Nathan Strongs of Connecticut, father and son, both with the same name and both reverends. Nathan Strong junior (1748-1816), the first to be made a widower, was a leading Congregational divine and writer and collector of hymns, and pastor of the First Congregational Church of Hartford. The second funeral here is for the matriarch of the family, wife of Nathan Strong senior (d. 1795). According to a footnote to the sermon, the dearly departed Esther was a survivor of the infamous Deerfield Raid: "she was a child at the time when Deerfield [Massachusetts] was burnt by savages, and tho' her mother and several of the family were murdered in the cruel massacre, and she carried captive into Canada with her father..., yet God was pleased to protect her, and redeem her out of captivity..."