Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1705-1777

Publication

[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.)

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

31, [1] pages; 21 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

Sermon occasioned by the sudden and much lamented death

Subject

• Whitefield, George, 1714-1770 > Death and burial > Sermons
• Bible. > Sermons > Early works to 1800
• Presbyterians > England > Sermons
• Presbyterians > United States > Sermons
• Abolitionists > England > Sermons
• Abolitionists > United States > Sermons
• Funeral sermons
• Sermons, American > 18th century

Genre/Form

• American poetry – 18th century – African American women authors.
• American poetry – 18th century – African American women poets.

Note

• Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing price in imprint transcription.
• "Speedily will be published, printed on a fine paper and new letter, the works of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield ...."--page [1] at end.
• "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)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In (note)

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

Source (note)

• from Arthur A. Schomburg;
• of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

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

Call Number

Sc Rare D 16-13 (Lapidus Collection)

OCLC

12536997

Author

Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1705-1777, author.

Title

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

[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

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In:

English short title catalogue, T79049

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 59606

Provenance

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

Source

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.

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2016. Copy in Sc Rare D 16-13 (Lapidus Collection), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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Added Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. Elegiac poem.

E. & C. Dilly (Firm), bookseller.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare D 16-13 (Lapidus Collection)

Sc Rare B-Whitefield (Pemberton, E. Heaven the residence of the saints)

*KF 1771 (Pemberton, E. Heaven the residence of the saints)