1777 JAMES BRIGGS. MSs Sermon by First Pastor in Cummington MA, Yale Graduate, and Revivalist. ZZAmericanaandHistory discussing the Great Whore

discussing the Great Whore

He received a license to preach in 1846 and was ordained by the Freewill Baptists at Poestenkill

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1777 JAMES BRIGGS. MSs Sermon by First Pastor in Cummington MA, Yale Graduate, and Revivalist. ZZAmericanaandHistory discussing the Great WhoreA fine 2pp MSs sermon [complete] by Revolutionary War era divine, Rev. James Briggs [1745 1825]. Excellent content. A graduate of Yale [c. 1775], Briggs began preaching in Cummington, Massachusetts in 1777. A group of Christians had already gathered, but having no minister, he "filled in" for nearly two years, and was ordained their pastor in 1779. The town, "Voted to give Mr. Briggs two hundred acres of good land, and sixty pounds, stated by rye at