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1738 letter Boston Caleb LYMAN to Rev. Solomon WILLIAMS
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Offered without reserve: Business correspondence of Caleb Lyman, Boston, 22 August 1738, to Reverend Solomon Williams, Lebanon [Connecticut]. " Rev'd Sir / I have sent pr Mr Park Williams / 6 yds Shalloon 3.11.6 / pr Silk Hose 3.5.- / 4 yds Bag Holland 3/16/0 / yrd Cambrick .18.6 / the handkerchief d'd yourself [ ] .12.- / I unfortunately lost the pattern w'ch you sent & so cou'd not comply with your desisre in sending the Col'o but have sent Colours which are fashionable for any Cloth in Boston & hope they will suit. / Yr hble serv't / Caleb Lyman ."Bifolium lettersheet (6 x 7 1/2 inches), thick laid paper with ornate watermark. Address leaf: " For The Rev'd Mr Sol'o Williams In Lebanon ." No postal markings. Leaf bearing the correspondence especially fresh and clean; address leaf with early staining. ___________________________________In a quick internet search, we had little success finding references to Caleb Lyman. Reverend Solomon Williams was the father of William Williams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. From Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit: Or Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen (1857, available online via Google Book Search), at pp. 321-326, born 1700, died 1776; graduated Harvard College, 1719; ordained pastor of the church in Lebanon, Connecticut, 1722; was a Fellow of Yale College, 1749-1769. "Dr. Williams undoubtedly held a place amongst the most prominent of the New England clergy. His influence was felt among the churches, and his services were very often called for on important occasions. In the course of his ministry, he was engaged in two controversies, which, at the time, attracted considerable attention: one in 1746, with the Rev. Andrew Croswell, on 'the Nature of Justifying Faith'; the other, in 1751, with his cousin, the elder Jonathan Edwards, on 'the Qualifications necessary to lawful communion in the Christian Sacraments.'"THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!
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