Thank you for this. I visited Solomon Stoddard's grave at the Bridge St Cemetery in Northampton, MA. Just a couple of headstones over is the grave of David Brainerd.
Today, Northampton is considered to be the most politically liberal town of fewer than 100,000 population in the USA and a center for LGBT activity. I visited the town in the '90s looking for Edwards places, I wish I knew of that cemetery.
@@timothykeith1367 If you are ever in South Windsor you should check out the grave of Timothy Edwards in the oldest of the cemeteries on Old Main Street. There is a marker at the site where Jonathan Edwards was born, though the house is no longer standing. And yes, you are not kidding about "rainbow Northampton." Though one might say it fits right in to the current state of the Congregational Church. As they like to say, "God is still Speaking." Which is a very Congregational thing to say. Though I suspect that Cotton, Hooker, Davenport and Mather and the rest would not be very happy about what the church thinks it is "hearing" today.
Great video. Increase and Eleazar Mather were among the leaders against the half-way covenant (along with John Davenport of New Haven, who was one of the first generation). Their father Richard (also of the first generation) was in favor of the half way covenant. Increase eventually switched sides and supported it. Eleazar never did, IIRC. Perhaps he would have had he lived. It is interesting that Esther married someone with such different views from her prior husband. There are Mathers in Windsor, CT too, before 1700, and they also end up marrying into the Warham family. There is, for example, a Reverend Warham Mather (which brings to mind the naming of Cotton Mather after John Cotton). Jonathan Edwards birthplace is across the river from Windsor proper, in what is now the town of South Windsor. His father Timothy's gravestone is in one of the Cemetaries on Old Main Street there. (I grew up just down the street). He has a table type stone, which means the inscription did not last. You could not read it very easily when I was a kid in the '70s. (They may have re-carved it, I have not been there in many years). The middle school in South Windsor is named after Timothy Edwards.
This was a real blessing.Thank you for this.
Really enjoyed this. Thank you!
Thank you for citing your sources.
I’m a descendant of Rev. Solomon Stoddard, through my dad, through his mom, through her mom, and so forth.
My 9x Great Grandfather.
And I, of one of his opponent Increase's brothers. "Scratch a Yankee, find a cousin."
Thanks for sharing. Informative and encouraging.
Thank you for this. I visited Solomon Stoddard's grave at the Bridge St Cemetery in Northampton, MA. Just a couple of headstones over is the grave of David Brainerd.
That’s amazing. Wasn’t sure where David Brainerd was buried. He was a truly blessed Christian.
Today, Northampton is considered to be the most politically liberal town of fewer than 100,000 population in the USA and a center for LGBT activity.
I visited the town in the '90s looking for Edwards places, I wish I knew of that cemetery.
@@timothykeith1367 If you are ever in South Windsor you should check out the grave of Timothy Edwards in the oldest of the cemeteries on Old Main Street. There is a marker at the site where Jonathan Edwards was born, though the house is no longer standing.
And yes, you are not kidding about "rainbow Northampton." Though one might say it fits right in to the current state of the Congregational Church. As they like to say, "God is still Speaking." Which is a very Congregational thing to say. Though I suspect that Cotton, Hooker, Davenport and Mather and the rest would not be very happy about what the church thinks it is "hearing" today.
Great video. Increase and Eleazar Mather were among the leaders against the half-way covenant (along with John Davenport of New Haven, who was one of the first generation). Their father Richard (also of the first generation) was in favor of the half way covenant. Increase eventually switched sides and supported it. Eleazar never did, IIRC. Perhaps he would have had he lived. It is interesting that Esther married someone with such different views from her prior husband.
There are Mathers in Windsor, CT too, before 1700, and they also end up marrying into the Warham family. There is, for example, a Reverend Warham Mather (which brings to mind the naming of Cotton Mather after John Cotton). Jonathan Edwards birthplace is across the river from Windsor proper, in what is now the town of South Windsor. His father Timothy's gravestone is in one of the Cemetaries on Old Main Street there. (I grew up just down the street). He has a table type stone, which means the inscription did not last. You could not read it very easily when I was a kid in the '70s. (They may have re-carved it, I have not been there in many years).
The middle school in South Windsor is named after Timothy Edwards.
Correction: Increase Mather's dates are 1639-1723.
Lovely show. Thanks Ps Matthew. Is there a way to reach you via email?
I didnt know soloman dressed like a roman catholic.