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third meeting house 1737

First Churches of Northampton

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Jonathan Edwards was assistant pastor of the Northampton church from 1726 to 1729, and senior pastor from 1729 to 1750. Edwards started in the “Second Meetinghouse” and built the “Third Meetinghouse” during the Great Awakening in 1737. The current structure, aka “The Fifth Meetinghouse,” was built in 1878. Featured Image Credit: Virtual Tours – Historic Northampton Museum and Education Center. Read more...
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David Brainerd Grave

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David Brainerd (1718-1747) died at age 29, but inspired missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Eliot. He was a struggling farmer but during the Great Awakening on July 12, 1739, “the Lord… brought me to a hearty desire to exalt him, to set him on the throne, and to ‘seek first his Kingdom,’ i.e., principally and ultimately to aim Read more...
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