LC control no. | n 85067470 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Winchester, Elhanan, 1751-1797 |
Ending date | 17970418 |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1751 |
Place of birth | Brookline (Mass.) |
Field of activity | Preaching |
Affiliation | Massachusetts Universalist Convention |
Profession or occupation | Clergy |
Special note | Data provided by the ESTC/BL |
Found in | His The seed of the woman bruising the serpent's head, 1781: t.p. (Elhanan Winchester) LC in RLIN, 7/25/85 (hdg.: Winchester, Elhanan, 1751-1797) Wikipedia, 16 Mar. 2015 (Elhanan Winchester; born 1751 in Brookline, Massachusetts, died 18 April 1797; one of the founders of the United States General Convention of Universalists, later the Universalist Church of America; he began preaching to the New Lights of the Congregationalist Church in his native Massachusetts as a youth; he soon joined the Baptists and at a revival meeting in 1771, he was ordained a Baptist minister in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; in 1794 he became moderator of the Massachusetts Universalist Convention; as an itinerant preacher, he grew increasingly troubled about slavery) |
Associated language | eng |