Townsend, Jonathan, 1721-1776. Sermon, October 22, 1752. bMS 735/1 (1), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School.

This unsigned, autograph manuscript sermon is twenty-two pages long and was composed in 1752. It is based on the Gospel of Luke 10:41-42. The end of the sermon notes several other places and dates where it was delivered.

Biographical Notes

Jonathan Townsend was born in 1721 in Needham, Massachusetts to Mary Sugars and Jonathan Townsend. He graduated from Harvard in 1741, and was ordained in 1745. He was installed at the church in Medfield, Massachusetts, and was chaplain in Colonel Bagley’s regiment at Louisburg in 1760. He resigned from his pastorate in 1769, and he died from smallpox in 1776 in Dedham, Massachusetts.

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