1784 Octavo First Edition Pamphlet Sermon Before Gov. John Hancock; Lt. Gov. Thomas Cushing; Honorable Council, Senate, And House Of Representatives Day Of The General Election By Moses Hemmenway

Importance: Hemmenway, Moses (15 Sept. 1735-5 Apr. 1811), Old Calvinist and Congregational minister, was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, the son of Ralph Hemmenway, occupation unknown, and Sara Haven. He was tutored by his uncle Phineas Hemmenway before entering Harvard College (B.A. 1755; D.D. 1785; D.D., Dartmouth, 1792). In 1759, after pulpit supply work in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Hemmenway became the minister at the Fourth Congregational Church in Wells, Maine. He was ordained in 1759 and remained at Wells until his death. In 1762 he married Mary Jeffords, the daughter of his predecessor, Samuel Jeffords. The Hemmenways had eleven children. Unlike most of his peers, Hemmenway was a staunch Whig during the Revolution. During his tenure at Wells, he attended the Constitutional Convention in 1788, where he labored for its ratification. In the 1760s Hemmenway emerged as a leader of the "Old Calvinists"--a general term for ministers whose moderate Calvinism provoked the wrat