Jonathan Edwards is removed to Stockbridge. He becomes a missionary to the Indians. Edwards is voted to become the president of Princeton. Then he becomes ill with smallpox and dies.
Show Notes
- Removed to Stockbridge in January 1751
- His relative, John Sergeant, had been a missionary there
- 42 of the : Indians were communicants by the time of Sergeant’s death
- The area was not safe - murders, kidnappings
- Strife and disagreement amongst the families there
- Long familial dispute between the Edwardses and the Williamses
- In 1754, Edwards gets everything under control
- The French and Indian War
- Edwards preaches 4 times every Sunday
- Catechism classes for the Indian children and the white children
- Indians get along with the Edwards family
- Jonathan Jr. at 9 years old goes away for a year to learn the language
- After the death of Edwards there were many Indian believers in Stockbridge
- Daughter Esther marries the young Presbyterian minister, Aaron Burr
- Aaron Burr becomes one of the founder of Princeton College and is its second president
- Burr dies, laboring for the college
- Edwards is voted to become the next president; he refuses, then relents
- Outbreak of smallpox
- Edwards is innocculated and dies
- Sarah and Esther die later
Resolution 17:
Resolved, that I will live so as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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