American Revolution Army Patriot Reverend DAVID AVERY Signed + Inscribed Imprint

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  American Revolution Patriot Chaplain David Avery Crossed the Delaware with Washington, Signed and Inscribed Sermon
  DAVID AVERY (1746-1818). Historic Patriot Chaplain of the American Revolutionary War as Chaplain of the Continental Army; participated in the Siege of Boston, rescue of troops in the Quebec Campaign, the Crossing of the Delaware, and the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, etc.
  May 25, 1786-Dated Post Revolutionary War, Imprint titled, "A SERMON PREACHED AT THE INSTALLATION OF THE REVEREND DAVID AVERY, TO THE MINISTERIAL OFFICE IN THE CHURCH OF WRENTHAM, MAY 25, 1786." containing 35 pages, complete. On the outside back cover has a manuscript inscription which reads: "For the Rev. Mr. Kirkland, as a Mark of Esteem, from his affectionate friend and brother, David Avery." Nicely housed in a custom made leather and cloth covered presentation folio. This important 18th century treatise was written by Nathanael Emmons and printed by Bennett Wheeler, Providence, Rhode Island. Nathanael Emmons (1745-1840) was himself an ardent Patriot during the American Revolution and an influential New England clergyman for many years.
  Avery was a driving force in the establishment of Andover Theological Seminary. Back cover bears the presentation inscription of David Avery, who was arguably the most famous Chaplain of the American Revolutionary War. Avery's loyalty to the newly emerging nation and his gallantry in battle earned the unwavering admiration of all patriots including George Washington. Reverend Avery set the standard for the U.S. Military Chaplains.
  Back cover bears the presentation inscription: "For the Rev. Mr. Kirkland, as a Mark of Esteem, from his affectionate friend and brother. David Avery". Avery's personalized inscription rings boldly from this early American pamphlet. His signature is rare in any form. Volume housed in protective folding portfolio within a half-leather slipcase with raised bands and gilt lettering. October, 1963 donation sticker from renowned Americana collector Hall Park McCullough (1872-1966) pasted to inside of folding portfolio. We could not locate another obtainable copy of this work. [Evans 19623; Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1042].
  The Reverend David Avery was born April 5, 1746, in Franklin, Connecticut. David Avery was prepared for Yale at the Rev Eleazur Wheelock's school at Lebanon where he became interested in the native American Indians. In 1766, he went as missionary to the Indians of western New York. After his return from Fort Stanwix, he was graduated at Yale, in 1769. He preached for a time to the Indians of Long Island.
  In 1771, he went to Hanover, NH, where Dr. Wheelock had begun a college. Aug. 29, 1771, he was ordained as an Assistant to the Reverend Mr. Kirkland, at Oneida, New York, where he spent a year among the Oneida, Indians. He finished his studies in divinity with Dr. Wheelock at Hanover and received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1773. The same year, he became pastor of the Congregational church at Windsor, Mass.
  He marched from Windsor upon the "Lexington Alarm," with about twenty of his parishioners; was made chaplain of Col. Patterson's regiment, April 22, 1775, and later becoming chaplain of the Fourth Massachusetts brigade.
  His diaries, extending through the war, still exist. From these we learn that David Avery was at the battle of Bunker Hill; Noodle's Island, the siege of New York; in the Canada expedition of which he has left a graphic account. He Crossed the Delaware with General Washington and was in the Battle of Trenton. (See Avery's History of the United States and its People, vol. 6, chapter 2.)
  David Avery was released from his pastorate in 1777, with the best of feeling on both sides, because he felt that it was his duty to remain in the army. From his diary we learn that he shouldered a musket when need required. He remained in the Continental Army until the close of the war. On his return he was settled at Bennington, Vt., May J, 1780 and was officially dismissed from military service on June 17, 1783.
  After the Revolutionary war, he preached in several places and settled at Wrentham (MA.), May 25, 1786 and dismissed April 21, 1794. He preached afterwards to a congregation at North Wrentham, where a church was organized in 1795 until sometime in 1797, when he moved to Mansfield, Ct.. He engaged in missionary labor under the Massachusetts Domestic Missionary Society, going into New York and Maine. Afterwards, from 1798 to 1801, he preached in Chaplin, Ct., having gathered a new church and society there called the Union Church.
  He again went as missionary to the New York Indians, when after an interval of thirty-three years, he again met with Chief Red Jacket. They greeted each other with great affection. In 1801, he went as missionary to Maine. Many of David Avery's printed sermons as well as his diaries covering a period of forty years are still preserved. One of his sermons in our possession is a song of exultation over the alliance with the French. In this he reviews the war and its causes, and points out that the truth must prevail. It was preached before Col. Sherburne's regiment, Dec. 18, 1777.
  
  
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