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(1785-1866) Poet. John Pierpont was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and was pastor of a church in Troy, New York, for a time.

Full Name

John Pierpont

Locations

Rensselaer

Author's Timeline


1785

BIRTH

John Pierpont was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1785.

1812

LITWORK

The Portrait


Poem.

1816

LITWORK

Airs of Palestine


Collection of poetry.

1823

LITWORK

The American First Class Book


School book.

1827

LITWORK

The National Reader


School book.

1833

LITWORK

The Burning of the Ephesian Letters


Sermon.

1834

LITWORK

Jesus Christ Not a Literal Sacrifice


Sermon.

1837

LITWORK

New Heavens and a New Earth


Sermon.

1839

LITWORK

Moral Rule of Political Action


Sermon.

1840

LITWORK

National Humiliation


Sermon.

1843

LITWORK

The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont


Collection of poetry.

1845

OTHER

Pierpont was pastor of a Unitarian church in Troy, New York, from 1845 to 1849.

1866

DEATH

John Pierpont died in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1866.

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