Stephen Burrough's [sic] sermon : delivered at Rutland, on a hay-mow, to his auditory the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel; shut him into a barn, into which he ran for asylum; when he ascended a hay-mow, which was inaccessible, except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand, with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, as mentioned in the authors Memoirs, p. 90, 96, and delivered to them the following sermon, on the occasion

Stephen Burrough's [sic] sermon : delivered at Rutland, on a hay-mow, to his auditory the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel; shut him into a barn, into which he ran for asylum; when he ascended a hay-mow, which was inaccessible, except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand, with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, as mentioned in the authors Memoirs, p. 90, 96, and delivered to them the following sermon, on the occasion.

Author/creator	Burroughs, Stephen, 1765-1840
Other author/creator	First Presbyterian Church (Pelham, Mass.)
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[United States] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1798]
Description	7 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787--Anecdotes. American wit and humor.

Uniform title	Stephen Burroughs's sermon
Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 48384. ^A478749
General note	Caption title: Burrouogh's [sic] hay-mow sermon.
General note	Burroughs' flight from Pelham occurred in 1784. However, reference made in the sermon to Shays' Rebellion (1786-87) indicates that some, if not all, of the sermon was composed after the event. Burroughs' Memoirs, referred to in the title, were published in 1798.
General note	"The hymn."--p. [8].
References	Bristol B10251
References	Shipton & Mooney 48384
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 48384).
Genre/form	Satires.
Genre/form	Sermons 1784.
Genre/form	Hymns.

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