Stephen Burroughs's sermon : delivered in 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, and delivered to them the following sermon, on the occasion

Stephen Burroughs's sermon : delivered in 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, 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], Printed to sell, 1800.
Description	8 pages ; 18 cm (4to)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787--Anecdotes. American wit and humor.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49585. ^A478749
General note	Caption title: The hay-mow sermon, &c.
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.
General note	"The hymn."--p. 7-8.
General note	Not in Evans or Bristol.
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. 49585).
Genre/form	Satires.
Genre/form	Sermons 1784.
Genre/form	Hymns.

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