(MASSACHUSETTS) Sharp Daniel Diary of a Baptist pastor in Bo

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Sharp, Daniel. Diary of a Baptist pastor in Boston. 122 manuscript diary pages plus 3 pages of accounts. 12mo, original soft calf, minor wear; 1846 gift inscription on front free endpaper from a friend. Boston and elsewhere, 1847

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The Rev. Daniel Sharp (1783-1853) was longtime pastor of the Third Baptist Church on Charles Street in Boston. His diary records an active schedule of sermons at his own church and elsewhere. Several entries in February and March discuss his involvement in a Baptist committee to produce an anti-slavery circular. He also helped raise money for Ireland, where the Great Famine was raging, helping to send the USS Jamestown on a relief mission in March. Many Irish immigrants were then pouring into Boston, which Sharp noted in passing: "Gave a poor Irish woman $3.00" (10 June). He also served on Harvard College's Board of Overseers. Sharp was an important religious leader at an interesting junction in Boston's history.