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Sale 2708 - Lot 154

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(OHIO.) Isaac Story. A Sermon Preached . . . at the Ordination of the Rev. Daniel Story, to the Pastoral Care of the Church in Marietta. [3]-43 pages. 8vo, disbound; lacking half-title, minor wear to title page, faint dampstaining to early leaves. Salem, MA: Thomas C. Cushing, 1798
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The ordination of Daniel Story (1756-1804), the first minister of the pioneer settlement of Marietta, Ohio. The sermon was delivered by his brother Isaac Story of Marblehead, MA; they were both uncles of important Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story.

In the rear is the charge read to Story by early Ohio missionary and politician Manasseh Cutler, who discusses the Marietta earthworks archaeological site and the local American Indians at length, and who declares that Story was now "the first regularly ordained and settled minister of the congregational denomination in that extensive country west of the Allegheny mountains" (pages 32-36). Evans 34609; Sabin 92276; Thomson, Ohio 1112. None traced at auction since 1921.

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