Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803 (Personal Name)

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His An enquiry concerning the promises of the Gospel, 1765: t.p. (Samuel Hopkins)

LC in RLIN, 5/17/85 (hdg.: Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803)

A discourse upon the slave-trade, and the slavery of the Africans, 1793 title page (Samuel Hopkins, D.D., Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newport; member of the Providence Society for Abolishing the Slave-Trade)

Wikipedia, September 13, 2016 (Samuel Hopkins; born September 17, 1721, Waterbury, Connecticut; died December 20, 1803; American Congregationalist theologian; named after his uncle Samuel Hopkins (1693-1755); graduated from Yale College, 1741; studied divinity in Northampton, Mass.; preached at First Congregational Church in Newport; during the british occupation of Newport, preached also in Massachusetts and Connecticut; originally a slaveholder, Hopkins was one of the first Congregationalist ministers to denounce slavery)