Note 532 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

Clark's is appended to a discourse which he delivered on the first anniversary in 1776, and this was reprinted in 1875. It was also reprinted in the Massachusetts Mag., 1794. Emerson's, which makes three pages of an interleaved almanac (which was in the possession of his grandson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, when the fac-simile was made, which is here followed, so far as the first page goes), was first printed by R. W. Emerson in his Historical Discourse in 1835 (republished in 1875), and again in the American Historical Magazine and Literary Record, New Haven, 1836. Other early anniversary sermons add little or nothing to our knowledge; such are Samuel Cooke's The violent destroyed and oppressed delivered (Lexington, 1777, but printed in Boston, 1777), and Philip Payson's sermon, also at Lexington, in 1782. Sermons were preached at Concord from 1776 to 1783; the series is in the Mass. Hist. Society's library. A sermon preached by John Langdon, at Watertown, May 31, 1775, refers to the fight. This is reprinted in J. W. Thornton's Pulpit of the Amer. Revolution.