John Lathrop was a congregationalist minister in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

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, during the revolutionary

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 and early republic

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 periods.

He served as minister of the Second Church, Boston

Second Church, Boston

The Second Church in Boston, Massachusetts was first a congregational church, and then beginning in 1802, a unitarian church. The congregation occupied a number of successive locations around town, including North Square, Hanover Street, Copley Square, and the Fenway. Ministers included Increase...

, 1768-1816, when it was located in the North End -- first on North Square

North Square (Boston, Massachusetts)

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, and after 1779, on Hanover Street. In 1776, during the British occupation of Boston, the Second Church was burnt for firewood by British soldiers. Lathrop was considered a patriot.

Further reading

Works by Lathrop

• Innocent blood crying to God from the streets of Boston. A sermon occasioned by the horrid murder of Messieurs Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Crispus Attucks, with Patrick Carr
  Boston Massacre
  The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support...
  
  , since dead, and Christopher Monk, judged irrecoverable, and several other badly wounded, by a party of troops under the command of Captain Preston: on the fifth of March, 1770. And preached the Lord's-day following. Boston, Re-printed and sold by Edes and Gill, Opposite the New Court-House in Queen-Street
  Court Street (Boston, Massachusetts)
  Court Street is located in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to 1788, it was called Prison Lane and then Queen Street . In the 19th century it extended beyond its current length, to Bowdoin Square. In the 1960s most of Court Street was demolished to make way for the...
  
  , 1771.
• A discourse, preached on March the fifth, 1778. Boston: Draper & Folsom
  Draper & Folsom
  Draper & Folsom were publishers in Boston, Massachusetts during the American revolution. They printed works by William Billings, John Lathrop, and others. Around 1778, Edward Draper and John West Folsom formed a partnership as printers. They began working "at their printing-office, near the Lamb...
  
  , 1778.
• A discourse, in two parts, preached at the commencement of the nineteenth century. Boston : Printed by E. Lincoln for John West, 1801.
• A discourse delivered in the church in Hollis Street
  Hollis Street Church
  The Hollis Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, was a Congregational and Unitarian church. It merged with the South Congregational Society of Boston in 1887.- 1732-1825 :...
  
  , April 13, 1808, at the interment of the Rev. Samuel West, D.D., late pastor of said church. Boston : Printed by Belcher and Armstrong, 1808.
• Peace and war, in relation to the United States of America: a discourse, delivered in Boston, on the day of public thanksgiving in the state of Massachusetts, November 21, 1811. Boston : J.W. Burditt, 1811.
• A discourse, delivered in Boston, April 13, 1815 : the day of thanksgiving appointed by the president of the United States, in consequence of the peace. Boston : J.W. Burditt, 1815.
• A compendious history of the late war : containing an account of all the important battles, and many of the smaller actions, between the American, and the British forces, and Indians ... Boston : J.W. Burditt, 1815.

Works about Lathrop

• Chandler Robbins. A history of the Second Church, or Old North, in Boston: to which is added a History of the New Brick Church. Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1852.
• James A. Levernier. Phillis Wheatley
  Phillis Wheatley
  Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet and first African-American woman whose writings were published. Born in Gambia, Senegal, she was sold into slavery at age seven...
  
  and the New England Clergy. Early American Literature, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1991), pp. 21-38.
• Marc M. Arkin. The Force of Ancient Manners: Federalist Politics and the Unitarian Controversy Revisited. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Winter, 2002), pp. 575-610.

External links

• Harvard Business School. Account book of the Rev. John Lathrop, 1780-1802