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Samuel Willard, 1640-1707: preacher of orthodoxy in an era of change
Samuel Willard, the son of a military and political leader, and destined to become one of the most generation of New England Puritans, was born in 1640 at Concord, Massachussetts. Trained in orthodoxy at Harvard Colleger, he graduated in 1659, and was the only member of his class to go on for an M.A. degree. He served two churches ( Groton and Boston's South Church), played a leading role in the Reforming Synod of 1679, and at the end of his life was acting president of Harvard.
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