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The Annals of the American Pulpit, a nine-volume series (an additional volume was planned but not completed) edited by William Buell Sprague, is a treasure that we have written about before. Sprague was a prolific writer and compiler of valuable historical information and mementos. His own original research for the biographical sketches which he produced is very significant and valuable. In addition to his biographical writings, he solicited biographical sketches from living writers who knew the deceased ministers he was writing about and, additionally, borrowed from published biographical literature as well.
As one reads the Presbyterian volumes (3, 4 and 9), one begins to take note of the personal connections between the leading ministers of the early American Presbyterianism. So many of Sprague’s subjects and contributors are to be found here at Log College Press. The following is an attempt to map out these particular LCP connections. As the site continues to grow, more connections are likely to be made, but this may serve as a useful reference to see who on LCP was written about within or contributed to the creation of William Sprague’s Annals.
Volume 3 (Presbyterian)
subject: Francis Makemie
subject: Jonathan Dickinson
subject: William Tennent, Sr. - contributor: George Whitefield
subject: Gilbert Tennent - contributor: Samuel Finley
subject: John Tennent - contributor: Gilbert Tennent
subject: William Tennent, Jr. - contributor: Elias Boudinot IV
subject: Samuel Jacob Blair - contributors: Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley
subject Aaron Burr, Sr.
subject: Francis Alison - contributor: John Ewing
subject: William Robinson - contributor: Samuel Davies, Archibald Alexander
subject: Samuel Finley
subject: David Brainerd - contributor: Jonathan Edwards
subject: Charles Clinton Beatty
subject: David Bostwick
subject: John Rodgers - contributor: Samuel Miller
subject: Samuel Davies - contributor: Samuel Finley
subject: Robert Smith
subject: Elihu Spencer - contributor: Samuel Miller
subject: Matthew Wilson - contributor: Samuel Miller
subject: George Duffield II - contributor: George Duffield V
subject: Samson Occum
subject: Alexander MacWhorter
subject: John Strain - contributors: Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge
subject: John Ewing - contributor: Samuel Miller
subject: John Joachim Zubly
subject: James Caldwell - contributor: Nicholas Murray
subject: Azel Roe - contributor: John McDowell
subject: James Waddel - contributors: William Wirt, Archibald Alexander
subject: David Rice
subject: William Tennent III
subject: John Witherspoon - contributor: Ashbel Green
subject: Hezekiah James Balch
subject: Thomas Reese - contributor: David Ramsay
subject: Samuel Stanhope Smith - contributor: Philip Lindsley
subject: Samuel Eusebius McCorkle
subject: William Graham - contributor: Archibald Alexander
subject: John McKnight - contributor: George Duffield V
subject: John Linn - contributor: Robert Baird
subject: Samuel Doak
subject: John Blair Smith - contributor: William Hill
subject: James Dunlap - contributor: Robert Baird
subject: Moses Hoge
subject: Charles Nisbet - contributor: Samuel Miller
subject: Aaron Woolworth - contributor: Lyman Beecher
subject: Ashbel Green - contributors: Jacob Jones Janeway, Nicholas Murray
subject: Samuel Miller - contributor: Nicholas Murray
subject: Archibald Alexander - contributors: John Hall, Henry Augustus Boardman
Volume 4 (Presbyterian)
subject: John Mitchell Mason
subject: Edward Dorr Griffin - contributor: Nicholas Murray
subject: George Buist
subject: George Addison Baxter - contributor: John Leyburn
subject: Conrad Speece - contributor: William Hill
subject: Robert Hamilton Bishop
subject: John Holt Rice - contributors: James Waddel Alexander, Benjamin Mosby Smith
subject: Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1781-1847) - contributor: Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902)
subject: James Patriot Wilson, Sr. - contributor: John Hall
subject: Uzal Ogden - contributor: John McDowell
subject: William Shields Reid - contributor: Clement Read Vaughn
subject: Philip Lindsley - contributor: John Maclean, Jr.
subject: Samuel Davies Hoge - contributor: Moses Drury Hoge
subject: Philip Melancthon Whelpley - contributor: Gardiner Spring
subject: James Gallaher - contributor: Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
subject: Ichabod Smith Spencer - contributor: Gardiner Spring
subject: Albert Baldwin Dod - contributor: Charles Hodge
subject: Samuel Gover Winchester - contributor: William Morrison Engles
subject: William Mayo Atkinson - contributors: Charles Hodge, William Swan Plumer
subject: Nicholas Murray
subject: Francis Smith Sampson - contributor: Robert Lewis Dabney
subject: William Cowper Scott - contributor: Clement Read Vaughn
Volume 9 (Associate, Associate Reformed, Reformed Presbyterian)
subject: William Marshall
subject: John Anderson
subject: Robert Annan
subject: Alexander Proudfit
subject; James McKinney - contributors: Gilbert McMaster, Samuel Brown Wylie
subject: Alexander McLeod - contributors: Samuel Brown Wylie, John Black, Sr., Samuel Miller
subject: John Black, Sr. - contributor: John Neill McLeod
subject: Samuel Brown Wylie
subject: James Renwick Willson - contributor: James McLeod Willson
subject: Gilbert McMaster
subject: John Reily - contributor: Samuel Wylie
subject: Robert Wallace - contributor: Thomas Sproull
subject: John Cannon - contributor: Thomas Sproull
subject: Robert Gibson - contributor: David Scott
subject: James Blackwood - contributor: Thomas Sproull
subject: Moses Roney - contributor: Samuel Oliver Wylie
subject: Hugh Walkinshaw - contributor: Thomas Sproull