Pepper, William A. Papers

File

Identifier: RG-1492

Staff Only

Content Description

Sermons and biographical information on William Pepper

Dates

Creation: 1834-1987

Creator

Pepper, William A., 1795-1846 (Person)

Language of Materials

All materials within this collection are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

Biographical / Historical

Reverend William A. Pepper, son of William and Mary Pepper, was born in 1795 in England. He attended Stepney Academy, Stepney Green, Middlesex, which later became Regents Park College. While a ministerial student there, he was called to be pastor of the Melborn Baptist Church, Cambridgeshire. In 1824 he married Elizabeth Ann Scruby of nearby Meldreth. During the following years nine children were born to them. He resigned from the Melborn pastorate in late 1833, and in April 1834, the family sailed for the United States, settling in Vernon, Oneida County, New York. He was pastor of the Vernon Baptist Church from 1834 to 1836. Apparently he left the active ministry at that time, for either health or economic reasons, as the 1840 census lists his occupation as that of manufacturer-tradesman . His death occured in 1846, the interment being in the Vernon Village cemetery.

This biography was written by Rev. Clayton A. Pepper, the great-grandson of Rev. William A. Pepper, on March 29 1986.

Extent

.3 Linear Feet (One letter manuscript box)

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gifts of Clayton A. Pepper, 1986, and Alta P. Pepper, 1987

Related Materials

See also the Clatyon A. Pepper Papers, RG 1257

File Plan

Autobiography of Clayton A. Pepper (great grandson of William) obituary and 1986 memorial service

Sg. Ps 15 V Blessed is the People that Know Dec 10 1835 Vernon NY Thanksgiving (photocopy and transcript)

Dedication, biography William Pepper, sermons list, Editor’s notes

Photographs Melbourn Church, Clayton Pepper 1985 and Westport Federated Church

Sermons ca. 1835 to 1836

Sermon Acts 15:36 to 40, original and transcript

Sermon Luke 14:22 and 23, original and transcript

Sermon Ecclesiastes 9:13 to 16, original and transcript

Sermons Isaiah 9:3 Jan 7.11, 1835 Vernon, NY; Corinthians 8:9 Jul 1833 Vernon NY, Jun 7.11 1835; Matthew 8:19 Jul 1833 Vernon NY, Jun 7.11 1835; Proverbs 3:29 May 10 1835 Vernon NY; First Corinthians 3:11 Nov 1 1835, originals and transcripts

Sermons Job 14:10, Oct 1833 Melbourn; Matthew 9:36 Feb 7 1836 Vernon NY; Hebrews 3:14 Feb 22 1835 Vernon NY; Luke 24:50 - 51 V Nov 1829 Melbourn; 1 Samuel 16:7 (photocopies)

Volume - John Butterworth’s Concordance, published 1812