1785 AMERICAN PSALMS. First Edition of De-Monarchized Version of Watts' Psalms and Hymns Puritan Mollie Townsend

Mollie Townsend

Brief Reflections on the Death of an Infant

an Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem

I gladly introduce the following passages

He knew that a clergyman would feel much delicacy in attempting to disturb an ancient landmark

1785 AMERICAN PSALMS. First Edition of De-Monarchized Version of Watts' Psalms and Hymns Puritan Mollie TownsendA superbly preserved first American revision of Watts' influential Psalms and Hymns. Watts original hymns were often deeply "English," appropriating Israel's monarchical language toward the British Crown in a way that too comfortably blended Church and State for the new Americans. Some other early American attempts at revision would attempt re appropriate the same Psalms that had been reconfigured by Watts toward the British Crown instead to America,