Browse the John Hooker sermons

Rev. John Hooker (1728-1777) originally hailed from Farmington, Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1751. He was ordained as the minister of the First Congregational Church of Northampton in 1753, following the dismissal of the famous Congregationalist Rev. Jonathan Edwards in 1750. He married Sarah Worthington in 1755, and continued as minister at Northampton until he died of smallpox in 1777.

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