[Lettersheet] — FEDERAL STREET CHURCH

Boston: , (n. d.). Ca 1860s. Date from listed pastors, Gannett pastor until 1871. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Single sheet, folded once vertically, to form 4 pages. Upper left side of sheet with a large image of the church at top, underneath a short history of the church, it's pastors [Ezra Gannett listed as "present pastor"] & architecture of the building. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8" The Federal Street Church (established 1729) was a congregational Unitarian church in Boston, Massachusetts. Organized in 1727, the originally Presbyterian congregation changed in 1786 to "Congregationalism", then adopted the liberal theology of its fifth Senior Minister, William Ellery Channing, (1780-1842). For most of the 18th century the church was known as the Long Lane Meeting-House. In 1788, state leaders met in the relatively spacious building to determine Massachusetts' ratification of the United States Constitution. Thereafter the church renamed itself the Federal Street Church in honor of the event.[1] In 1803, it called Channing as its minister who defined "Unitarian Christianity" and launched the Unitarian movement, making the Federal Street Church one of the first to define itself as Unitarian." [Wiki]. Unused. Hint of age-toning. Some penciled dealer notes to bottom of page 4. A VG+ coopy.