Norwood, Abraham. The Pilgrimage of a Pilgrim, for Forty Years, as he journeyed to, and through, and from, the Partialist Church, into and through Sixteen Years' Experience in the Universalist Ministry - and not done yet. Boston: Published by the Pilgrim for the Purchaser, 1849. Third Edition. [10689]
Faded cloth, some fraying at the spine ends and corner tips, 6 x 4 inches, tight. 324 generally clean pp., infrequent foxing. With the bookplate of Lt. Col. W.M. Pratt, Military Intelligence, U.S. Army Res. Good. Hardcover.
Abraham Norwood (1806-1880), b. Gloucester, Mass.; d. Meriden, Conn. He was a Universalist minister, and also a member of the Odd Fellows, for there are two hymns for Oddfellow meetings among the poems at the end of the book.
Included in the text is a reprinting of Norwood's tract from 1832, Religious Proscription for Opinion's Sake; containing An Account of the Dealings of the First Congregational Church in Biddeford with the Author; and also Remarks upon some of the Prominent Features of Orthodoxy, originally printed at Saco, Maine.