Dalbey, J., Jr.; Peat, J. B. Sacred Melodeon: A Selection of Revival Hymns. Cincinnati: 1848. Improved and Enlarged Edition. [11099]
Full leather, front board detached, rear joint cracked, three pieces of cello tape on the spine, 11 x 7 cm (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches). 320 pages text is complete; foxing and some old light stains. Fair. Hardcover.
246 hymn selections, words only, no music; and an index of first lines.
Joel Darbey, Jr. (1810-1869), b. Greene Co., Ohio; d. St. Charles Co., Missouri. His father was a Methodist Episcopal local minister whose four sons entered the Methodist ministry and three daughters became minister's wives. The elder Darbey left the ME Church into what became the Methodist Protestant one, and his family followed. Joel Jr. was a Methodist Episcopal minister (1828-1829), became a Methodist Protestant minister on trial (1829), a Methodist Protestant Deacon (1830), and a Methodist Protestant minister (Elder) in 1832, in which denomination he remained for the rest of his life. At the time this hymnal was compiled he was the pastor of the George Street Methodist Protestant Church in Cincinnati. - thanks to Robert Vaughn of baptistsearch.blogspot for help in this research.
We think that the second compiler is this fellow: J. B. Peat (1816-1876), b. England, d. Red Bluff, California. He was an orphan at eight years of age, and while still very young traveled to the United States, where he became a Baptist preacher in Iowa and the American West. He was the author of several books defending Baptist principles. See Cathcart.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
