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Coverage Dates:1641-1763
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Benjamin Colman's papers are primarily concerned with his ministerial career, especially his connection with Boston's Brattle Street Church and his work among Indians on behalf of The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent and The Scottish Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge.
His correspondents included Jonathan Belcher, Cotton and Increase Mather, and Jonathan Edwards.
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