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Author: Macomber, Job

Biography:

MACOMBER, Job (1737-1821: Hollis)

Macomber appears to have published only one poem (celebrating the Fourth of July) when he was just short of sixty, but it was in a fifth edition twenty years later. He appears first in the historical record as the son of a Congregational deacon in Middleborough MA who (son, not father) had joined the First Baptist church in 1772 and become a Baptist minister. He was sent to Maine to assess the potential for new churches in the early 1780s and then appointed pastor to a congregation in Bowdoinham ME in 1784. In 1787 he established the first Baptist Association of Maine there; by 1797, it had grown to include 26 churches. He married Catherine Pratt about 1785; they had five children. (ancestry.com 3 Jan. 2019; Thomas Armitage, A History of the Baptists [1890])

 

Books written (5):

A Poem, Delivered in Bowdoinham, to a Respectable Audience, on the Fourth of July, 1806 . . . ..

Augusta Kennebec [ME]: printed by Peter Edes, 1806

A Poem, Delivered in Bowdoinham, to a Respectable Audience, on the Fourth of July, 1806 . . . ..

3rd edn. Exeter [NH]: J. Richardson, 1814

A Poem, Delivered in Bowdoinham, to a Respectable Audience, on the Fourth of July, 1806 . . . ..

4th edn. Exeter [NH]: Josiah Richardson, 1819

A Poem, Delivered in Bowdoinham, to a Respectable Audience, on the Fourth of July, 1806. It being the Anniversary of American Independence.

3rd edn. Belfast [ME]: printed for the publisher, 1826

A Poem Delivered in Bowdoinham to a Respectable Audience, on the Fourth of July, 1806. It being the Anniversary of American Independence.

5th edn. Exeter [NH]: printed for Josiah Richardson, 1826