Author: PLUMMER, Frederick
Biography:
PLUMMER, Frederick (1787-1854: ancestry.com)
Plummer was raised in a devout household in Haverhill MA, one of several children of Mary and Silas Plummer--three of whom became clergymen. He attended the town schools but in 1806 he experienced a call to preach the gospel, and took to the road. As an itinerant preacher, Elder Plummer is said to have converted "multitudes" and to have sparked religious awakenings at camp meetings in Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York State. He was not affiliated with any established religious denomination but referred to himself as a "Christian" or a "Free Christian." About 1840 he settled in Philadelphia, where he was given the charge of five or six churches and married Catharine Barkloe. They had no children but an adopted daughter named Catherine was present at his deathbed. After the death of his first wife he moved to be pastor of a church in Assonet, a village in Massachusetts, and in 1851 married for a second time. He and Rachel Hathaway had one daughter. He died there of cancer and is buried in Freetown MA. He was the author of a few other works, notably a Defence of Capital Punishment (1842), and the editor of a collection entitled The Christian Psalmist (1840). (ancestry.com 27 June 2020; Henry Swan Dana, History of Woodstock, Vermont [1889] 391-4; Funeral discourse by A. G. Comings, Herald of Gospel Liberty[ Newburyport MA] 10 Aug. 1854) HJ
Other Names:
- F. Plummer