- Lucius Bolles
Lucius Bolles, D.D., S.T.D., (September 25, 1779 - January 5, 1844), sixth child of Rev. David Bolles, was born at Ashford, Connecticut. He was an 1801 graduate of
Brown University and a student of theology three years with Dr.Samuel Stillman , ofBoston, Massachusetts . He served more than 22 years as pastor of the First Baptist Church ofSalem, Massachusetts , and Corresponding Secretary of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions fourteen years. He was one of the founders ofNewton Theological Institution . [Hovey, Alvah, Historical Address Delivered at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Newton Theological Institution, June 8, 1875 (Boston, 1875)]When American foreign missionary
Adoniram Judson arrived inBurma after a change of views concerning baptism while aboard ship from the United States, he wrote to the Baptist church in Salem seeking financial support from Baptists and Bolles organized a fundraising effort for him.He married his cousin Lydia, daughter of Deacon John Bolles of Hartford, Connecticut, on September 8, 1805, and had four children: (1) Lucius Stillman Bolles, pastor of the Baptist Church at Lynn, Massachusetts; (2) John E. Bolles; (3) William C. Bolles; and (4) Lydia A. Bolles. He died in Boston in 1844.
References
Publications
*Sermon at the Dedication of the First Baptist Meeting-house, Salem [Massachusetts] , January 1, 1806 (Boston, 1806)
*Discourse before the Members of the Salem Female Charitable Society, September 27, 1810 (Salem, 1810)
*Sermon at Newburyport December 9, 1818, at the Ordination of the Rev. Hosea Wheeler [over] the Baptist Church (Newburyport, 1819)External links
* [http://www.fbcsalemma.org/heritage.htm First Baptist Church, Salem, Massachusetts, History]
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