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Early Unitarian Minister's Records

 

(MASSACHUSETTS). (VERMONT). BUGBEE, AURIN. Unitarian Minister?��s Marriage records 1832-1853. 125 pp. Guilford, Windham County, Vt. 1832-1836, 16 pp. Charlton, Worcester County, Mass. 1837-1853. 87 pp., plus some scrap publishments. Sermons, speeches, most 1831. 22 pp. Contemp. calf, side pockets. Ink. Covers lightly worn, pages browned. Overall very good, bright and legible. $750.00

 

    Original hand written marriage records from a Unitarian minister who preached in Guilford, Vermont, and later in Charlton, Massachusetts. Born in�?1808 in Pomfret, Vermont, of Abial and Mary (Hewitt) Bugbee, Rev. Aurin Bugbee married Deborah Barnes Gooding, and died in Boston in 1859.

Marriage records are detailed and include the residence of each individual, parents, date, and sometimes occupation, age, whether first marriage, and place of birth. Bugbee?��s five essays or sermons, written during the formative period of Vermont Unitarianism, include Winds and Tempest, Reflections on Oneself, the Shortness and Uncertainty of Life, Self Knowledge. His ?��To Deborah on the Subject Of Religion?���? quotes Dr. Paley [William Paley 1743-1805] several times and is signed ?��Such Deborah; Upon this subject, are the views, and such the convictions of Aurin Bugbee?��.

During the 1820s and 30s Universalists were engaged in a bitter controversy between the "ultra" or "death and glory" Universalists, led by the elder Hosea Ballou, and the "Restorationists," who believed in limited future punishment.