Patriot in the Pulpit

Name: Patriot in the Pulpit
Start: 2025-09-06T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-06T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 4 Old Portsmouth Road, Amesbury, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01913

Schedule

Sat Sep 06 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

4 Old Portsmouth Road, Amesbury, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01913 | Amesbury, MA

Come experience a rousing revolutionary sermon at the Rocky Hill Meeting House. In partnership with Essex Heritage, we welcome Donald Friary in living history as the Rev. Oliver Noble to the pulpit. He will deliver a discourse first given in Newburyport on March 8, 1775 “in commemoration of the Massacre at Boston, March the Fifth, 1770," arguing biblical justification to the Patriot cause that would soon lead to the American Revolution. This year marks the 250th anniversary of Noble's sermon.
Donald Friary, a historian of religion and architecture in early America, will appear in character as Mr. Noble. The service will be accompanied by the prayers, readings, and music heard in a New England Congregationalist meetinghouse. Following the service, Friary will discuss and respond to questions about the role of the New England clergy in the American Revolution and the Puritan plain style in the service of worship, the sermon, meetinghouse architecture, and literature.
We encourage participants to bring a pillow or soft pad to sit on.
Parking is available along Old Portsmouth Road, at the Sparhawk School, or at Stop and Shop.
Members $10; Nonmembers $20.