Francis William Pitt Greenwood by Joshua Henshaw Hayward

__NOTOC__ Francis William Pitt Greenwood (February 5, 1797 - August 2, 1843) was a Unitarian minister of

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. Born in Boston, Greenwood graduated from

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in 1814, and after studying theology under

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, he became pastor of New South Church in October, 1818. He left this position after about a year, following a sudden illness of "bleeding from the lungs," and spent nearly two years in England. After returning to the United States in 1821, he lived for a time in

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, where he preached in the pulpit of the Unitarian Church led by his friend, Rev. Jared Sparks and married Maria Goodwin of Baltimore, by whom they had one son. In the summer of 1824, he returned to Boston to become associate minister of

, serving under his mentor, James Freeman, of whom he would later write his biography. In 1827, following Freeman's death, Greenwood revised the church's liturgy and later prepared a popular hymnbook, which was adopted by many other churches. During his tenure, he established a Sunday School for children of the parish. His pastorate was interrupted various times by a recurrence of illness, and in 1837, he traveled to Cuba on the advice of doctors. He wrote for and edited the ''

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'' throughout the 1820s and 1830s,. His 1826 series, "Letters on Missions," was especially noted as being controversial for its severity in tone. Greenwood's writings were also published in the '' Boston Journal of Natural History'' and '' The Token and Atlantic Souvenir''. He preached his last sermon on May 22, 1842, at a church in

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and died August 2, 1843, at the age of 46, due to his lingering illness. His sermons were published in 1844 in two volumes by his friend a parishioner, former Boston Mayor Samuel A. Eliot.

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: formerly governor of Massachusetts. Preached at King's Chapel, Boston, March 11, 1827. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1827.
Lives of the twelve apostles
1828.
Prayer for the Sick: A Sermon Preached at King's Chapel, Boston, on Thursday, August 9, 1932, Being the Fast Day Appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts, On Account of the Appearance of Cholera in the United States.
Boston: L.C. Bowles, 1832.
A History of King's Chapel
in Boston. 1833. * Memoir of the Rev. James Freeman. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 1836. * Spring
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir
1838. * A Description of the principal fruits of Cuba. Boston Journal of Natural History, Volume 2. 1839. * The Sea. The Boston Book, Volume 3. Boston: Light and Horton, 1841.
Sermons to Children
Boston: James Munroe, 1841. * The Spirit's Song of Consolation. American common-place book of poetry. 1841.
Sermons of the Rev. F.W.P. Greenwood, in Two Volumes. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1844.2nd ed.
1835
3rd ed.
1846.

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Greenwood, F. W. P. (Francis William Pitt) 1797-1843
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwood, Francis William 19th-century Unitarian clergy 1797 births 1843 deaths Place of death missing Clergy from Boston 19th-century American people American Unitarians American Unitarian clergy Harvard College alumni 19th-century American clergy

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