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Thomas Motherwell Preble (1810–1907) was a Free Will Baptist minister in New Hampshire and a
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preacher. After accepting the teachings of William Miller, Preble was
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from his church. Preble appears to have accepted the seventh-day Sabbath in 1844, possibly from Frederick Wheeler or someone associated with the
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, New Hampshire, church. Preble was the first Millerite to advocate the Sabbath in print. In the Feb. 28, 1845, issue of the ''Hope of Israel'', an Adventist periodical in Portland, Maine, was reprinted in tract form in March, 1845, with the title, ''Tract, Showing That the Seventh Day Should be Observed as the Sabbath.'' This tract led to the conversion of J. N. Andrews and other Adventist families in Paris, Maine, as well as to Joseph Bates. Two years later, however, Preble repudiated the Sabbath and later wrote some articles against the Seventh-Day Sabbath in '' The World's Crisis'' and a book, entitled ''First-Day Sabbath''.


Family History

Preble's great-grandparents were massacred by Natives in 1758 in Woolwich, Maine. Their children, among whom was Preble's grandfather, Ebenezer Preble, Jr., were captured and sold to the French in Quebec, Canada, from where they were later found and brought back by their maternal grandfather. Preble's father, Motherwell Preble, was named after Thomas Motherwell, who married Rebecca Preble, the sister of Ebenezer Preble, Jr. and who was also captured by the Indians.For T.M. Preble's genealogy, se
Descendants of Robert Preble
in which his murdered great-grandfather is person no. 23, his captured grandfather, Ebenezer, Jr., is no. 32, and his father, Motherwell, is no. 42.


See also

*
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* ''The
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'', 1996 ed., has a helpful biographical entry on T. M. Preble. *
Ellen G. White Estate Ellen Gould White (née Harmon; November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was an American woman author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with other Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she wa ...
's ''Legacy of Light'' CD-ROM.


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''A Tract, Showing that the Seventh Day Should be Observed as the Sabbath, Instead of the First Day; “According to the Commandment.”''
by T. M. Preble
''The First-day Sabbath, Clearly Proved by Showing that the Old Covenant, or Ten Commandments, have been Changed, or made Complete, in the Christian Dispensation''
by T. M. Preble, Buchanan, Michigan, W. A. C. P. Association, 1867.
''The Last Tragedy of the Indian Wars: The Preble Massacre at the Kennebec''
by Rev. Henry O. Thayer * {{DEFAULTSORT:Preble, Thomas M. 1810 births 1907 deaths Adventism Millerites People excommunicated by Baptist churches