AN ANTI-BRITISH SERMON BY THE PRESIDENT OF HARVARD,
DELIVERED A FEW WEEKS AFTER
THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

An election sermon preached by Samuel Langdon, Congregational minister and president of Harvard College, before the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts on May 31, 1775, shortly after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Following the battles, the Congress relocated from Concord to Watertown, just outside Boston, where they remained from April.....