Sermon – July 4th – 1794
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Preached by Joseph Lathrop – 07/04/1794 Dr. Joseph Lathrop Joseph Lathrop, a New England clergyman, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on October 20, 1731. He graduated from Yale in 1754, and was ordained as pastor of the Congregational church in West Springfield in 1756 – a church he pastored for over sixty years until his retirement in 1818.