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A Sermon, Containing a General History of the Town of East-Hmpton, (L.I.); From Its First Settlement to the Present Time

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Lyman Beecher's 1806 sermon at East-Hampton recounts the town's founding, purchase from Native Americans, and the settlers' piety, civil liberties, and duty to transmit history to posterity.
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Lyman Beecher was a prominent American Presbyterian minister, revivalist leader, and moral reformer who played a key role in the Second Great Awakening and helped found influential institutions including the American Temperance Society and the Lane Theological Seminary. He was widely known for his powerful preaching, prolific writings on theology and social issues, and for being the patriarch of a notable family including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.

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