John Wilson, for thirty-five years pastor of the first church organized in Boston, considered poetry a part of his ministry and had so ready a faculty for putting his devout thoughts into verse that h...
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John Wilson was born on 18 May 1785 in Paisley, near Glasgow, to John Wilson, a wealthy gauze manufacturer, and Margaret Sym Wilson, a woman known for her elegance and extraordinary beauty. Wilson, th...
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John Wilson