Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 02 · The Sound of Congregational Song · Page 14 in print
The Bay Psalm Book
In 1638 the Reverend Jose Glover sailed from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with a printing press. He died on the voyage, and his widow Elizabeth set up the press.
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Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the book was printed.
Dorchester
Richard Mather’s Massachusetts church.
Errata
Printed list of corrections.
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Harvard
Harvard College, whose first president Dunster revised the book.
Hebrew
Language the psalms were newly translated from.
Henry Dunster
Harvard president who revised the 1651 edition.
John Cotton
Boston minister on the translating committee.
John Eliot
Roxbury minister and translator.
Jose Glover
Minister who shipped the press but died at sea.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Colony. The colony behind the ‘Bay’ name.
Matthew Daye
Stephen Daye’s son, possibly the actual printer.
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Richard Lyon
Co-reviser of the 1651 edition.
Richard Mather
Dorchester minister and translator.
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Roxbury
Town of Eliot’s and Weld’s church.
Stephen Daye
Locksmith who ran the Cambridge press.
Sources
- Online Exhibition - First Among Many: The Bay Psalm Book and Early Moments in American PrintingLibrary of Congress
- John Eliot (missionary)Wikipedia
- Bay Psalm BookWikipedia
- Henry DunsterWikipedia
- Bay Psalm BookUC Berkeley School of Information (course page)