William Emerson Sr. (31 May 1743, 30 October 1776) was an American

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minister. He was the father of William Emerson Jr. and

Mary Moody Emerson Mary Moody Emerson (August 23, 1774May 1, 1863) was an American letter writer and diarist. She was known not only as her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson's "earliest and best teacher", but also as a "spirited and original genius in her own right". Ralph ...

, and grandfather of

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionism, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalism, Transcendentalist movement of th ...

. Emerson Sr. served as chaplain of the

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and chaplain of the

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* Emerson, William Sr. Clergy in the American Revolution Continental Army officers from Massachusetts Emerson, William Sr. Year of birth unknown American people of English descent 1743 births People from Malden, Massachusetts Religious leaders from Massachusetts {{US-Christian-clergy-stub

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