Amos Pilsbury

Life

Born: 15 October 1772, Newbury, Massachusetts

Died: 19 October 1812, Charleston, South Carolina

Biography

Amos Pilsbury was a silversmith, schoolteacher, and a clerk in the Presbyterian Church. In 1799 he compiled United States Sacred Harmony.

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List of choral works

Autumn Cambridge Canaan Charleston Chesterfield Dartmouth Dover Edson Franklin Guilford Hadley Hamburgh Haverhill Judea Kedron Kingston Madison Massachusetts

Middlesex Moment's Thought Morning Mount Calvary Mount Moriah Orangeburgh Petition Pinckney Street Portland Potomac Psalm 112 Rhode Island Rockingham Salem South Carolina Trenton Triumph

 
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Publications

• Pilsbury, Amos. 1799. The United States’ Sacred Harmony. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 224 pp.