Henry Alline

Life

Born: 14 June 1748

Died: 2 February 1784

Biography

Henry Alline, born at Newport, Rhode Island, was an itinerant preacher throughout Maritime Canada and northeastern New England, but is particularly associated with Nova Scotia: the third edition of his Hymns, and Spiritual Songs (Dover: Samuel Bragg Jr., 1797) contains 488 hymns, although the last of one these is not by Alline himself, and is marked 'By B.R.'.

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Settings of text by Henry Alline

• Confidence (Oliver Holden)
• Cyrene (Samuel Holyoke)
• Deliverance (Oliver Holden)
• Edenvale (Samuel Holyoke)
• Now can my soul in God rejoice (J. West)
• Sunbury (Samuel Holyoke)
• Sweden (Samuel Holyoke)
• Vienna (Samuel Holyoke)
• Western (Samuel Holyoke)
• Yarmouth (Hezekiah Moors)
• Yarmouth (Samuel Holyoke)

Publications

• Hymns, and Spiritual Songs

External links

• Third edition (1797) of Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, at the Internet Archive