(COMING SOON) Biographical Memoirs of the Late Rev. John Gano

Biographical Memoirs of the Late Rev. John Gano, of Frankfort (Kentucky), formerly of the City of New-York was first published at New-York in 1806, two years after the author’s death. Written principally by himself, it is the account of John Gano (1727–1804), a Baptist minister who was converted among the Baptists of New Jersey and who ministered in that colony, in Virginia and in the Carolinas. He served the Baptist church in the city of New-York until the Revolutionary War dispersed it, acted as chaplain in General Clinton’s brigade, and spent his last years in Kentucky.

Gano composed the narrative in old age at the request of his children. It was seen through the press by his son, Stephen Gano, whose preface is dated Providence, 30 August 1806. The memoirs record his conversion, his itinerant preaching on the frontier, his service with the army at Trenton, in the Hudson Highlands and on the Sullivan expedition, and his removal to Kentucky. They will be of interest to students of Baptist history and of religious life in the Revolutionary era.

This edition reproduces the complete text of the first edition, with the original title page. Appendix I contains the hymns and travel pass preserved among Gano’s papers. Appendix II contains his circular letter on effectual calling, taken from the minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association. Spelling and punctuation have been modernised for the modern reader, and a few evident printer’s errors have been corrected. The wording is otherwise as printed.