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Joseph Stephenson

1728 - 1810 Person Name: Stephenson Hymnal Number: 83 Composer of "MILFORD" in The American Vocalist

John Fawcett

1789 - 1867 Person Name: Fawcett Hymnal Number: 93b Composer of "CHARDON" in The American Vocalist

Jacob French

1754 - 1817 Person Name: French Hymnal Number: 242 Composer of "HEAVENLY VISION" in The American Vocalist

Dalmer

Hymnal Number: 136b Composer of "CARTHAGE" in The American Vocalist

1748 - 1810 Person Name: Cecil Hymnal Number: 232 Composer of "I WILL ARISE" in The American Vocalist Cecil, Richard, M.A., born in London, Nov. 8, 1748, and educated at Queen's Coll., Oxford. Ordained deacon in 1776, and priest in 1777. He became the Vicar of two churches near Lewes shortly after; chaplain of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, 1780; and Vicar of Chobham and Bisley, 1800. He died in 1810. His poem:— Cease here longer to detain me. Desiring Heaven. In 9 stanzas of 4 lines, is supposed to be addressed by a dying infant to his mother. It was written for his wife on the death of a child “only one month old, being removed at daybreak, whose countenance at the time of departure was most heavenly." It was first published in Mrs. Cecil's Memoir of him, prefixed to his Remains, 1811, and is headed “Let me go, for the day breaketh." In the American hymn-books it is usually abbreviated, as in the Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others. [William T. Brooke] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Arnold

1720 - 1792 Person Name: J. Arnold Hymnal Number: 119a Composer of "GUILFORD" in The American Vocalist

Thomas Dupuis

1733 - 1796 Person Name: Dr. Dupuis Hymnal Number: 74b Composer of "HARTLAND" in The American Vocalist

Isaac Tucker

Person Name: Tucker Hymnal Number: 89b Composer of "CALRENDON" in The American Vocalist

S. Hubbard

Hymnal Number: 205 Composer of "KEDRON" in The American Vocalist Dr Stephen Grosvenor Hubbard MD USA 1816-1904. He compiled songbooks, some with William McDonald, President of Emmaus Bible College, also a teacher of the Plymouth Brethren. We suspect this same Hubbard authored and presented a biography of the life and writings of Dr Henry Bronson to the New Haven Colony Historical Society in 1895. Song books created included: “Hymns and tunes designed for social devotion” (1842), “Songs of Canaan”, “Musical gems”, Temperance melodies”, “The new temperance melodist”and “The Wesleyan sacred harp” (1856). “A collection of choice tunes and hymns for prayer class, and camp meetings, choirs, and congregational singing”. McDonald, himself, published over 84 books, including “Believers Bible Commentary”. John Perry