Leonard Bacon (1802-1881)

Bacon, Leonard. Four Commemorative Discourses . . . with Extracts from the Records of the First Ecclesiastical Society and First Church. New Haven: Stafford, 1886. Per­sonal reminiscences.

—Leonard Bacon: Pastor of the First Church of New Haven. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1882. Either anonymous or written by Bacon himself. Bradley, Franklin S. "The Friendship of a Theologian: Recollections of Leonard Bacon . . . ." Connecticut Magazine 11(1907)3. The author knew Bacon well for many years.

Sehr, Timothy J. "Leonard Bacon and the Myth of the Good Slaveholder." New England Quarterly 49(1976)2:194. Holding slaves was no sin; mistreating them was.