Having probably grown up a sun-worshipper, PW
was baptised a Christian by the Rev. Samuel Cooper
at the Old South Church in Boston; she was old enough to have made this decision for herself...
Performance of text
Phillis Wheatley
At the funeral of the Rev. Samuel Cooper
, an elegy by Phillis Peters (formerly PW
) was performed to music by William Billings
as a funeral anthem: An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of...
