This arrangement of Nahum Tate's carol, "While shepherds watched their flocks by night," was published in 1761, probably in Philadelphia, by the Rev. James Lyon, A.B. (1735-1794), a Presbyterian minister successively in Philadelphia, Nova Scotia and Maine. It is the earliest occurrence of this carol that I can find in the North American Colonies.
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"The Annunciation to the Shepherds," by Govert Flinck (1615–1660) |
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