Gad Hitchcock

Gad Hitchcock (1718–1803) was a prominent New England Congregationalist minister whose theological writings and sermons significantly shaped late eighteenth-century American Protestant thought during the Revolutionary and early Federal periods. His 1777 sermon on Plymouth Thanksgiving exemplifies his engagement with themes of divine providence, national identity, and the theological justification of American independence. Hitchcock's work represents the crucial intersection of Puritan intellectual tradition and emerging American religious nationalism in the decades following the Revolution.