Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . nth year;he graduated from Yale College in 1741, and became soimpressed with the preaching of Whitefield and Tennant,that he lived in seclusion for several months, to determine ifhe was a Christian. Having satisfied himself on this point,he was licensed to preach, but continued his studies, underRev. Jonathan Edwards; he was an itinerant preacher for ashort time, but in the winter of 1743 was settled over asociety at what is now Great Barrington, Massachusetts,where he remained for twenty-five years, when he was dis-mi
Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . nth year;he graduated from Yale College in 1741, and became soimpressed with the preaching of Whitefield and Tennant,that he lived in seclusion for several months, to determine ifhe was a Christian. Having satisfied himself on this point,he was licensed to preach, but continued his studies, underRev. Jonathan Edwards; he was an itinerant preacher for ashort time, but in the winter of 1743 was settled over asociety at what is now Great Barrington, Massachusetts,where he remained for twenty-five years, when he was dis-missed, on account of the diminution in the membership ofthe church. His next charge was at Newport, Rhode Island;but his flock being dispersed by the British occupation of thecity during the Revolution, he preached at different points;in 1780 he returned to Newport, where he resided until hisdeath, December 20, 1803. In his latter years, he had a pre-carious living, owing to the loss of membership in his congre-gation. Dr. Hopkins was one of the founders of the Ameri- 288.
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