. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ed at Harvard in 1724. Afterbecoming a licensed preacher of the Congregational-ists in 1726, he was ordained deacon and priestin the Church of England by the bishop of Lon-don in 1731, and served as a missionary of the So-ciety fur propagating the gospel. He was rectorof St. Jamess church. New London, from 1732 till1743, and of St. Georges church, Hempstead, L. I.,from 1743 till his death, connecting with his workhere the charge of a school and the care of missionstations both on Long Island and at Fishkill, N. extant publications are a se
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ed at Harvard in 1724. Afterbecoming a licensed preacher of the Congregational-ists in 1726, he was ordained deacon and priestin the Church of England by the bishop of Lon-don in 1731, and served as a missionary of the So-ciety fur propagating the gospel. He was rectorof St. Jamess church. New London, from 1732 till1743, and of St. Georges church, Hempstead, L. I.,from 1743 till his death, connecting with his workhere the charge of a school and the care of missionstations both on Long Island and at Fishkill, N. extant publications are a sermon preached atNew London (1742), and a pamphlet entitled AModest Reply to a Letter from a Gentleman to hisFriend in Dutchess County (New York, 1759).—His son, Samuel, 1st bishop of the diocese of Con-necticut, b. in Groton, Conn., 30 Nov., 1729; d. inNew London, Conn., 25 Feb., 1796, was graduairdat Yale in 1748, was a catechist of the Societyfor propagating the gospel, and a student of the-ology under his father, until 1752, and then for a. , year a student of medicine at the University ofEdinburgh. He was ordained deacon by Dr. JohnThomas, bishop of Lincoln, 21 Dec., 1753. andpriest bv Dr. Richard »Kbaldiston. bishop of Car-lisle, in Lon-don. 23 Dec.,1753. Reservedas a missionaryat New Bruns-wick, , from25 May, rectorof Jamaica, in-cluding Flush-ing and New-town, L. L, 12Jan., 1757, andrector of , West-chester, N. Y.,1 March. he wasprevented fromthe exercise of his ministry by the Whigs, by some of whom hewas at one time seized and imprisoned in New Ha-ven for six weeks. He then retired to the city ofNew York, where he supported himself in part bythe practice of medicine, serving also as chaplainof the kings American regiment under commis-sion of Sir Henry Clinton of 14 Feb., 1778. Hewas particularly obnoxious to the American partyon account of his authorship of the series of pam-phlets signed A. W. Farmer, and entitled FreeThoughts
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