American theologian, born at Hebron, CT, on the 19th of December 1735; graduated at Yale in 1759; was minister of the Congregational church at North Haven from 1760 until his death; was a volunteer soldier and chaplain in the War of the Revolution. He was the author of Twelve Discourses on the Divine Origin of the Holy Scriptures (1790); Complete History of Connecticut, 1630–1713 (1797); and General History of the United States of America, 1492–1792 (vol. 1, 1810). He died at Hebron on the 2nd of February 1820.
