American educator, born in County Armagh, Ireland, in 1715; arrived in the United States in 1734. He studied for the ministry, was licensed to preach in 1740, and ordained two years later, at New Brunswick, NJ. He went to New Haven, CT, and in 1743 began to conduct revival services, despite the prohibition against itinerant preaching in the parishes of settled ministers, and was seized and conveyed outside the limits of the colony. He established an academy at Nottingham, MD; and in 1761 became president of the College of New Jersey, at Princeton. He published some sermons and theological treatises, and edited the sermons of his predecessor, President Davies. He died at Philadelphia on the 17th of July 1766.
