American patriot, born at Norwich, CT, in 1759, for forty years a preacher at Berkley, MA. At the age of sixteen years he joined the Continental army and took part in the battles of Long Island and White Plains. In 1781 he enlisted on a privateer in New London, was captured and confined in the Jersey prison-ship in New York, but escaped a few months later and became a student of theology. He was ordained pastor of the church at Berkley in 1788, where he remained for forty-six years. He published many sermons, and also a narrative of his imprisonment and escape. He died in Berkley, MA, on the 30th of December 1845.
