Moses Mather (23 February 1719 in Lyme, Connecticut – 21 September 1806[1] in Darien, Connecticut), was a Connecticut clergyman.
Biography
editHe graduated from Yale University in 1739, and was ordained over the Congregational church in Darien in 1744, which post he held until his death. During the American Revolutionary War, he was several times imprisoned as a patriot. Princeton University gave him the degree of D.D. in 1791.[2]
He was noted as a controversialist. He published Infant Baptism Defended (1759), and Election Sermons (1781).[2]
Notes
edit- ^ "Moses Mather". ancestry.com. ancestry.com. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ a b Wilson & Fiske 1900, p. 251.
References
edit- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. 4. New York: D. Appleton. p. 251.
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