He 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. He was noted as a controversialist. He published
Infant Baptism Defended (1759), and
Election Sermons (1781). ==Notes==