Moses Mather

Moses Mather (23 February 1719 in Lyme, Connecticut  21 September 1806[1] in Darien, Connecticut), was a Connecticut clergyman.

Biography

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.[2]

He was noted as a controversialist. He published Infant Baptism Defended (1759), and Election Sermons (1781).[2]

Notes

  1. "Moses Mather". ancestry.com. ancestry.com. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 Wilson & Fiske 1900, p. 251.

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