Misplaced Pages

Moses Mather (23 February 1719 in Lyme, Connecticut – 21 September 1806 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.

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

Notes

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

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Mather, Moses" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. 4. New York: D. Appleton. p. 251.

This article about a member of the Christian clergy in the United States is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1719 births
• 1806 deaths
• American Congregationalist ministers
• Yale University alumni
• People from Lyme, Connecticut
• People from colonial Connecticut
• Clergy in the American Revolution
• Patriots in the American Revolution
• American Christian clergy stubs