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The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Vol. XLII - 1911
Published by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
226 West 58th Street, New York

         [p. 29]
         
         (history of the United Church (Congregational,
          New Haven, Conn.)
         
         DR. JONATHAN EDWARDS, D.D., second, was born May 26,
       1745, at Northampton, Mass. When six, his father was
       called to the College of New Jersey as president, Feb.
       16, 1758, and they removed to Princeton, where the son
       was graduated in 1765. He was made tutor there in 1767,
       whence he was called Jan. 5, 1769, to New Haven. He
       married MARY, dau. of the Hon. ELEAZUR PORTER of Hadley,
       Mass., who was drowned in June, 1782; his four children
       were by this marriage. He married second, MERCY, daughter
       of HEZEKIAH SABIN of New Haven, Conn. After his long
       pastorate this this church, he was called in 1795 to
       Colebrook, Conn., and in 1799 he was elected to the
       presidency of Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., where
       he died Aug. 1, 1801.
       
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