an American minister of the Congregational Church, was born at Boston, Mass., in 1751; was educated at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1776; was ordained minister of the Congregational Church in Salem, Mass., in 1779, and retained that post until his death in 1836. He published, Fast Sermon (Salem, 1798): — Sermons before a Charitable Society (1806): — Sermon on the Death of Dr. Barnard (1814): — Sermon before the Bible Society (1816). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 8:128 sq.; and for other references, Allibone, Dict. Brit. and Amer. Auth. s.v.