a Presbyterian minister of Welsh extraction, was born at Southampton, L.I., May 24, 1717. He graduated from Yale College in 1737, was ordained by the New York Presbytery, February 9, 1743, pastor at Morristown, N.J., and had great success in his ministry there, which closed with his death, September 17, 1794. In 1777 general Washington, on one occasion, communed with his congregation while in the vicinity. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 3: 16. (W.P.S.)