biography
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| (1727–95)
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| biography:
| Scholar and clergyman, born in North Haven, Connecticut, USA. Besides conducting his Newport, RI ministry (1755–86), he was a theologian and scientist reputed to be the most learned scholar in New England. He wrote the charter founding Rhode Island College (1764) (later Brown University) and taught ecclesiastical history during his tenure as a secularizing president of Yale (1778–95). |
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