biography
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| lived:
| (1741–1815)
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| biography:
| Universalist clergyman, born in Alton, Hampshire, S England, UK. The son of strict Calvinist parents, he emigrated to the USA (1770) and for two years was an itinerant evangelist preaching a decidedly non-Calvinist doctrine of universal salvation. Considered the founder of Universalism in America, he held pastorates in Gloucester, MA and Boston. He suffered a paralytic stroke in 1809 and spent the last years of his life as an invalid. |
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