biography
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| (1729–96)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, born in Groton, Connecticut, USA. He graduated at Yale in 1748, studied medicine at Edinburgh, and received orders in the Church of England in 1753. In 1757 he became rector of Jamaica, Long Island, and in 1767 of Westchester, NY. Despite imprisonment for his loyalty to Britain through the War of American Independence as a royalist army chaplain, he was elected the first Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1785. |
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