Brown, David (5)
Brown, David (1)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in Scotland. On his arrival in America, he became a member of the Presbytery of New Castle, and took his place in the Synod of Philadelphia in May 1748. He returned to Scotland during the year. See Webster, Hist. of the Presb. Church in America, 1857.
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Brown, David (2)
an English clergyman, was educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge. He became chaplain to the East India Company in 1794, and provost of the College of Fort William in 1800. He died in 1812. A volume of Memorial Sketches, with a selection of his sermons, appeared in 1816, edited by the Reverend Charles Simeon. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
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Brown, David (3)
a. Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in the county of Down, Ireland, in 1760. He entered the itinerant connection in 1794: travelled nine years on Dutchess, Columbia, Croton, New Rochelle, Long Island, Redding, Litchfield, and Cambridge Circuits; and died September 5, 1803. Mr. Brown was a man of unaffected piety, gentleness, and cheerfulness. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1804, page 117.
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Brown, David (4)
a Cherokee Indian who took special interest in the intellectual and spiritual improvement of his tribe, was born about the beginning of the present century. He received his education at a school established at Brainerd by Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury, of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. At this school he became a decided Christian, and set out for Cornwall, Connecticut, to attend the Foreign Mission School, to fit himself for a preacher. He spent one year in the Andover Theological Seminary, to perfect himself in the work of preparation. In due time he returned to his own people, and devoted himself with great zeal to missionary work for several years. His death occurred in the spring of 1829. See Anderson’s Memoir; Allen, Amer. Biog. s.v. (J.C.S.)
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Brown, David (5)
an English Congregational minister, was born in Forfar, Scotland, March 27, 1804. He was apprenticed to his father as a linen-weaver, but was more fond of books than the loom. He taught two years at King’s Muir, and then several years in Forfar. He at first joined the Established Church, but in 1837 connected himself with the Congregational Church. Soon after this he studied at the universities of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, with a view to the ministry, and then for several years supplied vacant churches and itinerated in various parts of the country. In 1846 he was ordained over the Church at Harray, Orkney, where he labored eight years, and then became pastor at Cullen, where he died, April 1862. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1863, page 212.