Clark, Peter (2)
Clark, Peter
a Congregational minister, was a native of Watertown, Mass., born 1693, graduated at Harvard 1712, and was ordained pastor in Salem village (now Danvers) June 3, 1717. He published several controversial pamphlets concerning Original Sin in opposition to the Rev. Samuel Webster and Dr. Chauncy (1757-1760); Scripture Grounds of the Baptism of Christian Infants asserted and defended in a Letter, etc. (1735); also several occasional sermons. He died in June, 1768. Sprague, Annals, 1, 291.
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Clark, Peter (1)
a Congregational minister, was born at Watertown, Mass.; about 1693., He graduated in. 1712 at Harvard College, and was invited, Aug. 7, 1716, to become the pastor at Salem (now Danvers), and was installed June 5, 1717. He died in June, 1768. In the latter part of his life he became involved in a controversy with the Rev. Samuel Webster of Salisbury, concerning the doctrine of original sin, and displayed no ordinary skill in dealing with the subject. His preaching was energetic in denunciation and pathetic in appeal. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 291…
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Clark, Peter (2)
a Baptist minister, was born at Gilmanton, N. H., Oct. 8, 1791. He joined the Free-will Baptists in June, 1798; was ordained Jan. 8,1810, and became the pastor of the Church in Gilmanton. He died Nov. 28, 1865. Mr. Clark took a prominent part in the temperance reformation in the region where he resided. He was a careful observer of men and things; possessed a .tenacious memory, had a critical mind, and cultivated the habit of great exactness in his language. See. Barrett, Memoirs of Eminent Preachers, p. 78-85. (J.C. S.).