Clark, Thomas (4)
Clark, Thomas (2)
an Associate Reformed minister, graduated at the University of Glasgow. In 1745 and 1746 he did faithful service in the army. According to the practice of the day, he pursued a thorough course of medical study in the university. He met with the Associate Burgher Synod at Stirling, in 1747; and was ordained and installed over the congregation of Ballybay, Ireland, July 23, 1751. While preaching here he was taken prisoner for his views respecting the oath of allegiance, but converted the jail-keeper and was discharged. He came to America about 1765, and was the first Burgher minister in this country. He preached in Salem, Mass., for several years, then in the South, where he did much good; and finally in Abbeville, S. C., where he died, Dec. 25, 1793. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, IX,
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Clark, Thomas (3)
a Scotch clergyman, was presented to the living at Eaglesham in 1765, and ordained in 1767; but the settlement was delayed by a furious mob preventing the presbytery entering the church, and threatening death to the minister and patron. The General Assembly censured the presbytery for the delay. He was killed by a fall from his horse, Aug. 3, 1783. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, ii, 65.
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Clark, Thomas (4)
a Scotch clergyman, born at Galloway in September, 1790, was licensed to preach in 1819, presented to the living at Methyen in 1824, and ordained; was transferred to the Old Church, Edinburgh, in 1841, and died Jan. 11, 1857, aged sixty-six years. He was a man of clear and vigorous intellect; his sermons were models of condensed thought and expression. :For several years he managed the business of the General Assembly’s Colonial Committee. See Fasti. Eccles. Scoticance, ii, 652. a Scotch clergyman, was licensed to preach. in 1832, presented by the king to the living at Lethendy in 1835, and after much objection ordained the legal difficulties still continued, a libel was preferred against him for drunkenness, his license was taken from him in 1846, and he died at Glasgow in July, 1859, aged fifty-two years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, ii, 805, 806.