Niles, Samuel (2)
Niles, Samuel (1)
a Congregational minister of colonial days, was born at Block Island, Mass., May 1; 1674; was educated at Harvard University, class of 1699; and after thoroughly preparing himself for ministerial labors became pastor of a church at Kingston, R. I., in 1702, and there remained until 1710. In 1711 he was installed pastor of the Second Church at Braintree, Mass. He died at his native place May 1, 1762. He published, A brief and sorrowful Account of the present Churches in New England (1745).: Vindication of divers Important Doctrines (1752, 8vo): Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin (1757, 8vo): God’s Wonder-working Providence for New England in the Reduction of Louisburg (1747): History of the French and Indian Wars, in Hist. Collections, 3d series, vol. vi.
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Niles, Samuel (2)
a Congregational minister, son of the preceding, was born Dec. 14, 1743, at Braintree, Mass., where his father was then pastor. Niles, Jun., graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1769; studied under Dr. Bellamy; entered the ministry Nov. 7, 1770, and was ordained, Sept. 25, 1771, pastor in Abington, Mass., where he remained until his death, Jan. 16,1814. He published two occasional sermons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1:713.