Backus, Simon (2)

Backus, Simon (1)

a Congregational minister, was a native of Norwich, Conn. He graduated at Yale College in 1724, and was ordained pastor of the Church at Newington, Conn., Jan. 25,1727; was a chaplain in the colonial service at Cape Breton, and there he died in 1745, aged about forty-five years. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 231.

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Backus, Simon (2)

a Congregational minister, son of the preceding, graduated at Yale College in 1759; was settled as the first pastor of the Church in Graliby, Mass., in October, 1762; resigned his pastoral charge in March, 1784, and died in 1828, at the age of eighty-seven. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 231.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature