Usher, John (2)
Usher, John (1)
an American Episcopal minister, was born in 1689; graduated at Harvard College in 1719; studied theology; went to England for holy orders, and returned as missionary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts; and was appointed to the mission at Bristol, R. I. He died at Bristol, April 30,1775.See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 5, 48-50.
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Usher, John (2)
son of the preceding, was born at Bristol, R. I., 1722; graduated at Harvard, College in 1743; practiced law for many years; commenced reading service, after the death of his father, in 1775; .was ordained by bishop, Seabury in 1793, and rector of the parish until 1800.He died July, 1804. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, p. 49.