{"id":29405,"date":"2022-09-28T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/briggs-james\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:32:27","slug":"briggs-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/briggs-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Briggs, James"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Briggs, James<\/h2>\n<p>a Congregationial minister, was born at Newton, Massachusetts, January 18, 1746. He graduated at Yale in 1775; was ordained pastor of the Church in Cummington, in 1779, where he had been preaching for several years previous; and died December 7, 1825. &#8220;When he was settled, the town vowed to give him 200 acres of good land and 60 (estimated by rye at 3s. 4d. a bushel), for &#8216;settlement,&#8217; and 50 salary, to be increased by 5 a year until it reached 60, estimated by rye, as above; by beef at 20d. a pound, and flax at 8d. a pound.&#8221; See Cong. Quarterly, 1859, page 44; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 2:408.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briggs, James a Congregationial minister, was born at Newton, Massachusetts, January 18, 1746. He graduated at Yale in 1775; was ordained pastor of the Church in Cummington, in 1779, where he had been preaching for several years previous; and died December 7, 1825. &#8220;When he was settled, the town vowed to give him 200 acres &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/briggs-james\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Briggs, James&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}