About Moses Mather
Lived 1719 – 1806 (aged 87). Moses Mather was a christian minister.
Moses Mather (23 February 1719 in Lyme, Connecticut21 September 1806 in Darien, Connecticut), was a Connecticut clergyman.
Biography He graduated from Yale University in 1739, and was ordained over the Congregational church in Darien in 1744, which post he held until his death. During the American Revolutionary War, he was several times imprisoned as a patriot. Princeton University gave him the degree of D.D. in 1791.
He was noted as a controversialist. He published Infant Baptism Defended (1759), and Election Sermons (1781).
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American clergyman
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Moses Mather was born on 23 February 1719.
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Moses Mather died on 21 September 1806.
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Moses Mather was a christian minister.
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