Thomas Williams (1779 - 1876)

Born 5 Nov 1779 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Died 29 Sep 1876 at age 96 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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Biography

• Congregational minister and author
• 1800, Yale graduate
• 1799-1803, taught school in Beverly, Mass, Woodstock and Norwich, CT
• 1803, teaching at a Boston school for African-American students
• 1803, ordained to serve as chaplain of almshouse in Boston
• 1804-7, evangelist; two tours in NY
• 1803-4, studied theology for 6 weeks with Rev Dr Nathanael Emmons in Franklin, Mass
• 1806, supplied pulpit in Branford Congregational Church
• 1807-16, supplied Pacific Congregational Church in Providence
• 1816-21, pastor in Foxborough
• 1823-7, pastor at Attleboro
• 1827-30, pastor at Hebronville, Mass
• 1830-5, preached at different churches in RI
• 1835-38, pastor at Barrington
• 1839-40, resided in Hartford
• 1840-3, resided in East Greenwich, RI
• 1843, lived in Providence for the rest of his life and preached at different places
• "He was a man of strong intellect and marked individuality."
• "He was a Hopkinsian in theology, and a warm personal friend of Dr. Emmons, whose funeral sermon he preached."
• "His preaching was marked by great honesty, earnestness, and scriptural authority, as the Bible was his constant study. Wit, satire, and invective, accompanied his arguments, and made his weapons of warfarre sharp and effective."
• "His last years were spent as an evangelist in Rhode Island, and in the publication of tracts and sermons, of which he printed several volumes."
• above quotes from Barrington Bios

Sources

Barrington, Bristol Co., Ri, Biographies, Part 2. Extracted From A History Of Barrington, Rhode Island. Thomas Williams Bicknell. Providence: Snow & Farnham, printers. 1898.

Bowditch, Biographical Sketches of Yale Graduates, Class of 1800, p419.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Williams_(1779%E2%80%931876)

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/183966489/person/132424816860/facts

Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography; Volume: Vol. VI, p 533.