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- Early American Newspapers
Connecticut Journal
Connecticut
July 3, 1772
North Branford, June 29, 1772
Saturday left departed this Life, after a long Illness and Confinement, the Reverend Jonathan Merick, Senior Pastor of the Second Church of Christ in Branford. He has left a disconsolate Widow and Sorrowful Children, & a Sermon preach’d on the Occasion by the Rev. Napthali Dagget, President of Yale-College, to a numerous Assembly, from Job 30, 23. The Exercise was open’d with Prayer, by the Rev. Phileman Robbins, and clos’d with Prayer by the Rev. Warham Williams. The whole was conducted with Decency and Solemnity. He was a faithful and laborious Minster of the Gospel, a wife Counsellor, and good Divine; lare Fellow of the Corporation of Yale-College; happy in the People of his Charge, and died lamented by all.-The Memory of the Tuft is blessed.
(Note: This is transcribed exactly like it was written.)
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1700 - 1772 (71 years)
