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<p> a Presbyterian minister, was born -in Charlotte county, Va., 1734, graduated at [[Princeton]] in 1759, and in 1761 was ordained pastor of '''''‘''''' the Presbyterian church of Elizabethtown, N. J. At the [[Revolution]] he entered with spirit into the controversy, and was soon branded as a rebel; and on the formation of the [[Jersey]] brigade; he was at once selected as its chaplain. Throughout the war he suffered severely; toward the close of it, his church was burnt and his wife murdered by the enemy. The people reposed great confidence in him, and his labors, counsels, and exhortations were of great assistance to the cause he had espoused. This honored patriot was killed in1781, at Eliiabethport, by a drunken soldier named Morgan, who was tried, convicted, and hung upon the charge of murder. Caldwell was a man of unwearied activity and of wonderful powers of endurance. As a preacher he was uncommonly eloquent and pathetic. '''''—''''' Sprague, Annals, 3:222. </p>
<p> a Congregational minister, was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, in the spring of 1809. He was educated at [[Glasgow]] University; ordained in 1837; preached at Biggar, Greenock, and Stockton-on-the-Tees (Eng.); came to [[America]] in 1851; was acting pastor successively at Kent, Connecticut, Sheffield, Massachusetts, Beardstown, Illinois, Post Mills, in Thetford, Vermont, and without charge at Barnard and Post Mills until his death, April 9, 1885. See Cong. Year-book, 1886, page 21. </p>


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Latest revision as of 08:35, 15 October 2021

James Caldwell [1]

a Congregational minister, was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, in the spring of 1809. He was educated at Glasgow University; ordained in 1837; preached at Biggar, Greenock, and Stockton-on-the-Tees (Eng.); came to America in 1851; was acting pastor successively at Kent, Connecticut, Sheffield, Massachusetts, Beardstown, Illinois, Post Mills, in Thetford, Vermont, and without charge at Barnard and Post Mills until his death, April 9, 1885. See Cong. Year-book, 1886, page 21.

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