Charles Burroughs

Charles Burroughs

a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of the diocese of New Hampshire, was born in Boston, Dec. 27,1787. He was ordained priest in 1812, and was rector in Portsmouth, N. H., until about 1857; and still remained there, without regular charge, until 1864, when he removed to Massachusetts, but never resumed regular duty. He died March 5, 1868. He wrote Memoirs H. B. Morse (1829):-Poetry of Religion, etc. (1851). See Prot. Episc. Almanac, 1869, p. 109; Drake, Diet. of Amer. Biog. s.v.