American clergyman, born near Summit Ridge, DE, on the 3rd of November 1724. He was ordained in Hanover Co., VA, and some years later went to England and raised funds for the College of New Jersey, of which he was one of the founders, and whose president he became in 1759, succeeding Jonathan Edwards. He was prominent as a pulpit orator. A collection of his sermons was published in three volumes, after his death. He died in Princeton, NJ, on the 4th of February 1761. See also “A Parson’s Call to Arms.”
