• General Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: Began study of Latin at age six and graduated from Yale in 1720.  Received his degree of A.M. in 1723 and tutored at Yale 1724-26.  He was the third minister at Northampton, 1727-50, and was known as a preacher, theologian and author of world wide celebrity.  Sent as missionary to Indians at Stockbridge in August 1751 which he did until he was chosen as President of Naussa Hall College (Princeton) in 1758 just before his death.
  
  DEATH: Of smallpox after innoculation.

Details of Jonathan's family with Sarah PIERPONT