Abraham Pierson

• General Notes
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    OCCUPATION: Pastor, first president of Yale University
         EDUCATION: Graduated from Harvard
    Ref#102:
    He is described as"fleshy, well favoured and comely-looking, was more
    liberal, more controversial, more independent, more given to Presbyterian
    doctrines than his father." He was the second pastor of the
    Presbyterian Church, after his father, in Newark, NJ. He graduated from
    Harvard in 1668. In 1692 he sailed to Connecticut and became the pastor
    of a church in Killingworth (now Clinton). Ten years later he became the
    first president of the Collage of Connecticut (now known as Yale
    University). There was a statue erected at Yale honoring this Rev.
    Abraham Pierson Jr. (This information was found in the book of Newark,
    written by John Cunningham.)
    
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