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a Congregational minister, was born at Braintree, Mass., Nov. 5, 1739. He was immediately connected with the celebrated Adams family, his father being an -uncle' of John Adams. He was a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1759. He was ordained as pastor of the Church in Lunenburg, Mass., Sept. 5, 1764. and died March 1, 1801, in the thirty-seventh year of his ministry. He preached the Dudleian Lecture on Presbyterian ordination in 1794, and published several Sermons, one of which was the election sermon before the Massachusetts Legislature in 1782. See Whitney, Funeral Sermon; Allen, Amer. Biog. (J. C. S.)