Bible Encyclopedias
Backus, Simon (2)
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
a Congregational minister, son of the preceding, graduated at Yale College in 1759; was settled as the first pastor of the Church in Graliby, Mass., in October, 1762; resigned his pastoral charge in March, 1784, and died in 1828, at the age of eighty-seven. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 231.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Backus, Simon (2)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/b/backus-simon-2.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.