a Presbyterian minister of Huguenot descent, was born in Cumberland Counity, Pennyslvania, in 1770. He was educated at Dickinson College, and studied theology under Dr. David Rice, of Kentucky. He was licensed in 1796; in 1798 went to Abingdon, Virginia; from 1804 he was pastor at Sinking Springs and Green Springs, also teaching and occasionally making missionary tours into Indiana. In 1837 he removed to Missouri, and died at Paris, Illinois. in December, 1840. He was widely iifluential. See Nevin, Presbyterian Encyclop. s.v.