a Presbyterian minister, was born at Flemington, N.J., October 16,1798. He graduated from New Jersey College in 1815, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1819; was ordained August 14, 1821; served as a missionary to the Sandwich Islands from, 1822 to 1825, became chaplain in the United States navy in 1828, made his last cruise in 1862, and died at Cooperstown, N.Y., December 14, 1870. He edited the United States Naval Magazine in 1836 and 1837, and published several interesting books of voyages and observations, for which see Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.