Compend Of History (1814) Samuel Whelpley
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- Compend Of History (1814) Samuel Whelpley
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Compend Of History (1814) Samuel Whelpley
Author: Victorian Vault
Year: 1814
WHELPLEY, Samuel, clergyman, born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1766; died in New York city, 14 July, 1817. His parents removed to a farm in Stockbridge from Wilton, Connecticut The son studied theology under Dr. Stephen West, was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1792, and preached in Stockbridge and West Stockbridge till he took charge of an independent church in Green River, New Jersey In 1798-1809 he was at the head of an academy in Morristown, New Jersey, and in 1806 he was received into the ministry of the Presbyterian church. In 1809 he opened a school in Newark, New Jersey, but in the latter part of the year failing health forced him to go to Savannah, Georgia, where he supported himself by teaching. He returned to Newark in 1811, and in 1814 went to New York, where he had charge of a school for a short time, till his health failed utterly. Mr. Whelpley was the author of "Compend of History from the Earliest Times " (Philadelphia, 1808; new ed., 2 vols., New York, 1855); "Letters on Capital Punishment and War," addressed to Governor Caleb Strong (1816); and "The Triangle: a Series of Numbers upon Three Theological Points enforced from Various Pulpits in New York," a d