Ashbel Woodbridge, 17051786 (aged 81 years)

Name
Ashbel /Woodbridge/
Given names
Ashbel
Surname
Woodbridge
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August 9, 1786 (aged 81 years)
USA
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16561683
Birth: January 13, 1656 38 35 Barford-St. Martin's, Wiltshire, England
Death: 1683Hartford, Connecticut
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himself
Family with Jerusha Pitkin
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17481811
Birth: June 10, 1748 43 48 Hartford, Connecticut
Death: November 28, 1811Pennsylvania
Note

Ordained at Glastonbury, Connecticut in October 1728; served as Chaplain of a Connecticut Regiment in the French war; and was Fellow of Yale College 1755 to 1758. The memorial on his tomb reads: "Here lies interred ye body of the Revd. Mr. Ashbel Woodbridge, A great scholar, an excellent divine, a faithful minister, a wise peace-maker, he shone with uncommon lusture in every station of life untill he fell asleep August 6, 1758, in the 55th year of his life and the 30th of his ministry."