Blackleach Burritt was a preacher during the American Revolutionary War.
20 Facts About Blackleach Burritt
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Blackleach Burritt was born at Ripton Parish, now Huntington, Connecticut, circa 1744, although no birth records have been found for his birth.
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Blackleach Burritt was the son and second child of Peleg Burritt Jr.
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Blackleach Burritt was an expert blacksmith, an important trade for the new town.
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Blackleach Burritt's mother was Elizabeth Blackleach, the daughter of Richard Blackleach Jr.
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Blackleach Burritt's mother died circa 1745 and his father remarried at Ripton Parish on November 25,1746, Deborah Beardslee, the daughter of Caleb Beardslee and Elizabeth Booth, who was born on February 1,1726, at Stratford, Connecticut and died at Hanover Green, Pennsylvania, on August 7,1802.
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Blackleach Burritt had aspired to further his education and his college tuition was paid for by the inheritance from his grandfather Blackleach's estate.
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Blackleach Burritt's great-uncle was the Rev Dr Israel Chauncy, the youngest son of President Charles Chauncy.
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Blackleach Burritt graduated in 1661 from Harvard College and was called as the pastor at the Congregational Church at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1663.
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Blackleach Burritt was a daughter of Gideon Welles and Eunice Walker and a great-great-granddaughter of Governor Thomas Welles who along with his wife Alice and six children settled in the late summer 1636 probably in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Blackleach Burritt was the only man in Connecticut's history to hold all four top offices: governor, deputy governor, treasurer, and secretary.
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One of his sons, Dr Eli Blackleach Burritt, graduated from Williams College, class of 1800 and was licensed to practice medicine at Troy, New York, on March 29,1802, and quickly gained recognition for his medical skills.
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Blackleach Burritt was ordained and licensed to preach that year in the Presbyterian Church and was installed as the pastor of the Pound Ridge Presbyterian Church where he was a very active partisan on the side of the Patriots while serving at this parish.
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Blackleach Burritt was influenced by and championed the causes of the evangelical style of the Great Awakening.
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Blackleach Burritt was greatly influenced by the works of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.
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Blackleach Burritt heard Whitefield preach, on several occasions, at the Yale College Chapel.
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Blackleach Burritt was known for his use of extemporaneous preaching.
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Blackleach Burritt served as the pastor of several Presbyterian churches in Westchester County, New York from 1780 to around 1788.
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Blackleach Burritt is reported to have had wonderful physical strength and agility.
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Blackleach Burritt was regarded as somewhat visionary and unpractical, and perhaps eccentric.