Morgan Edwards was an American historian of religion and Baptist pastor.
12 Facts About Morgan Edwards
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Morgan Edwards was a trustee in the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later named Brown University.
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Morgan Edwards pastored several small Baptist churches in England for seven years, then moved to Ireland, where he pastored for nine years.
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Morgan Edwards was one of the few Baptist clergyman to side with the Tories in the American Revolution.
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Morgan Edwards was a friend to the Academy of Philadelphia, afterwards the University of Pennsylvania, which in 1769 honored him with an honorary Master of Arts.
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Morgan Edwards resigned as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia in 1771 and retired to Pencader Hundred, near Newark, Delaware where he lived until his death in 1795.
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Morgan Edwards's grave is located at the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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In 1764, Morgan Edwards joined James Manning, Ezra Stiles, Isaac Backus, John Gano, Samuel Stillman, William Ellery, and former Royal Governors Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward and several others as an original trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the first Baptist college in the original Thirteen Colonies and one of the Ivy League universities.
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Morgan Edwards's eschatology was based on a literal interpretation of scripture.
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Morgan Edwards wrote the first Baptist church manual in the United States titled "Customs of Primitive Churches".
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Morgan Edwards's major work, Materials Toward A History of the Baptists is an important source describing the Baptists in America.
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Morgan Edwards later wrote a companion volume, Materials Toward A History of the Baptists in New Jersey.