Samuel Gile (1778 - 1836)

Born 23 Jul 1778 in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

Died 16 Oct 1836 at age 58 in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

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• Burleigh #142 - (See Burleigh for extensive eulogy 2 pages. He was a renowned Congregationalist minister in Milton.)
• >NEHGS Register Vol.20 - "He graduated D.C. 1804; studied Divinity at Andover under Rev. Jonathan French, was ordained at Milton, Feb. 18, 1807; was dismissed by an ex-parte Council, Jan. 6, 1834. A new Society was formed and named "The First Evangelical Society", Mr. Gile was their pastor until his death. Soon after his settlement he married Miss Mary Henley White, dau. of Isaac White Esq. of Salem, Mass. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Vermont, a few months before his decease.
•  !Vital Records of Plaistow, NH (Hammond) p. 35 shows b.
• !Bio From "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 20 Records of Wethersfield, Conn. p. 318 - "He graduated D.C. 1804; studied Divinity at Andover under Rev.Jonathan French, was ordained at Milton,...Feb. 18, 1807; was dismissed by anex-parte Council, Jan. 6, 1834. A new Society was formed and named "The First Evangelical Society", Mr. Gile was their pastor until his death. Soon after his settlement he married Miss Mary Henley White, dau. of Isaac White Esq. ofSalem, Mass. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Universityo f Vermont, a few months before his decease. (A biographical notice of Mr.Gile may be seen in the American Quarterly Register, Vol. x, page 217, with a portrait." "The Good and Faithful Servant" Preached at Milton, October 18, 1836 at the Funeral of rhe Rev. Samuel Gile, D.D., Pastor of the First CongregationalChurch in that place." Memoir of John Colman, D.D. by William Allen, D.D.Boston: Svo. 1853. Source of death date.
•  !THE NATIVE MINISTERY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, by Re. N. F. Carter (1906) has brief bio as above, but shows birth date 23 Jul 1780. Mentions wife, but no child mentioned.
•  !Obit. Index shows his appeared in Columbian Centinel 19 Oct 1836 - "Gile,Samuel, Rev., D.D., d. at Milton, Oct. 15, 1836, aged 57 yrs."

•  !Connection? Boston Seaman's Friend Society (MA), updated 13/Sep/2009
• Gile, Samuel, [1836, USA|MA]
• Gile, Samuel, [1833, USA|MA]
• Gile, Samuel, [1831, USA|MA]
• Gile, Samuel, [1830, USA|MA]

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