Samuel Auchmuty DD (1722 - 1777)

Born 16 Jan 1722 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Mary (Nicholls) Auchmuty — married 13 Dec 1749 in Trinity Church Parish, New York

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Died 4 Mar 1777 at age 55 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States

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Biography

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Samuel was born in 1722. He was a clergyman. He graduated from Harvard in 1742, studied theology in England, and was appointed assistant minister of Trinity Church in New York. In 1764 he became rector, and had charge of all the churches in the city. He continued to read prayers for the king during the American Revolutionary War, until Lord Stirling, in command at New York, compelled him to desist; whereupon he locked the churches and withdrew to New Jersey, ordering that no services should be held until the prayers could be read without abridgement. When the British captured New York he passed the American lines amid great hardships. He found his church and parsonage burned and the church records destroyed. The exposure that he underwent in order to evade the American sentries caused his death in 1777.

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Sources

• The Auchmuty family of Scotland and America, by Townsend, Annette,1884-
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Auchmuty_(general)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mulcaster

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