Author: Brockway, Thomas
Biography:
BROCKWAY, Thomas (1744?-1807: WBIS)
Born in Lyme CT, he graduated from Yale in 1768 and was ordained as a Congregationalist minister in Lebanon CT in 1772. In the same year, he married Eunice Lathrop; they had thirteen children. In 1776, he served as chaplain of Selden's Regiment of the Connecticut militia. He is reported to have taken up arms himself (a "long gun") and led his parishioners in fighting at the burning of New London. He served his ministry for 35 years and published a number of sermons. (Sprague; Francis Bernard Heitman, Historical Register of the Officers of the Continental Army . . . [1893], 100) HJ
Books written (1):
Worcester MA: printed by James R. Hutchins, 1795