Author: Brockway, Thomas
Biography:
BROCKWAY, Thomas (1745-1807: ancestry.com)
The son of Captain William Brockway and his wife Hannah Clark, he was born in Lyme, New London county CT, on 20 Jan. 1745. He graduated from Yale in 1768 and was ordained as a Congregationalist minister in 1772 at Lebanon CT, where he served his flock for the rest of his life. 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. He died "suddenly" at Lyme on 5 July 1807 and was buried in the Old Yard cemetery, Columbia CT. (ancestry.com 20 July 2025; Sprague; Francis Bernard Heitman, Historical Register of the Officers of the Continental Army . . . [1893], 100; Connecticut Herald 14 July 1807) HJ