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Jarvis was born in Norwalk, Connecticut and graduated from Yale College in 1761.
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Abraham Jarvis
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He was a high churchman and a loyalist to the crown. He'served as rector of Christ Church, Middletown, Connecticut, from 1764 to 1799. Jarvis served as a chaplain to imprisoned Loyalist sympathizers during the American Revolution.
He presided at a convention in New Haven, Connecticut of clergy of Connecticut on July 23, 1776, which decided to suspend worship in the colony for fear of the British.
Jarvis was consecrated second bishop of Connecticut on October 18, 1797. Completing his service in Middletown in 1799, he then served in Cheshire until 1803 and finally in New Haven, where he died.
His remains are interred under the high altar at Trinity Church on the Green. Jarvis Hall, the oldest dormitory at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is named after Abraham Jarvis.
The Right Reverend Edward Bass (seventh in succession), first bishop of Massachusetts.
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The Right