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David Benedict was born on October 10, 1779, in Norwalk, Connecticut, the eldest child of Thomas Benedict, a farmer, and of Martha Scudder.
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David Benedict was born on October 10, 1779, in Norwalk, Connecticut, the eldest child of Thomas Benedict, a farmer, and of Martha Scudder.
David joined the Baptist Church in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1799, was a shoemaker's apprentice, and went to school at Mt. Pleasant (now Ossining), New York. Here he met expenses by tutoring younger pupils, among whom was Francis Wayland, later president of Brown University. After two years Benedict himself entered Brown and graduated in 1806, delivering an earnest oration on "Ecclesiastical History. " He issued his first publication, anonymously, while he was still in college - a pamphlet entitled The Watery War, or a Poetical Description of the Controversy on the Subjects and Mode of Baptism, by John of Enon. It was widely circulated, and was reprinted in 1843.
After graduation David accepted his first and only pastorate, at a salary of $400 a year, with the newly organized First Baptist Church of Pawtucket, to whose people he had preached when he was a student. He led them effectively for twenty-three years. Deeply engaged in the study of Baptist history, which he deemed his real vocation, Benedict ultimately gave up his pastorate. In a day of heavy postage he wrote hundreds of letters of inquiry and traveled nearly 4, 000 miles on horseback throughout New England and as far west as the Mississippi. He rightly claimed a wider acquaintance with Baptist men and affairs than anyone else then living.
Benedict’s chief works were: A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of the World (2 vols. , 1813), not free from defects or infelicities, but a pioneer work, widely used; Abridgment of Robinson's History of Baptism (1817); History of All Religions (1824); A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of the World (1848), a different work from the previous one bearing the same title; Fifty Years among the Baptists (1860), his last personal publication.
As a nonagenarian, with good health and eyesight, he still worked assiduously, and before his death had practically completed a "Compendium of Ecclesiastical History" for popular use, and a History of the Donatists which was published posthumously. In his pastorate he wrote and collected hymns for church use, publishing them in editions reaching 20, 000 copies. He pioneered in founding Sunday schools throughout the Blackstone Valley, with paid teachers in various churches. Elected a trustee of Brown University in 1818, from 1858 he was senior member of the Corporation, and, until his last year, was absent from but one meeting in fifty-five years. He was sometime postmaster of Pawtucket. Though hale to the last, he survived but a few days the deaths of his oldest daughter and of a beloved sister in the same week late in 1874.
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David Benedict was a member of the Baptist Church.
On May 5, 1808, David Benedict married Margaret Hubbel Gano, daughter of Stephen Gano, who was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Providence. They lived together sixty years and had twelve children.