Death the advantage of the godly. A sermon delivered at Guilford, on the 9th. of June, Anno Dom. 1728. Being the Lord's Day, next after the funeral of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Ruggles
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Library of Congress
W037872
N. London New London, Conn. : Printed and sold by T. Green, 1728. 4,42,2p. ; 8°
Divine grace illustrious in the salvation of sinners: a sermon delivered in the audience of the General Assembly of the colony of Connecticut, at New ... 22, 1727, in the time of the sessions there.
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Title: Divine grace illustrious in the salvation of sinners : a sermon delivered in the audience of the General Assembly of the colony of Connecticut, at New Haven, Octob. 22, 1727, in the time of the sessions there.
Author: Elisha Williams
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP03720700
CollectionID: CTRG01-B3011
PublicationDate: 17280101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
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Collation: 47 p. ; 15 cm
Elisha Williams was a Congregational minister, legislator, militia soldier, jurist, and rector of Yale College from 1726 to 1739.
Background
Elisha Williams was born on August 26, 1694 in Hatfield, Massachussets, where his father, the Rev. William Williams, was pastor of the Congregational church; Israel Williams was Elisha's half-brother. They were descended from Robert Williams who came from England in 1637 and settled in Roxbury, Massachussets Elisha's mother, Elizabeth (Cotton), was a granddaughter of John Cotton, and also of Gov. Simon Bradstreet.
Education
At the age of fourteen Williams entered the sophomore class of Harvard College and was graduated with honors in 1711. After he studied theology with his father for a time.
Career
He went to Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he later acquired a farm.
Soon after his marriage he went to Canso on the coast of Nova Scotia, where he preached to the fishermen. Returning to Wethersfield, he began the study of law. From 1716 to 1719, while the location of the Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale College) was a subject of heated controversy, he instructed a part of the student body in his home, achieving a high reputation as a teacher; among his pupils was Jonathan Edwards.
In the meantime, 1717, he was chosen to represent Wethersfield in the General Assembly and was present at five sessions, serving as clerk at four of them and as auditor of public accounts at the other. His experiences during a severe illness that befell him in 1719 apparently awakened him to a more vital interest in religion, and the following year the people of Newington Parish, in the western part of Wethersfield, sought his services as pastor.
On October 17, 1722, a formal organization of a church there having been effected two weeks before, he was ordained. Here he served until 1726, when he assumed the duties of rector of Yale College, to which office he had been elected in September of the year preceding. For some thirteen years he managed the affairs of the institution with dignity and wisdom; its reputation was strengthened, and the number of students steadily increased.
When on October 30, 1739, Williams offered his resignation, the trustees accepted it "with great reluctancy" and "with hearty thankfulness for all his past good service". The ostensible reason for his resignation was impaired health, but it was hinted that he aspired to be governor of Connecticut.
Returning to his farm in Wethersfield, he again became active in public affairs. In 1740 he was sent to the General Assembly, and thereafter served in that body almost continuously up to 1749, at several sessions being chosen speaker. From 1740 to 1743 he was also a judge of the superior court, failing of subsequent appointment, it is said, because of "New Light" sympathies. Generally ascribed to him, though also to Thomas Cushing, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1742-46, is a pamphlet by "Philalethes" - The Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants. A Seasonable Plea for the Liberty of Conscience, and the Right of Private Judgment in Matters of Religion, Without Any Controul from Human Authority (1744). In it the author criticizes recent restrictive legislation by the Connecticut Assembly.
When, during King George's War, the expedition against Cape Breton was under consideration, Williams and Jonathan Trumbull were sent to Massachusetts to confer with Governor Shirley. Later, to his varied experiences Williams added those of an army chaplain, accompanying the Connecticut troops to Louisbourg and being present at the capture of the fortress in June 1745. His aptitude for military duties was such that when the expedition for the conquest of Canada was organized he was made colonel of the Connecticut forces. Since the enterprise was ultimately abandoned, however, he had no opportunity to prove his ability as a commanding officer in the field.
In December 1749 he went to England, primarily to secure payment of money that had been advanced for the Canada expedition and incidentally to solicit funds for the College of New Jersey. He remained abroad for more than two years and came into close association with leaders of the evangelical movement. After his return to Connecticut, Williams was again sent to the General Assembly, and was one of the Connecticut delegates at the intercolonial congress held in Albany in 1754.
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Personality
He was a man of great physical and mental energy, wide interests, varied abilities, and roaming disposition.
Connections
On Feburary 23, 1713/14 he married Eunice, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Treat) Chester. His wife died May 31, 1750, and on January 29, 1751, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Scott of Norwich, England, the noted Bible commentator.
Of his six children, a son and a daughter survived him.