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Naphtali Daggett was born on September 8, 1727 at Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States; the son of Ebenezer and Mary (Blackington) Daggett.
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Naphtali Daggett was born on September 8, 1727 at Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States; the son of Ebenezer and Mary (Blackington) Daggett.
Naphtali Daggett prepared for college with Reverend Solomon Reed of Abington, Massachusetts, and with Reverend James Cogswell, of Plainfield, Conn.
Graduating from Yale in 1748, having gained the Berkeley Scholarship, he studied theology, and on September 18, 1751, was ordained first pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Smithtown, Long Island.
In 1755, although Daggett was but twenty-eight years old, he was nominated by President Clap for the professorship of divinity which had been established at Yale, and on March 4, 1756 he was installed. Previous to his installation, in order, if possible, to get back the college congregation, which President Clap had removed, the First Church of New Haven invited Daggett to become colleague-pastor with Rev. Joseph Noyes, but acting no doubt under the president's advice, he declined.
It was then proposed that he preach there for at least half the time, and the students were invited to attend without payment for sittings.
After six months’ trial, the arrangement was abandoned, and when in 1757 the Church of Christ in Yale College was established, he became its pastor.
Upon the resignation of President Clap in 1766 he was appointed acting president, and served in that capacity until March 1777.
The unsettled state in which President Clap left the college, and the pre-war conditions, made the period one of difficulty and little growth, but according to President Dwight, who was a tutor under him, “he had very just conceptions of the manner in which a College should be governed. ”
The college prospered under him, but he was not always “happy in the mode of administering its discipline. ”
In 1776 the students petitioned the corporation for his removal. After his resignation he continued to serve as professor until his death.
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Daggett is described as of “middle height, strong framed, indining to be corpulent, slow in his gait and somewhat clumsy in his movements”. He was orthodox, uncontroversial, and as a preacher had a drawling, unanimated delivery. He was an ardent supporter of the Revolution and is credited with the authorship of the “Cato Letters” in the Connecticut Gazette, which in 1765 inaugurated the attack on Tax-collector Jared Ingersoll.
On December 19, 1753, he married Sarah, daughter of Richard and Anna Smith.