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Seth Williston was born on April 4, 1770, in Suffield, Connecticut, the son of Consider Williston and Rhoda King.
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Seth Williston was born on April 4, 1770, in Suffield, Connecticut, the son of Consider Williston and Rhoda King.
He assisted his father in his trade of saddler and on the farm, and he obtained the elements of an education under teachers near his home. In 1791 he graduated from Dartmouth College.
After teaching for three years at Windsor and New London, Connecticut, and reading a good deal in theology, he was licensed by the Tolland County Association on October 7, 1794. He preached in churches in Connecticut and Vermont, and at Rupert, Vermont, was called to be pastor.
Hearing of the religious needs of the "Chenango country" in New York, however, in July 1796 he went on his own responsibility to Patterson's Settlement in Broome County. There and for twenty miles south and west, among New England immigrants, he worked with growing success. During a short visit home he was ordained by the North Association of Hartford County on June 7, 1797.
In this year and in 1798 he carried his missionary travels northwestward into the Cayuga Lake country. On December 15, 1797, he organized the First Congregational Church of Lisle. Then not more than five churches existed westward in New York.
In June 1798 he was appointed to missionary service by the Connecticut General Association (Congregational), which then organized itself as the Connecticut Missionary Society. The next three years he spent in the service of this society. Living at Lisle he worked over the country from the Chenango to the Genesee and northward to Lake Ontario. In his theology he was a follower of Samuel Hopkins and his preaching, in an important degree, evoked the revival of 1799 - 1800 in this region. He also recorded preaching in forty-four settlements, in many the first preacher heard. After riding miles he spent his nights in log cabins, and by firelight did much solid reading.
In May 1801 he became pastor at Lisle, stipulating that he should spend a quarter of his time in missionary work. He spent more, preaching widely in central New York and northern Pennsylvania. He organized nine churches that are recorded, probably more.
In 1810 he removed to Durham, New York, in the Catskills. During his eighteen years' service as pastor there he published several volumes of sermons and religious discussions. In 1828 he received his dismissal at his own request and devoted himself to his missionary travels, honored as one of the principal Christian teachers of the region. In this time he published five more books. His best-known book in its day was The Harmony of Divine Truth (1836). He died on March 2, 1851, at Guilford Center, New York.
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In May 1804, Seth Williston married Sibyl Dudley, who died in 1849. They had one son.
