Background
Chandler, Thomas Bradbury was born on April 26, 1726 in Woodstock, Connecticut, United States. Son of Captain William and Jemima (Bradbury) Chandler.
Chandler, Thomas Bradbury was born on April 26, 1726 in Woodstock, Connecticut, United States. Son of Captain William and Jemima (Bradbury) Chandler.
Graduated from Yale, 1745. Master of Arts, Oxford (England) University, 1753, Doctor of Divinity, 1766. Doctor of Divinity, Columbia, 1767.
Called to service Saint John's Church, Elizabethtown New Jersey, 1747. Ordained to Anglican Church, London, England., circa 1751. Leading advocate of America episcopacy.
Loyalist, attacked Continental Congress in pamphlet What Think Ye of Congress Now?, 1775.
Fled to England, 1775, returned to Elizabethtown, 1785. Author: An Appeal to the Public in Behalf of the Church of England in America, 1767.
Married Jane M. Emott, 1750, 6 children.