Suffolk County Biographies
Source: Ancestry.com
New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800
Persons with Ties to Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
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Rev. John Woodhull
John Woodhull was born in Suffolk County, Long Island. He studied
theology with the Rev. John Blair, and was licensed by the
Presbytery of New Castle in 1768. He settled at Leacock,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he was installed, August 1,
1770. Mr. Woodhull was a strenuous Whig, and while in this charge
advocated the cause so eloquently from the pulpit that he
succeeded in enlisting as soldiers every male member of his
congregation capable of bearing arms, he going with them as
chaplain. In 1778 he succeeded the Rev. William Tennent at
Freehold, New Jersey. During many years of his ministry he
conducted a grammar school, and superintended the studies of
young men preparing for the ministry. He was a Trustee of
Princeton College for forty-four years. Mr. Woodhull received the
degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale in 1798. He died Nov. 22,
1824.--Hist, of Old Tennent Church, by Rev. F. R. Symmes, 1897;
Funeral Sermon.
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