Age 69y
Rev. War marker
First Presbyterian pastor In Baldwin
JOHN DAVENPORT, | Died July 13, | 1821 | Aged 69 Years | And | SARAH his wife | died Sept. 25,1820 | Ae. 54 Y'rs. | who was formerly wife of | Wm. Robinson Jr. | of Philadelphia. | For others see Records. |
This humble but curious stone is in the older part of the Baldwinsville cemetery. In the Buffalo Patriot, July 25, 1821, among deaths of Revolutionary soldiers is this notice: "DAVENPORT. In Lysander, Onondaga Co., the Rev. John Davenport, aged 69 years." He came there in 1810, and was the first Moderator of the Onondaga Presbytery, in 1811. For five years he was a Presbyterian pastor at Baldwinsville, dying there as above. He was born at Freehold, N. J., Aug. 11, 1752; graduated at Princeton in '69; and was ordained at Mattituck, Suffolk Co., N. Y., June 4, '75, serving there two years. He married Elizabeth Barker, widow of his predecessor, Dec. 18, '75, and was dismissed from the Suffolk Presbytery, April 12, '86. He then settled in Bedford, N. Y., and afterward in Deerfield, whence he was dismissed because of feeble health in 1805. Returning to N. Y. in 1809, he began work in Lysander. While the name is a frequent one, he may have been merely enrolled without farther service, or may have acted as chaplain, as he still held his pastoral charge.
Rev. War marker
First Presbyterian pastor In Baldwin
JOHN DAVENPORT, | Died July 13, | 1821 | Aged 69 Years | And | SARAH his wife | died Sept. 25,1820 | Ae. 54 Y'rs. | who was formerly wife of | Wm. Robinson Jr. | of Philadelphia. | For others see Records. |
This humble but curious stone is in the older part of the Baldwinsville cemetery. In the Buffalo Patriot, July 25, 1821, among deaths of Revolutionary soldiers is this notice: "DAVENPORT. In Lysander, Onondaga Co., the Rev. John Davenport, aged 69 years." He came there in 1810, and was the first Moderator of the Onondaga Presbytery, in 1811. For five years he was a Presbyterian pastor at Baldwinsville, dying there as above. He was born at Freehold, N. J., Aug. 11, 1752; graduated at Princeton in '69; and was ordained at Mattituck, Suffolk Co., N. Y., June 4, '75, serving there two years. He married Elizabeth Barker, widow of his predecessor, Dec. 18, '75, and was dismissed from the Suffolk Presbytery, April 12, '86. He then settled in Bedford, N. Y., and afterward in Deerfield, whence he was dismissed because of feeble health in 1805. Returning to N. Y. in 1809, he began work in Lysander. While the name is a frequent one, he may have been merely enrolled without farther service, or may have acted as chaplain, as he still held his pastoral charge.
Age 69y
Rev. War marker
First Presbyterian pastor In Baldwin
JOHN DAVENPORT, | Died July 13, | 1821 | Aged 69 Years | And | SARAH his wife | died Sept. 25,1820 | Ae. 54 Y'rs. | who was formerly wife of | Wm. Robinson Jr. | of Philadelphia. | For others see Records. |
This humble but curious stone is in the older part of the Baldwinsville cemetery. In the Buffalo Patriot, July 25, 1821, among deaths of Revolutionary soldiers is this notice: "DAVENPORT. In Lysander, Onondaga Co., the Rev. John Davenport, aged 69 years." He came there in 1810, and was the first Moderator of the Onondaga Presbytery, in 1811. For five years he was a Presbyterian pastor at Baldwinsville, dying there as above. He was born at Freehold, N. J., Aug. 11, 1752; graduated at Princeton in '69; and was ordained at Mattituck, Suffolk Co., N. Y., June 4, '75, serving there two years. He married Elizabeth Barker, widow of his predecessor, Dec. 18, '75, and was dismissed from the Suffolk Presbytery, April 12, '86. He then settled in Bedford, N. Y., and afterward in Deerfield, whence he was dismissed because of feeble health in 1805. Returning to N. Y. in 1809, he began work in Lysander. While the name is a frequent one, he may have been merely enrolled without farther service, or may have acted as chaplain, as he still held his pastoral charge.
Rev. War marker
First Presbyterian pastor In Baldwin
JOHN DAVENPORT, | Died July 13, | 1821 | Aged 69 Years | And | SARAH his wife | died Sept. 25,1820 | Ae. 54 Y'rs. | who was formerly wife of | Wm. Robinson Jr. | of Philadelphia. | For others see Records. |
This humble but curious stone is in the older part of the Baldwinsville cemetery. In the Buffalo Patriot, July 25, 1821, among deaths of Revolutionary soldiers is this notice: "DAVENPORT. In Lysander, Onondaga Co., the Rev. John Davenport, aged 69 years." He came there in 1810, and was the first Moderator of the Onondaga Presbytery, in 1811. For five years he was a Presbyterian pastor at Baldwinsville, dying there as above. He was born at Freehold, N. J., Aug. 11, 1752; graduated at Princeton in '69; and was ordained at Mattituck, Suffolk Co., N. Y., June 4, '75, serving there two years. He married Elizabeth Barker, widow of his predecessor, Dec. 18, '75, and was dismissed from the Suffolk Presbytery, April 12, '86. He then settled in Bedford, N. Y., and afterward in Deerfield, whence he was dismissed because of feeble health in 1805. Returning to N. Y. in 1809, he began work in Lysander. While the name is a frequent one, he may have been merely enrolled without farther service, or may have acted as chaplain, as he still held his pastoral charge.
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