Adams, Zabdiel, a Congregational minister, was born at Braintree, Mass., Nov. 5, 1739. He was immediately connected with the celebrated Adams family, his father being an -uncle' of John Adams. He was a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1759. He was ordained as pastor of the Church in Lunenburg, Mass., Sept. 5, 1764. and died March 1, 1801, in the thirty-seventh year of his ministry. He preached the Dudleian Lecture on Presbyterian ordination in 1794, and published several Sermons, one of which was the election sermon before the Massachusetts Legislature in 1782. See Whitney, Funeral Sermon; Allen, Amer. Biog. (J. C. S.)
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More