Burrows, Silas a Baptist minister, was born at Fort Hill, in Groton, Conn., in 1741. He was ordained in 1765 pastor of a Church in Groton, and encountered. much opposition from numerous sects in the vicinity. During the Revolutionary struggle he at once boldly espoused the cause of freedom. He lived to see his Church in a flourishing condition, and to witness the adoption of a constitution in Connecticut securing equal, religious privileges to all, for which he earnestly labored. His ministry was favored with several remarkable revivals. He died in 1818. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, vi, 106. Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. p. 169.
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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