Joseph Dana (1742–1827) was an American clergyman.

Biography

Joseph Dana was born in

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on November 2, 1742. He was a grandson of Benjamin, the third son of Richard, the progenitor of all that bear the name in the

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, who, according to the family tradition, was the son of a French

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that settled in England in 1629. Joseph was graduated at Yale in 1760, studied theology, and was ordained on November 7, 1765, minister of the South society of Ipswich, over which he presided for sixty-two years. He died in Ipswich, Massachusetts on November 16, 1827.

Works

Many of Dana's occasional discourses were published.

Notes

References

* 1742 births 1827 deaths American clergy People from Pomfret, Connecticut People of colonial Connecticut Yale University alumni {{US-reli-bio-stub