Eliphalet Adams (; March 26, 1677 — October 4, 1753) was an eminent minister of

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. He graduated from

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in 1694. He was ordained February 9, 1709, and died on October 4, 1753, aged 76. Dr. Chauncy spoke of him as a great "Hebrician". He published a sermon on the death of Rev. James Noyes of Stonington; election sermons, 1710 and 1733; a discourse, occasioned by a distressing storm on March 3, 1717; a

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sermon in 1721 and gave a sermon on the death of Gov.

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in 1724. He spoke at the ordinations of

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, May 27, 1725 and

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, 1726; and at a discourse before a society of young men in 1727.Allen, William. ''An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Imminent Persons in North America From Its First Settlement, and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United States''. 2nd ed. Boston: Hyde, 1832.

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Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889
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