Type: | Priest |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Reverend |
Eliphalet Adams | |
Ordination: | February 9, 1709 |
Ordained By: | Gurdon Saltonstall |
Birth Date: | 26 March 1677 |
Birth Place: | Dedham, Massachusetts |
Death Place: | New London, Connecticut |
Alma Mater: | Harvard University |
Eliphalet Adams (pronounced as /əˈlaɪfəlɛt/; March 26, 1677 - October 4, 1753) was an eminent minister of New London, Connecticut. He graduated from Harvard University in 1694.[1] 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 thanksgiving sermon in 1721 and gave a sermon on the death of Gov. Leverett Saltonstall I in 1724.
He spoke at the ordinations of William Gager, May 27, 1725 and Thomas Clap, 1726; and at a discourse before a society of young men in 1727.[2]