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Asa Hillyer

HILLYER, Asa, clergyman, born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, 6 April, 1763; died in New York, 28 August, 1840. He accompanied his father, who was a surgeon in the Continental army during most of the Revolutionary war, and was afterward graduated at Yale in 1786. He was licensed to preach by the old presbytery of Suffolk, L. I., in 1786, ordained pastor at Madison, New Jersey, in 1789, and in the summer of 1801 was installed as pastor in Orange, New Jersey, where he labored successfully for more than thirty years. He was one of the founders and a director of the United foreign missionary society. In the disruption of the Presbyterian church in 1837 he adhered to the new school. He was a trustee of Princeton from 1811 till his death, and from 1812 until the division of the general assembly one of the directors of its thee-logical seminary. In 1818 Alleghany college conferred upon him the degree of D. D.

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