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THAYER Elihu clergyman, born in Braintree, Massachusetts, 29 March, 1747; died in Kingston, New Hampshire, 3 April, 1812. He was graduated at Princeton in 1769, and after a private theological course was settled in 1776 over a Congregational church in Kingston, New Hampshire, where he continued until his death. At the organization of the New Hampshire missionary society he was elected its president, holding office till 1811. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him in 1807 by Dartmouth. He published a sermon at the funeral of Governor Josiah Bartlett (1795), and a "Summary of Christian Doctrines and Duties," by request of the New Hampshire missionary society. A volume of his sermons was published in 1813.
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