WATERMAN, Elijah, clergyman, born in Bozrah, New London County, Connecticut, 28 November. 1769; died in Springfield, Massachusetts, 11 October, 1825. His father was a magistrate and an active patriot during the Revolutionary war. The son was graduated at Yale in 1791, taught in Hartford in 1791-'2, studied theology under Timothy Dwight in Greenfield Hill, and under Jonathan Edwards, was licensed to preach in 1793, and in 1794 was installed pastor of a Congregational church in Windham, Connecticut, where he remained until 1804. After supplying the pulpit in New Milford, Connecticut, he became pastor of the church in Bridgeport, of which he held charge until his death. He contributed prose and verse to periodicals, and his other publications include "An Oration before the Society of the Cincinnati" (Hartford, 1794);" A Century Sermon at Wind-ham " (Windham, 1800) ; and "Life and Writings of John Calvin" (Hartford, 1813).