Brown, James (1)

Brown, James (1)

a Presbyterian minister, was born in Connecticut. He was licensed by Suffolk Presbytery, and was called to Bridgehampton, and ordained in June 1748. The loss of health compelled him to lay aside his pastoral work in March 1775, and he died April 22, 1788. He was a judicious, spiritual preacher, laborious and successful. See Webster, Hist. of the Presb. Church in America, 1857.