Chatterton, Benjamin

Chatterton, Benjamin, a Free-will Baptist minister, was born at Acworth, N. H., in 1778. He was converted hi 1805, and soon began to preach; was baptized among the Methodists, and was a class-leader. In 1823 he connected himself with the Free-will Baptist Church in Middlesex, Vt., and was ordained Feb. 3, 1828. His ministerial work was performed chiefly in his own town and in places adjoining. After a long and painful sickness, borne with much Christian resignation, he died at Middlesex, June 17,1855. See Free-will Baptist Register, 1857, p. 88. (J. C. S.)