Patten, William, Dd

Patten, William, D.D.

a Congregational minister, was born. at Halifax, Massachusetts, about 1760, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1780. He was ordained pastor of the Second Church at Newport, R.I., May 24, 1786, dismissed April 15, 1833, and died in 1839. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1:592.