Searle, Moses C;

Searle, Moses C;

a Presbyterian minister, was born in Byfield, Mass., Sept. 17,1797. He graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1821, and at the Theological Seminary in that place in 1824; was licensed by the New Brunswick Presbytery, and, going East, began his labors in Grafton, Mass., being ordained by Newburyport Presbytery in 1826 as pastor of the Congregational Church, Grafton. He subsequently labored in New Hartford, N.Y.; Dorset,'Vt.; Haverhill, N. H.; Bradford, and Byfield, Mass., where he died, Dec. 10, 1865. Mr. Searle was a mail of deep piety and affectionate disposition, an excellent pastor and good preacher. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1868, p. 226. (J. L. S.)