Smalley, Henry

Smalley, Henry, a Baptist preacher, was born in Piscataway, N.J., Oct. 23, 1765, and was admitted by baptism to the communion of the Baptist Church there when about sixteen years old. He was educated first at Queen's College, New Brunswick, and then at Princeton, where he graduated in 1786. He was licensed to preach in 1788, and in 1790 he began to preach for the Cohalsey Baptist Church, Cumberland Co., N.J., and on Nov. 8 of the same year was ordained its pastor. In this charge he continued forty-nine years, until removed by death, Feb. 11, 1839. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 6, 281.