Smalley, John, Dd

Smalley, John, D.D., a Congregational minister,. was born in Lebanon, Conn., June 4, 1734; graduated at Yale College in 1756; studied theology under the Rev. Joseph Bellamy; was ordained pastor of the New Britain Society, Berlin, Conn., April 19, 1758; and died June 1, 1820. He was a distinguished theologian, and a faithful and successful preacher. He published, Sermons on Natural and Moral Inability (1769): — Eternal, Salvation not a Just Debt (1785), against John Murray: Concio ad Clerum: At the Election (1800): — Sermons, on Connected Subjects (1803): — Sermons (1814). See, Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1, 559.