Tucker, John, Dd

Tucker, John, D.D.

a Congregational minister, was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts, September 19, 1719. He graduated from Harvard College in 1741, studied theology with Reverend Paine Wingate, of Amesbury, and was ordained at Newbury, Massachusetts, November 20, 1745, as colleague-pastor with the Reverend Christopher Toppan. His death occurred March 22, 1792. He was the author of several published sermons and controversial pamphlets. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1:451.