Usher, John (1)

Usher, John (1)

an American Episcopal minister, was born in 1689; graduated at Harvard College in 1719; studied theology; went to England for holy orders, and returned as missionary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts; and was appointed to the mission at Bristol, R. I. He died at Bristol, April 30,1775.See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 5, 48-50.