Williston, Payson, Dd

Williston, PAYSON, D.D.

a Congregational minister, was born at West Haven, Connecticut in 1763; graduated at Yale College in 1783; studied theology at New Haven; became pastor at Easthampton, Massachusetts, in 1789 where he remained until 1833. He died there January 30, 1856. He published a Sermon in 1799, a Half-century Sermon in 1839, and contributed several articles to Sprague's Annals of the Amer. Pulpit (volumes 1 and 2).