Winchell, James Manning

Winchell, James Manning a Baptist minister, was born at North East, Dutchess County, N.Y., September 8, 1791; was converted about 1807; entered Union College in 1808; graduated from Brown University in 1812; was licensed by the Baptist Church at North East, October 4 of the same year; supplied the Baptist Church at Bristol, R.I., during 1813; was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston, Massachusetts, March 30, 1814; and died February 22, 1820. He published an edition of Watts's Psalms and Hymns, with a Supplement, and Two Discourses, Exhibiting an Historical Sketch of the First Baptist Church in Boston from 1665 to 1818 (1819). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 6:595.