Strong, Nathan, 1748 - 1816
Reverend Nathan Strong (October 5, 1748-December 25, 1816) was the son of Rev. Nathan Strong and Esther Meacham of Coventry, Connecticut. Strong's grandmother, Esther Williams Meacham, with several members of her family, was captured in a Mohawk raid at Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1704 and brought to Canada. While most of them were released and sent home, Esther's sister, Eunice (renamed Marguerite Kanenstenhawi Arosen), remained at Kahnawake.
A graduate of Yale College in 1769, Strong remained a tutor there until he began preaching to the First Society in Hartford, Connecticut in 1773, where he was ordained the following year. A prolific writer, a principal founder of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, editor of the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine. In 1783, he was a correspondent with Samuel Kirkland and Stephen West about a petition by the Connecticut Indians who had removed to Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
Obituary of Rev. Nathan Strong, D.D., Hartford Courant, December 31, 1816, p. 3. Eunice Kanenstenhawi Williams, Wikipedia. Sources for this biography come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.
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