Andrew Storrs


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Andrew Storrs    
 
Born: 20 Dec 1735

 

   
Married: 18 May 1762

 

Died: 02 Mar 1785 Northbury, CT    

FATHER

Samuel Storrs

MOTHER

Mary Warner

WIFE

Abiah Burbank

Biographical Sketches of Yale College
"Andrew Storrs, fifth child and second son of Captain Samuel Storrs, of Mansfield, Connecticut, and grandson of Samuel and Martha (Burge) Storrs, of the same place, was born on December 20, 1735. His mother was Mary, daughter of Andrew Warner. He was a first cousin of Experience Storrs, of the class of 1759, as also of John Storrs, of the class of 1756. He did not enter college until the beginning of the Sophomore year, after little more than a year of preparatory study.
He studied theology and received licensure from the Windham Association of Ministers on May 18, 1762, and in the following year married Abiah (Burbank), widow of the Rev. Freegrace Leavitt (Y. C. 1745), of Somers, Connecticut.
Subsequently, while awaiting for a settlement, he lived in New Haven; and on May 26, 1765, he preached in Northbury Society, in Waterbury, Connecticut, for the first time. In the beginning of July he was invited by a unanimous vote of that Society to continue preaching there, and again a month later to become a candidate for settlement. On September 30 he was unanimously called to become their pastor. On October 28 he accepted the offer - which contemplated an annual salary of 70 pounds - and on November 27 he was ordained and installed by the New Haven Association. He had never been in robust health, and died in office after a long and very distressing illness, on March 2, 1785, in the 50th year of his age, and the 20th of his ministry."

 

 

 

 

 

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