Person:Azarieh Horton (1)

graduated Yale College 1735 age 20 missionary among Long Island Indians 1741-1750. Kept an interesting diary published in Prime's History of Long Island 1751 pastor of Presbyterian church of Bottle Hill, now Madison, N>J> Helped found the College of New Jersey

Rev. Azariah Horton was born in 1715. Graduated from Yale College, 1735. He was appointed a missionary to the Indians, and labored among the tribes on the east end of Long Island, and afterwards in New Jersey, "at the forks of the Delaware," where he was the predecessor of the sainted David Brainerd. In 1751 he became the first pastor of the Church at Bottle Hill (now Madison, New Jersey), where he remained till 1776. The next year there was an epidemic of small pox, and in faithfully laboring for the benefit of the suffering, he contracted the disease, from which he died. He was buried in the cemetery at Bottle Hill, just behind the pulpit of the church in which he preached so long. His tombstone bears the inscription: "In memory of Rev. Azariah Horton. For twenty five years Pastor ofthis church. Died, March 27, 1777, aged 62 years."