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President Naphtali Daggett
- H. President Naphtali Daggett1727 - 1780
- W. Sarah Smith1728 - 1772
m. 19 Dec 1753
Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
President Naphtali Daggett |
| Married Name |
Rev. Naphtali Daggett |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2][3][4][6][7] |
8 Sep 1727 |
Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States |
| Degree[1][3][4] |
1748 |
Yale College. |
| Ordination[3][4] |
18 Sep 1751 |
Smithtown, Suffolk, New York, United StatesFirst minister at Smithtown |
| Occupation[3] |
Bet 1751 and 1755 |
Smithtown, Suffolk, New York, United StatesMinister at Smithtown. |
| Marriage |
19 Dec 1753 |
Smithtown, Suffolk, New York, United Statesto Sarah Smith |
| Other[3] |
1756 |
Appointed first professor appointed at Yale College. |
| Occupation[3][4] |
Bet 1766 and 1777 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesPresident, Yale College |
| Degree[3] |
Jun 1771 |
M. A. 'non tantum Honoris Frgo. set etiam pro Meritis', Harvard College |
| Degree[3][4] |
1774 |
Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Princeton |
| Death[1][2][3][4] |
25 Nov 1780 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Funeral[4] |
27 Nov 1780 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Burial[2][5] |
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Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Reference Number |
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Q6964870 (Wikidata) |
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Naphtali Daggett (September 8, 1727 – November 25, 1780) was an American academic and educator. He graduated from Yale University in 1748. Three years later, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Smithtown, Long Island. In 1755, the Yale Corporation persuaded him to return to New Haven to assist President Thomas Clapp in the pulpit, and to be considered for appointment as a college professor. On March 4, 1756, the Corporation inducted him as Yale's first professor—officially the Livingstonian Professor of Divinity.[1]
Daggett became the college's president pro tempore in 1766 after the resignation of President Clap. Daggett held the office of President for the next eleven years, until 1777.
When the British attacked New Haven in 1779, Rev. Daggett took up arms in defense but was taken prisoner and forced to serve as a guide. He was bayoneted by his captors, and died in 1780.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Naphtali Daggett, in Wikidata.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Daggett, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
2:482.
"Naphtali (Daggett), s. of Ebenezer & Mary (Blackinton), b 8 Sep 1727 (at Attleboro, Mass.), d 25 Nov 1780 (gravestone, City Burial Ground, New Haven); Rev.; Pres. Yale College 1766-1777; …"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Naphtali Daggett, in Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society & New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005)
Harvard:5358-65.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Naphtali Daggett, in Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society & New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005)
Yale:620-23.
- ↑ Rev Napthali Daggett, in Find A Grave.
- ↑ 726. Ebenezer Daggett4, in Doggett, Samuel Bradlee. A history of the Doggett-Daggett family. (Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill, 1894)
101.
"828. Naphtali Daggett,5 born Attleboro', Mass., September 8, 1727."
- ↑ Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Attleborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1934)
90.
"Daggett, … Naphtali, s. Ebenezer and Mary (Blackinton), [born] Sept. 8, 17__."
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