"Richardson Miner, son of Elnathan and Rebecca Minor, was baptized in Stonington, Connecticut, February 25, 1704-5. … He studied theology, and when the church was gathered in the village of Unity (now the town of Trumbull), in the northwestern part of Stratford, Connecticut, he was ordained the pastor, on the 18th of November. 1730. He did not sympathize with the prevailing sentiment in Fairfield County with reference to the Great Awakening of 1740; and was thus drawn into association with the Rev. Samuel Johnson (Y. C. 1714), of Stratford, and others who had embraced Episcopacy. His declaration, in February, 1744. of his change of views and of his intention to take orders in the Church of England, led his parishioners to appeal to the Fairfield East Consociation, who declared on the 21st of March that he was by his own act dismissed. The Episcopalians of Stamford and Greenwich joined in desiring to have Mr. Miner, for their minister, and they accordingly helped to defray the expense of sending him to England in June for orders. He was unfortunately taken by the French on his voyage: and after his release, while on his way from Port Louis, in France, to London, was stricken with a fever, and died at Salisbury, probably in the last part of the year 1744, in his 40th year."
