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About Rev. Sylvanus Ripley
Rev. Sylvanus Ripley
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 67631105
Table Stone Inscription - Dartmouth Cemetery: The Reverent Sylvanus Ripley Professor of Divinity at Dartmouth College. A judicious divine of lively apprehension, clear communication, easy address Pious, sentimental, zealous courteous, affable and kind. A Professor, Evangelist, Husband, Parent, Citizen and Friend; greatly beloved and eminently useful. In the middle course of life a wound by a fall the preceeding evening occasioned his death Feby 5th A.D. 1787. Age 38th Reverend Sylvanus Ripley
He studied divinity with Rev. Eleazar Wheelock at Hanover, ordained a missionary in 1772 and went to Caghnawagas (Canada); was a tutor at Dartmouth (1772-1778), Dartmouth trustee (1775-1787); pastor of the Dartmouth College Church in 1779 and Phillips Professor of Theology in 1782, holding the three last positions to the day of his death.
He was the son of Jonathan Ripley and Hannah Sturtevant. He married Abigail Wheelock, daughter of Dartmouth College founder Rev. Eleazar Wheelock
Children:
- John Philips Ripley
- Eleazar Wheelock Ripley
- Mary Ripley married Nicholas Baylies
- Abigail Ripley married Eliphalet Lyman
- Elizabeth Abigail Ripley married Judah Dana
Source: The History of Dartmouth College By Baxter Perry Smith (1878) - Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College: By George Thomas Chapman (1867)
Rev. Sylvanus Ripley's Timeline
1749 |
September 29, 1749
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Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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1778 |
1778
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1780 |
1780
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1782 |
April 15, 1782
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Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
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1784 |
April 19, 1784
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Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
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1787 |
February 5, 1787
Age 37
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Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
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1791
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Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
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