Rev. Sylvanus Ripley

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Rev. Sylvanus Ripley

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Death: February 05, 1787 (37)
Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States (A fall from his sleigh)
Place of Burial: Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Jonathan Ripley and Hannah Ripley
Husband of Abigail Ripley
Father of Mary Baylies; Brig. Gen./Rep. Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, USA; Abigail Lyman; Elizabeth Abigail Dana; John Phillips Ripley and 1 other
Brother of Perez Ripley and Hannah Fuller

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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)

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Rev. Sylvanus Ripley's Timeline

1749
September 29, 1749
Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1778
1778
1780
1780
1782
April 15, 1782
Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
1784
April 19, 1784
Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
1787
February 5, 1787
Age 37
Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
1791
1791
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Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States