Reverend Aaron Jordan Bogue (Booge)

•ID: I03204 •Name: Aaron Jordan Bogue •Sex: M •Birth: 27 NOV 1751 in Farmington, Hartford County, CT •Death: 30 JUN 1826 in New Lebanon, NY Father: Ebenezer Bogue b: 9 MAY 1716 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Newport, CT Mother: Demarius Corintha Cook b: 6 NOV 1726 in New Haven, New Haven County, CT Marriage 1 Grace Thrall •Married: 19 NOV 1778 in Turkey Hill, CT http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=deborahj&...

• Aaron's birth and death information are available at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100106330/aaron-jordan-booge
• The following write-up is available at the above-mentioned URL:
  • "He named his first two sons after Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer. The first died very young, the second, Ulricus Zwinglius Booge, died of typhus at age 16. His grave (name Uterick) is in Granville, Mass., #81154914.
  • "His personal library became the core of the public library.
  • "Ordained East Granby, Conn. 1776.
  • "Chaplain of the Revolution.
  • "Chaplain US Army, 16 Jun 1813-15 Jun 1815 (Creek War).
  • "Chaplain US Army, 3 May 1816 - 14 Apr 1818.
  • "Minister, East Granby 1776-1785.
  • "Minister, West Granville, Mass. Nov 1786 - July 1793.
  • "Minister, Stephentown, NY, 1800-1804.
  • "Opposed revivals of Chas. Finney (ca 1825-1826)in Stephentown.
  • "Rode from New Lebanon, NY to Nashville to join Andrew Jackson for Creek War.
  • "Aaron was said to have become in his later days an infidel. He opposed the revivals of Rev. Charles Finney. According to Finney's "Memoirs" (Chap. XVII) Aaron "died a horrible death and thus his opposition came to an end." This was supposed to have happened during Finney's Stephentown Revival (held after the New Lebanon Convention, July 1827), but Aaron had been dead for over a year."