Individual Details
Benjamin Doolittle
(10 Jul 1695 - 9 Jan 1749)
Events
| Biographical Sketch | From 1695 to 1749 | Wallingford, New Haven, CT |  |  | |
| Birth | 10 Jul 1695 | Wallingford, New Haven, CT | | ||
| Death | 9 Jan 1749 | |
Families
| Father | John Doolittle (1655 - ) |
| Mother | Mary Peck (1666 - 1710) |
Notes
Biographical Sketch
Benjamin DOOLITTLE, at the age of twenty-one, in 1716, graduated from Yale College. He became a minister of the church at Northfield, MA, and several families followed him to that town. He had been regularly educated as a physician and surgeon, was furnished with books and instruments, and kept a supply of drugs. He combined the professions of theology and medicine, and was thus a very useful man in the community. For seventeen years his pastorate was highly acceptable to the people, after which there was some disaffection, as his extensive and lucrative medical practice was believed by some to interfere with his usefulness as a pastor. During the Indian war his services as a surgeon were of great public benefit. In the thirtieth year of his ministry he passed away on 9 Jan 1749.Endnotes
1. New England Families, Vol. IV, compiler, Connecticut Local and Family Histories, 1600s-1800s (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000).
2. New England Families, Vol. IV, compiler, Connecticut Local and Family Histories, 1600s-1800s (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000).
3. New England Families, Vol. IV, compiler, Connecticut Local and Family Histories, 1600s-1800s (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000).