List of Clergy in The American Revolution

This is a list of clergy in the American Revolution:

  • Moses Allen, a minister in Midway, Georgia
  • James Francis Armstrong, a Presbyterian minister in Trenton, New Jersey
  • Francis Asbury, one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States
  • Isaac Backus, a Baptist preacher
  • Blackleach Burritt, Presbyterian clergyman in New York
  • James Caldwell (clergyman), clergyman in New Jersey
  • John Carroll (bishop), A Catholic priest in Maryland, later the first Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States and founder of Georgetown University
  • Myles Cooper, an Anglican priest in colonial New York
  • Manasseh Cutler, an American clergyman, a Congress representative and a founder of Ohio University
  • Naphtali Daggett, Presbyterian Church pastor
  • Jacob Duché, chaplain to the Continental Congress
  • Timothy Dwight IV, a Congregationalist minister, and president of Yale College
  • William Emerson Sr., a minister and grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  • John Gano, the founding pastor of the First Baptist Church in New York City
  • Pierre Gibault, a Jesuit missionary
  • Gideon Hawley, a missionary to the Iroquois Indians in Massachusetts
  • Samuel Kirkland, a Presbyterian missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora people
  • John Larkin (Deacon of Charlestown), a First Congregational Church minister in Charlestown, Massachusetts
  • William Linn, the first Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
  • Samuel Magaw, clergyman and educator from Pennsylvania
  • Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, a Lutheran clergyman and called the "Father of American Entomology"
  • Joseph Montgomery, an American Presbyterian minister and a delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania
  • Peter Muhlenberg, a clergyman in Pennsylvania
  • John Murray (minister), a pioneer minister; sometimes recalled as founder of the Universalist denomination in the United States
  • Samuel Phillips Payson, ministered for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts
  • Richard Peters (cleric), the rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia.
  • Samuel Seabury, the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA, and the first Bishop of Connecticut
  • Josiah Smith (clergyman), a clergyman in colonial South Carolina who championed the causes of the evangelical style of the Great Awakening and later American independence
  • William Smith (Anglican priest), the first provost of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Elihu Spencer, invited to North Carolina by that colony's provincial congress to convince loyalist congregations to join the patriot cause
  • John Witherspoon, a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. He was both the only active clergyman and college president to sign the Declaration
  • David Zeisberger, a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies
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