Backus, Simon (2)

Backus, Simon (2)

a Congregational minister, son of the preceding, graduated at Yale College in 1759; was settled as the first pastor of the Church in Graliby, Mass., in October, 1762; resigned his pastoral charge in March, 1784, and died in 1828, at the age of eighty-seven. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 231.