Birdseye, Nathan

Birdseye, Nathan, a Congregational minister, was born in Stratford, Conn., Aug. 19,1714, graduated at Yale 1736, and became pastor of the church in West Haven 1742. He resigned June, 1758, and retired to a farm in the town, where he spent the rest of his life. Once, after he was a hundred years old, he conducted devotional services in the church. He died Jan. 28, 1818.- Sprague, Annals, i, 436.