Weston, John Equality

Weston, John Equality a Baptist minister, was born in Amherst, N. H., Oct. 13, 1796. He was licensed to preach in 1822, and in 1827 was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church in East Cambridge, a relation which continued, until his death, July 2, 1831. In 1819, in connection with Mr. True, he started the first Baptist newspaper in America, the Christian Watchman. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 6:713.