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Buckminster, Joseph

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 14, 1751, in Rutland, Vt. He was ordained in 1779, as pastor of the North church in Portsmouth, N. H. He published about twenty-five sermons and a short sketch of Dr. McClintock, and was part author of the Piscataqua River Prayer Book. He died June 10, 1812, in Readsboro, Vt.

BUCKMINSTER, JOSEPH STEVENS, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born May 26, 1784, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a talented unitarian clergyman of Boston, and the first appointed lecturer on biblical criticism at Harvard university. He is the author of Sermons, with Memoir by S. C. Thacher. He died June 9, 1812, in Portsmouth, N. H.