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Sherman, John (Clergyman author was born)

clergyman, author, was born in 1772 in New Haven, Conn.

He was a unitarian clergyman of Trenton Falls, N. Y., where he conducted an academy. From 1797 to 1805 he was a congregational minister at Mansfield, Conn., but resigned his charge on account of his becoming a unitarian. He was the author of One God in One Person Only, the first noteworthy defense of unitarianism in America; Philosophy of Language Illustrated; and A Description of Trenton Falls. He died Aug. 2, 1828, in Trenton Falls, N. Y.