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Worcester, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 1, 1770, in Hollis, N. H. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at Salem, Mass., from 1803; and the author of Letters to Dr. Channing on the Unitarian Controversy; and Discourses on the Covenant with Abraham. He died June 7, 1821, in Brainard,. Tenn.

WORCESTER, SAMUEL MELANCH- THON, clergyman, educator, author, was born Sept. 4, 1801, in Fitchburg, Mass.

He was a congregational clergyman, professor of rhetoric at Amherst college in 1825-34, and pastor at Salem, Mass., in 1834-60. He was the author of Essays on Slavery; and Life of Samuel Worcester.

He died Aug. 16, 1866, in Boston, Mass.

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