Daily Baptist EncyclopediaBenedict, Rev. George, a Baptist clergyman, was born in Southeast, Dutchess Co., N. Y.,; April 15, 1795

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Daily Baptist EncyclopediaBenedict, Rev. George, a Baptist clergyman, was born in Southeast, Dutchess Co., N. Y.,; April 15, 1795, and died Oct. 28, 1848. His youthful days were spent with his parents in Danbury, Conn. He united with the Baptist church in that place in the twenty-second year of his age. He was licensed to preach May 12, 1822, and in 1823 was settled and ordained as pastor of the church. He served the church in Danbury eight years, when he accepted the charge of the Stanton Street Bap- tist church, of New York, a new interest of only about 200.members. After ten years the churchhad grown so large, that he went out with a colony and founded a church in Norfolk Street, His la- bors were blessed with great prosperity, but in the height of his power and usefulness, and in the prime of life, he passed away, lamented by all who knew him. He was a natural orator, devoted to his work, social in manner, fervid, zealous, and persuasive. His place was always thronged, and conversions and baptisms were continuous during the seventeen years of his labor in the last-named churches.From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart-

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