Rev Dr Abraham Beach (1740-1828) - Find a Grave Memorial

Rev Dr Abraham Beach

Birth

29 Aug 1740

Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA

Death

11 Sep 1828 (aged 88)

New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA

Burial

Christ Church Episcopal Churchyard

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Rector of the church from 1767-1784. Active in organizing the Episcopal Church in America. Died in his 88th year.

"And lo I am with you alway"

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Rev Abraham Beach D.D

Missionary and Loyalist. Born in Cheshire, Connecticut, Beach graduated from Yale in 1747, became an Episcopalian, and studied for the ministry under Samuel Johnson. He went to England and was ordained deacon on May 17, 1767, and priest on June 14, 1767. He served as a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) at New Brunswick and Piscataway, New Jersey, 1767-1784. He was a Loyalist during the American Revolution, during which he did not officiate and his church was closed. After the war, he played a major role in the church's reorganization of in New Jersey and America. From 1784 to 1811, he was assistant minister at Trinity Church, New York City, and from 1811 to 1813, he was assistant rector there. Beach was elected president of the House of Deputies at the 1801, 1804, and 1808 General Conventions. He retired to New Brunswick in 1813 and died there.
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Sources:
https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/beach-abraham
Burr, Nelson R. The Anglican Church in New Jersey. Philadelphia: Church Historical Society, 1954.