List of clergy in the American Revolution

This is a list of clergy in the American Revolution:

• Moses Allen, a minister in Midway, Georgia
• James Francis Armstrong, a Presbyterian minister in Trenton, New Jersey
• Francis Asbury, one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States
• Isaac Backus, a Baptist preacher
• Blackleach Burritt, Presbyterian clergyman in New York
• James Caldwell (clergyman), clergyman in New Jersey
• John Carroll (bishop), A Catholic priest in Maryland, later the first Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States and founder of Georgetown University
• Myles Cooper, an Anglican priest in colonial New York
• Manasseh Cutler, an American clergyman, a Congress representative and a founder of Ohio University
• Naphtali Daggett, Presbyterian Church pastor
• Jacob Duché, chaplain to the Continental Congress
• Timothy Dwight IV, a Congregationalist minister, and president of Yale College
• William Emerson Sr., a minister and grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• John Gano, the founding pastor of the First Baptist Church in New York City
• Pierre Gibault, a Jesuit missionary
• Gideon Hawley, a missionary to the Iroquois Indians in Massachusetts
• Samuel Kirkland, a Presbyterian missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora people
• John Larkin (Deacon of Charlestown), a First Congregational Church minister in Charlestown, Massachusetts
• William Linn, the first Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
• Samuel Magaw, clergyman and educator from Pennsylvania
• Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, a Lutheran clergyman and called the "Father of American Entomology"
• Joseph Montgomery, an American Presbyterian minister and a delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania
• Peter Muhlenberg, a clergyman in Pennsylvania
• John Murray (minister), a pioneer minister; sometimes recalled as founder of the Universalist denomination in the United States
• Samuel Phillips Payson, ministered for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts
• Richard Peters (priest), the rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia.
• Joseph Roby, minister of Lynn, Massachusetts' Third Parish (now Saugus) Church. A supporter of American independence who marched to Lexington and served on Lynn's Committee of Safety.
• Samuel Seabury, the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA, and the first Bishop of Connecticut
• John Simpson, Presbyterian minister, Fishing Creek Church, Fishing Creek, SC, graduate of Princeton.^[1]
• Josiah Smith (clergyman), a clergyman in colonial South Carolina who championed the causes of the evangelical style of the Great Awakening and later American independence
• William Smith (Anglican priest), the first provost of the University of Pennsylvania
• Elihu Spencer, invited to North Carolina by that colony's provincial congress to convince loyalist congregations to join the patriot cause
• John Witherspoon, a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. He was both the only active clergyman and college president to sign the Declaration
• David Zeisberger, a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies

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