Rev Joseph FISH

1705 - 1781  (76 years)

• Name	Joseph FISH  [1]
  	Joseph Fish graduated from Harvard in 1728, received his M.A. in 1731 and began preaching at the North parish of Stonington, Connecticut, in August 1732. He was ordained on 27 December 1732 as the second pastor of the Congregational Church. He was described as a 'tall, light complexioned, sturdy man, impressive, dignified, graceful, suave, affable, kind, and gentle.' The onset of the Great Awakening caused problems for rev. Fish who disagreed with many of the new preachers whom he considered uneducated. He lost two thirds of his congregation in 1746 when Baptist and other churches were formed, but did not accept offers at other churches. Parson Fish worked among the Indians as a representative of the Society for Promoting the Gospel in New England and Parts Adjacent and was later a commissioner for the Scots' Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge among the Indians. For more than a dozen years Fish managed the Indian school in Stonington, and he preached monthly lectures to a congregation of about twenty-five Indian women and children, most of the men having been killed in the army. This congregation, too, deserted him in favor of illiterate Narragansett preachers who regularly came over from Rhode Island. In 1766 he assumed oversight of the school among the Narragansetts at Charlestown, Rhode Island, and he supported Wheelock's Indian school at Lebanon, Connecticut. [1]
  Prefix	Rev
  Birth	28 Jan 1705	Duxbury, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 May 1781  [1]
  Person ID	I88964	Main Tree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2018

  
  

  Family	Rebecca PABODIE,   b. 29 Feb 1703/4, Little Compton, Connecticut d. 27 Oct 1783, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	6 Dec 1732	Little Compton, Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Mary FISH,   b. 19 May 1736   d. 2 Jul 1818, Wallingford, Massachusetts (Age 82 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F36792	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 28 Jan 1705 - Duxbury, Massachusetts Marriage - 6 Dec 1732 - Little Compton, Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S4885] Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations Vol. 16 John Alden Part 1 . [S9214] Richard Anson Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut.