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**someone from another list confirmed it is not in Sprague so never mind***
I'm trying to find the source for the text below. I would appreciate it very much if someone on the PB who owns Sprague's Annals of the Presbyterian Pulpit (part of the Annals of the American Pulpit series) could check the entry for William Linn (1752-1808) and confirm that the below is from that entry?

He met his wife, Rebecca Blair first at Princeton where her father was Professor of Divinity and where William Linn attended college in company with Aaron Burr, Philip Freneau and James Madison. After graduation and a short term of conducting school in Philadelphia, William Linn was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church, served as a chaplain in the Continental Army, and married Rebecca Blair, before settling as pastor at Big Spring (now Newville) in Pennsylvania"¦.. Seven years later William left Pennsylvania to become President of Washington College in Maryland. Two years later he answered a call to the Presbyterian Church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, but remained there only a few months before receiving, in November, 1786, an invitation to become co-pastor of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church in New York"¦. He became, successively, a Regent of the University of the State of New York, first Chaplain of the House of Representatives and an intimate in the household of General and Mrs. Washington, Acting President for three years of Queens College (Rutgers), and, just before his death in 1808, was elected President of Union College in Schenectady. He was famed as an orator, a liberal theologian, an active ecclesiastical politician, a great writer of pamphlets, and an ardent advocate of church unity.

[Edited on 11-27-2005 by NaphtaliPress]
 
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